Mysore, Oct.7
People who love environment, find a way to preserve it and also create awareness among the laymen on conserving it. Many take out rallies, conduct environment-related programmes, plant saplings and adopt animals. However, a family physician of Virajpet, Kodagu district, has found a unique way of bringing nature closer to mankind — he sends free hand-painted postcards containing wildlife messages to public as part of Wildlife Week.

An avid birder and nature lover, Dr. S.V. Narasimhan has been sending such postcards since 28 years. Author of ‘Feathered Jewels of Coorg,’ a fieldguide to 310 species of birds found in Kodagu, he has been spreading wildlife conservation messages through his unique hand-painted wildlife message cards.

This year, his message is ‘Life on Earth – a Large Extended Family.’ Till now, he has made 56,590 cards with 1,270 this year. About 8,340 people have received his cards all these years.

His Special Wildlife Messenger of this year is the Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyura), a medium-sized, stubby-tailed bird that is mostly seen on the floor of forests or under dense undergrowth, foraging on insects in leaf litter and often more easily detected by their calls. Indian Pittas breed mainly in the Himalayan foothills from northern Pakistan in the west and possibly up to Sikkim in the east. They also breed in the hills of central India and in the northern Western Ghats. They migrate to all parts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka in winter. Their seasonal movements are associated with the monsoon rains. For more such wildlife cards, visit http://drsvnarasimhan.blogspot.com

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / General News / October 07th, 2012