Rangaswamy Peak trek
24 enthusiastic trekkers started the trail from Kil Kotagiri to Rangaswamy peak on a crisp morning on the 4th of May. The trail started off through some verdant evergreen forests that were slowly replaced by tea gardens and later elephant grasses and ferns that were interspersed by Nelli (Indian gooseberry) trees. A greater part of […]
Nilgiri Traditional Food Festival’2013
A traditional food fair was organized by the NNHS at McIver Villa, Coonoor. The focus of the fair was millets, a grain that was once so popular in the Nilgiris that it occupied over 10,000 acres of cultivated land before the advent of the green revolution. This grain now covers less than 1000 acres. A […]
Camfort School visit
Eighteen students from the Camfort International School visited the Bee Museum on the 16th of February as part of their educational field trip. The children learnt about the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve through a presentation by Sumin George of the Keystone Foundation followed by the screening of the movie ‘A fragile treasure.’ Following lunch they took […]
Gaur In My Garden
A documentary film titled Gaur in my garden was screened at the Bee Museum on the 14th of February. This documentary film, directed by Rita Banerji follows the Indian Gaur; a large ungulate whose loss of habitat has caused an increase in human-gaur interactions and has subsequently led to rise in the number of conflicts. […]
World Wetland Day’ 2013
To mark the World Wetland Day, the Nilgiri Natural History Society organized a conservation education programme in Kotagiri. Over 40 children from three schools participated – Blue Mountain, Hillford and CSI. The day began with an introductory talk by Sumin George of Keystone Foundation, with a focus on hill wetlands of the Nilgiris. He also […]
A talk on ecology, management, conservation and welfare of the Asian Elephant
A talk on ecology, management, conservation and welfare of the Asian Elephant was organized by the Nilgiri Natural History Society (NNHS) at the Bee Museum on the 19th of December. The speaker Mr Surendra Varma an expert on welfare of the Asian elephant used a slide show to illustrate the issues faced by these magnificent […]
Taranadmund trail
On the 22nd of December about ten participants started the trail from Taranadmund, a characteristic Toda settlement that can be accessed via the Ooty-Gudalur road. Tarannadmund is a vast wetland-grassland complex high in biodiversity. The trail began through dense wattle plantations bodering the village before opening up to pristine sholas and small watering holes. […]
Elephant conservation education-Pillur
A workshop on Elephant conservation was organized by the NNHS on the 20th of November at the Government School in Pillur. Around 30 students from Standard 8 and 9 participated in this workshop. The event started with the screening of a movie on Elephants followed by an interactive presentation by Sudhakar and Madhesh who have […]
“Early communication systems in human-elephant conflict management”
A talk on early communication and warning systems in human-elephant conflict management was held at the Bee museum on the 4th of December. The speaker Dr Anand Kumar, a wildlife scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) at Valparai started the talk by emphasizing the importance of involving the local communities in the management of […]
Mullur-Mandarai trail
This nature trail through the eastern slopes of the Nilgiris covered a total distance of 15km through varying landscapes. A group of about ten participants started the walk from Mullur through some tea gardens, which were gradually replaced by evergreen forests past the Glenburn estates. From here the group walked to Vellaricombai, a Kurumba settlement […]
