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Academic & Training Activities (2003-2004) :

  • IX M.Sc. (Wildlife Science) The IX M. Sc. course commenced from 15th July, 2003.

  • XXV Post Graduate Diploma Course Commenced, September 1, 2003-May 31, 2004

  • XIX Certificate Course in Wildlife Management, November 1, 2003 to January 31, 2004

  • Asia Regional Workshop on ‘Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Climate Change’ April 6-11, 2003.

  • First Training Workshop on Wildlife Protection, Law & Forensic Science for the Inspectors of Central Excise  & Customs, April 28-29, 2003.  

  • A Workshop on “Healthcare Management of Wild Animals in Zoos”, New Delhi, May 7-9, 2003.

  •  Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Children, May 8–June 4, 2003.

  • One-week Capsule Course in Wildlife Management for IFS Officers, June 23-27, 2003.

  • Workshop on Development of Strategic Action Plan for Wildlife Management and ex situ Conservation in Himachal Pradesh, Hotel Holiday Home, Shimla, August 8, 2003.

  • “Development of ex-situ Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Himachal Pradesh”, August 8-9, 2003.

  • Course on Wildlife Protection, Law & Forensics for the Inspectors of Customs & Central Excise, September 1-2, 2003.

  • Workshop on ‘Capacity Building for Ecotourism’ for senior forest officers and officers from Agriculture, Horticulture, Tourism etc. Departments, Government of Tripura, SIPARD, Agartala, Tripura, September 4-6, 2003.

  • Course on Wildlife Protection, Law & Forensics for the Indian Customs & Central Excise Officers (Group “A” Promoted), September 18-19, 2003.

  • Terai Arc Tiger Conservation Landscape Workshop, November 6-7, 2003

  • A Two day training course on Wildlife Protection, Law and Forensics for IC&CES officers  (Group “A”- Promoted) November 25-26, 2003.

  • A Two-day training course on Wildlife Protection, Law and Forensics for Inspectors of Customs & Central Excise, December 5-6, 2003.

  • XVII Annual Research Seminar, December 8-9, 2003.

  • Study tour of Officers from Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka, December 20, 2003 to January 21, 2004

  • A Two-day training course on Wildlife Protection, Law and Forensics for IC&CES officers  (Group “A”-Promoted), January 27-28, 2004.

  • Three-week Special Training Course in Wildlife Management for Forest Range Officers of Northeastern States/UTs Kaziranga National Park, Assam, February 9-28, 2004.

  • Planning Workshop on National Natural Resource Management System (NNRMS) Project ‘Mapping of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries’, February 19-20, 2004

  • Training Workshops on “Health Monitoring of Free Ranging Wild Animals” and “Wildlife Immobilization  & Restraint”, February 23-25, 2004 and March 8-10, 2004.

  • 7th Special Short Term Course on Wildlife Protection, Law and Forensics for the probationers of Indian Customs & Central Excise Service, Group “A” (55th Batch), February 23 –March 5, 2004.

Meetings, Workshops and Conferences:

  • International training course, Economic Tools for Ecosystem Conservation, Ben Lomond, California, June 1-14, 2003

  • IUCN-WCPA-South Asia preparatory workshop for the World Parks Congress, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 18-21, 2003

  • First International Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, July 27-30, 2003.

  • XIX International BioAcoustics congress, Belem, Para, Brazil, August 10-15, 2003.

  • "Linking mountain diversity with fire, grazing and erosion", II GMBA Symposium, La Paz, Bolivia, August 20-23, 2003.

  • XII World Forestry Congress, Quebec City, Canada, September 21-28, 2003.

  • Course on Recent advances in cold water aquaculture, Palampur, H.P., September 21–October 2, 2003

  • 9th meeting of Expert Group on Eastern and Western Ghats, New Delhi, 21-22 October 2003.

  • 9th meeting of the Project Elephant Steering Committee, New Delhi, December 22, 2003.

  • Meeting on Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephant (MIKE), New Delhi, December 23, 2003.

  • 3rd International Wildlife Management Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 1-5, 2003.

  • 49th All India conference of Indian Library Association (ILA), Jhansi, U.P.,  Dec. 29, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2004.

  • XXIV All India conference of Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Dehradun, Uttaranchal, December 15-18, 2003. 

  • Workshop on ‘Methods in Behavioural Ecology’, Bangalore, January 12-24, 2004.  

  • Vulture Recovery Plan Workshop, Parwanoo, H.P., February 12-14, 2004.

  • VII World Bamboo Congress, Hotel Ashoka, New Delhi, February 28-March 4, 2004.

  • International workshop on Webometrics, Infometrics and Scientometrics, Roorkee, March 2-5, 2004.

  • Training Workshop on Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites, Hiroshima, Japan, March 8-12, 2004.

  • Workshop on Wildlife Rehabilitation, March 23-25, 2004.

  • Meeting of the Expert Committee, March 25, 2004

Other activities:

  • Celebration of International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22, 2003

  • Celebration of World Environment Day, June 5, 2003.

  • Van Mahotsav, July 29, 2003

  • Wildlife Week celebrations, October 2-8, 2003

  • Visit of Members of National Forestry Commission to WII, January 23, 2004

Important Field Visits:

  • Exchange visits to University of Tromso, Norway, April - May 2003

  • Task: Ecological Attributes of Vegetation in Nanda Devi National Park, June 8-July19, 2003.

  • Ad-hoc Board Meeting, June 14, 2003.

  • Biodiversity Monitoring in Nanda Devi National Park, June 20-July 7, 2003.

Training attended by ENVIS team members:

  • Training programme on Website Development & E-Governance, Dehradun(FRI)from 13th March to 15th March 2003.

  • Introduction to World Wide Web

  • Introduction to different components of HTML,DHTML

  • Introduction to Front Page, Web Designing

  • Hands on Training on Adobe Photoshop for Multimedia designing

  • Hands-on-training on Style sheet, images, flash , JavaScript

  • Database Management

  • Hands on Training on Architecture of Database, Connectivity, RDBMS, ADO