Registrations are invited for Online Webinar on Wildlife Week by Bombay Natural History Society. The webinar will be held on October 2, 2024.

About BNHS

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. It supports many research efforts through grants and publishes the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Many prominent naturalists, including the ornithologists Sálim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley, have been associated with it.

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), a pan-India wildlife research organization, has been promoting the cause of nature conservation since 1883.

The BNHS logo is the great hornbill, inspired by a great hornbill named William, who lived on the premises of the Society from 1894 until 1920, during the honorary secretaryships of H. M. Phipson until 1906 and W. S. Millard from 1906 to 1920.[9] The logo was created in 1933, the golden jubilee year of the Society’s founding.

The Asian waterbird census is an annual exercise undertaken in India by Bombay Natural History Society in association with Wetlands International, in which enthusiastic birdwatchers count the birds by observing them near their respective breeding grounds.The exercise is a part of ‘International waterbird census’, an international exercise. It also aims to create awareness regarding bird species as well as health of the wetlands, which are facing severve threat amidst anthropogenic disturbance. It is conducted in the month of January every year.

Webinar Details

On the occasion of ‘Wildlife Week (2-8 October, 2024)’, the EIACP Programme Centre (PC), Resource Partner (RP) on Avian Ecology at the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS-EIACP) is organizing an online webinar.

Registration is free of charge.

Hurry, only a limited seats are available!

Topic

The Story of the Vanishing Vultures.

Speaker

Dr Kazveen Umrigar, Conservation Breeding Specialist, BNHS.

Date of Webinar

October 2, 2024.

Time

11:00 am – 12:00 noon.

How to Register?

To attend this webinar, kindly join this WhatsApp group.

Contact

Email: eiacp[at]bnhs[dot]org

Click here to view the official notification of Online Webinar on Wildlife Week by Bombay Natural History Society.