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Global Tiger Day Celebration: Team Roar |
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Every year on 29th July, Global Tiger Day is celebrated aimed at raising awareness on conservation of Tigers. These magnificent creatures are the largest species of cat with iconic stripes on their robust body. Within last century, tiger population declined dramatically by 97% and in 2010 only 3200 wild tigers were left. Thus, in 2010 governments of 13 tiger range countries set an ambition to double the population (T*2) of this endangered species by 2022. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nepal has an ongoing The Generation Green (TGG) Campaign which aims to engage, motivate and empower 500 thousand Nepalese youths in conservation sector within 5 years of time (2014- 2018). As such, on 19th and 20th June, 2016 TGG organized Youth Leadership Development Program at Hetauda, Nepal. A group of 11 students from Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) actively participated in the training. I and my friend Ashish Niraula led the team (both of us had worked as Mentees of TGG Mentorship Program in 2015) which later transformed into TEAM ROAR. Team ROAR organized series of event for a week to celebrate Global Tiger Day involving huge mass of university students. The events organized on each day were: 21st July, Panipuri Fellowship at Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) where 40 participants were divided in 5 groups namely Tigers, NGOs/INGOs, Buffer Zone, Government & Students/Activist. This was a role playing game, each team had to represent the name they were assigned, for instance the group Tiger had to say things from the perspective of Tiger. (PS: Panipuri is a street snack, sour, hot and salty in taste) 27th July, 2nd Panipuri Fellowship at Balkumari College of Science where similar activities were repeated. Also, the team members travelled to different places of Chitwan, interacted with people in campus and outside on the road, asked questions about Tiger conservation like What do you think should be done for conserving Tiger? Or Should Tiger be conserved? Or what do you think are the major threats for tiger? The footage was used as content for online awareness campaign and published in Team ROAR?s faebook page. 29th July, Flash Mob was performed on the song ROAR by Katy Perry, in the middle of street targeting the people working in the shops, pedestrians and the residents. Public were curious about the arts performers were displaying and their objectives. The team members explained their motive behind the Flash Mob and gained appreciation as well. Wall painting of tiger was done simultaneously on the same day on the walls of District Development Committee (DDC), Chitwan by volunteer Ms. Nisha Shrestha (a student of Fishery Science at AFU). Formal Closure of the campaign was hosted at AFU, Conference hall where Associate Professor Dr. Krishna Kafle, was invited as chief guest. Video presentation was done about the activities accomplished and remarks by chief guests on the role of youths in tiger conservation. Additionally, I and my friend Ashish were honored with Certificate of Appreciation for mentoring TEAM ROAR in diverse aspects. It was definitely a blissful moment to be treasured by junior brothers and sisters as their mentor and source of inspiration. |
        
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Thumbs up for team Rora's activities and congratulation for what you've earned. cheers!
Posted 31-08-2016 10:54
Wow Bindu, I (and of course other ambassadors as well) sincerely support you and your team Roar. Thanks for sharing us your work, and have a great day!
Posted 27-08-2016 14:41
@Arushi sister, your warm comment is always encouraging for me :) Indeed I am thankful to WWF Nepal for its TGG campaign solely focused on empowering youth generation for conservation. Thank you for going through the article and putting your kind comment :)
Posted 26-08-2016 20:34
Really love the idea of doing a flash mob as an awareness campaign! Great to see this effort in Nepal and if more people in Bangladesh can get inspired from this, it'll greatly help draw attention towards the swiftly dwindling Royal Bengal Tiger Population. Thanks for sharing!!
Posted 26-08-2016 02:56
Wow! Team ROAR rocks! I really liked the idea of flash mob to target the public about dwindling tiger population.Keep up the great work Bindu!
Posted 25-08-2016 21:23
@Diamond Thank you for going through the report and kind support to team ROAR :)
Posted 25-08-2016 13:15
@Rahul brother, yeah exactly Thumbs up to TEAM ROAR!
Posted 25-08-2016 13:14
Dear Rohan, thank you so much for your kind comment. It is so encouraging to see the efforts for Tiger conservation is taking the right path and the number of tigers are increasing in the last decade. I highly appreciate the joint efforts of India and Nepal :)
Posted 25-08-2016 13:06
Very nice job Bindu and Team
Posted 25-08-2016 02:45
Wow! I'm simply amazed! Keep up the Good Work Team Roar! I wish you the very best:)
Posted 24-08-2016 23:07
It's really nice that World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nepal has ' The Generation Green (TGG)' Campaign to empower youth and promote conservation. Glad that both of you mentored the team so nicely. Congrats for the honour. truly deserving.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and the way 'Global Tiger Day' was celebrated there through variety of activities. Such campaigns/initiatives sure go a long way in positively impacting people and educating them about need to conserve wild life (in this case Tigers).
Posted 24-08-2016 18:44
It is always great to see university students putting their lessons to practice and getting exposure through some initiatives. Great job on signing up as a mentor and congrats too
Posted 24-08-2016 17:56
Congrat Team Roar for continuous support in protecting the wildlife..
Posted 24-08-2016 17:54
Congratulations for such incredible effort by team roar
Posted 24-08-2016 16:44
Dear Bindu Di, Congrats to you & Team ROAR on the successfully conducting of 'Roaring for the Tigers' event on Global Tiger Day. Tiger population has shown an increase, first time in the past century. The combined global efforts particularly in India & Nepal have been fruitful.
Posted 24-08-2016 16:07