User:Jmgarg1
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The Fauna Barnstar | |
| Keep up the good work, Gargji. AshLin (talk) 20:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC) |
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India Barnstar of National Merit | |
| For all your tireless efforts to record India's Butterflies and Birds. You do an amazing job. Keep up the good work!!! Wayne Ray User:WayneRay |
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The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar | |
| For User:Jmgarg1 for his many pictorial contributions to Wikiproject Lepidoptera. AshLin (talk) 09:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC) |
He is a passionate naturalist & a wildlife photographer. He has been trekking a lot since last 15 years. His is creating awareness about our Trees & Plants, winged friends (Birds), Butterflies, etc. in particular & nature around us in general.
He had published a book called 'A Photoguide to the birds of Kolkata & Common birds of India'.
He had held few Exhibitions mainly focusing on Bird Photography.
He is the owner of 'Indiantreepix' - a google group http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en, (around 958 members on 16/8/09), the largest e-group in India (around 8000 messages in first 7 months of 2009), which is dedicated to discussion on Indian Flora along with creating a Database of Indian Flora.
He is currently working on 'Wikiproject Lepidoptera' & 'WikiProject Birds' & contributing to 'Tree of Life Wikiproject' of Wikipedia. He has uploaded thousands of his best images of Birds, Buttterflies, Plants etc. (more than a thousand species) in Wikimedia Commons, which can be seen at (arranged alphabetically & place wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg
Thousands of his images are used in Wikipedia & Wikispecies & can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jmgarg1 & http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jmgarg1 respectively.
He can be contacted at jmgarg1@gmail.com.
