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• PGS Orientation Meeting in Mavanatham
  Organic certification was one of the Benefits in Conservation Agreement. Hence a meeting was called to create an awareness about PGS certification and the process, procedures.
• Village Communities Signing Conservation Agreement
  After 7 months of continous engagement phase with the 6 villages, few from each village came forward to be part of the conservation agreement. In consensus with the all the villages,a date was fixed to sign the agreement. This is the picture from that event and one individual from a family signed the agreement, and Robert Leo signed as a representative from Keystone Foundation.
• Conservation Agreement Designing Phase, Ramaranai
  This was a photograph taken during desiging phase of conservation agreement. After CA was drafted, the people who are ready to proceed with the agreement were got together and the photograph was taken. Ramaranai was the only kurumba village amongst other 5 irula villages under Conservation Agreement. Also this was the only village where whole village agreed to be part of conservation agreement.
• Conservation Agreement Designing Phase, Mavanatham
  This was a photograph taken during desiging phase of conservation agreement. After CA was drafted, the people who are ready to proceed with the agreement were got together and the photograph was taken. Mavanatham wanted to try with very few people in the beginning and later on many added in.
• Conservation Agreement Designing phase, Itterai
  This was a photograph taken during desiging phase of conservation agreement. After CA was drafted, the people who are ready to proceed with the agreement were got together and the photograph was taken. Itterai was one of the toughest village to handle in terms of getting together people. As houses are very far and in different directions.
• Conservation Agreement Designing phase, Galidhimbam
  This was a photograph taken during desiging phase of conservation agreement. After CA was drafted, the people who are ready to proceed with the agreement were got together and the photograph was taken. Galidhimbam had too many doubts in the beginning around conservation agreements. In the later times, Senior people like Anita came in and settled the doubts to take ahead the conservation agreement.
• Conservation Agreement Designing phase, Thadasalatty
  This was a photograph taken during desiging phase of conservation agreement. After CA was drafted, the people who are ready to proceed with the agreement were got together and the photograph was taken. Thadasalatty showed much enthusiasm though in the pic not all people are present.
• water resource map of Thadasalhatty
  It is a map of water bodies found in Thadasalhatty village.They are natural springs located inside village and bordering Forest.The reason to make the water inventory and map was to see how water conservation works can be taken up under conservation agreements.
• water resource map of Galidhimbam
  It is a map of water bodies found in the Galidhimbam Village.They are natural springs locate inside village and bordering forest. The reason to make the water inventory and map was to see how water conservation works can be taken up under conservation agreements.After the map was created, in Galidhimbam from Governement in total 8 water bodies were supported like wells and checkdams, which are not captured in the map.
• Water resource map of Mavanatham
  It is a map of water bodies found in the Mavanatham Village. They are natural springs locate inside village and bordering forest. The reason to make the water inventory and map was to see how water conservation works can be taken up under conservation agreements.
• Water resource map of Itterai
  It is a map of water bodies found in the Itterai Village. They are natural springs and few are located near to naeri trees specifically.There is checkdam also mentioned in the map which were built long back. The reason to make the water inventory and map was to see how water conservation works can be taken up under conservation agreements.
• Beans field in Itterai
  It is a beans field in the month of May, which is the first season of agricultural season known as chitra maasa. Beans is the commercial crop grown in the area. It is mainly rainfed. Seeds are bought from market.
• Poster on fauna of wetlands
• Poster on flora of wetlands
• Poster on Happy Valley Springshed Restoration_English, Tamil
• Posters on Hydrogeology of the region (3 nos)
• Poster on Water Security Plan - Bilingual
• Photo Stories by Barefoot Ecologists - Bejalatty
  BEJALATTY Bejalatty is part of the Dhimbam group of villages in the Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve. The village currently comprises about 65 families from the Irula community. The residents of Bejalatty practice agriculture and animal grazing, apart from other livelihood opportunities such as wage labour, collection of Non-Timber Forest Produce such as Pheonix loureirii (seemar pul/eecham), Honey (jenu), cannarium strictum (dhupa), etc. The most commonly harvested agricultural produce from this village includes millets and beans. Muthusamy and Vellasami are the Barefoot Ecologists from this village and have been monitoring a transect route in the forests close to their village. The following photographs have been clicked by them during the course of their monitoring through the transect routes, and their stories have been annotated by Vijeyan.
• Bear-proof stand for Beehive
• Bee Museum - Opening Ceremony
  The Bee Museum, Ooty was opened in 2006
• Triumfetta Pilosa
• jasminum sp
• heliotropium indicem
• Jasminum grandiflorum
• cynoglossum furcatum