HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO ODONATA BIOLOGY, AND HELP PROTECT AND CONSERVE THEM?

We frequently receive queries as to what you—as a citizen and a non-specialist—can do to help this Odonata of India citizen science project or Dragonfly and Damselfly conservation in general. Below are some thoughts about what you can do.

If you are not an experienced butterfly-watcher yet but if you have a decent DSLR camera, then contributing your images and other odonata observations to this website is one of the most effective things that you can do to help the growth of odonata biology, education and conservation. We will be launching a mobile app near future. You could use that to start monitoring butterflies in your area, which has tremendous conservation and research value. Please follow the Odonata of India Facebook group for further news on the app when it is launched.

If you are part of a group such as an NGO that could organize any activities, then you could conduct outreach programmes in local schools and colleges, take people on butterfly-watching trails, and spread the message of odonata conservation.

If you are a specialist in some ways: a civil engineer, a forest officer, member of a nature NGO, then email us, we can suggest some more things that you can do to help odonata conservation, education and outreach.

Everyone can do more, but you can at least start with one of the above suggestions.

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Joshi, S., D. Sawant, and K. Kunte 2024. HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO ODONATA BIOLOGY, AND HELP PROTECT AND CONSERVE THEM? . In (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. . Indian Foundation for Butterflies.