Mr. Prateek More

Mr. Prateek is CEO of Sahyadri Sankalp Society and has devoted himself for study and conservation of birds, butterflies, mammal and reptiles. He has worked in ‘Save Pangolin Project’ in which study was carried out on existence and biology of Indian pangolin in Ratnagiri district with help of trap cameras. Awareness drive was also completed in more than 250 schools and colleges in district. He is also doing trap camera surveys of various areas in Sangamewshwar Tehsil for the presence of various animals like Indian Gaurs, Dholes, leopards, Sambhar deer etc. entering in villages which results in human animal conflict. He has setup butterfly garden with many host and nectar plants and more than 60 butterfly species. He has studied butterfly species diversity in Devrukh region and observations are published on butterflies of India website. He is also part of diversity surveys of laterite plateau. He is also member of Devrukh Municipal Corporation Biodiversity Committee which is working on Public biodiversity register. His many articles on floral and ecological diversity of laterite plateau in konkan region are published in newspapers. He has been featured in documentaries made by maha MTB channel on rocky plateau. He is also active on social media for documentation of biodiversity of the Western Ghats and Konkan region. He is also working on book pictorial guide of butterflies of konkan and biodiversity of sada in Rajapur. He has also published research papers on biodiversity of Western Ghat.

Young, enthusiastic people with aim to work for ‘Sustainable Nature Conservation and Livelihood Protection’ come together and decided to establish dedicated NGO viz. Sahyadri Sankalp Society. Above three and other members of Sahyadri Sankalp Society are working in great biodiversity hotspot area of Western Ghat without any financial support. They are also participating in Climate Ambassador and other projects of Srushtidnyan in areas of environment conservation and education. Team of Srushtidnyan supported in registration considering view to promote local youth in Konkan. Before and after registration of Sahyadri Sankalp Society, the team is working on various innovative and need based, ground action oriented projects. This small, emerging NGO require your support for protection of habitat and biodiversity of Western slope of Sahyadri ranges assuring sustainable livelihood to rural people from Konkan.