Contributor Awards

The Biodiversity Atlas – India Project relies largely on the enthusiastic participation and valuable contributions of the citizen and professional scientists. We recognize these valuable contributions with the following awards, usually given out with accompanying gifts of natural history books, posters, t-shirts, stickers, etc.:

 

BIODIVERSITY ATLAS: award for an extraordinary contribution to biodiversity studies in India through contributions to the BAI's website family.

 

CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR: award for the most number of spot records, species pages or other valuable data in a year (qualify with a minimum of 500 images).

 

CONTRIBUTOR OF THE MONTH: award for the most number of spot records in a month (qualify with a minimum of 200 images).

 


 

2019 AWARDS:

 

Biodiversity Atlas 2019: The Biodiversity Atlas 2019 award winners are: (1) Bhavanarayeni R., for her significant contributions to the species pages of the IUCN Red Listed Indian birds, especially listing and IUCN Red List assessment summaries on individual species pages of all internationally recognized, high-risk bird species of India, (b) Dipendra Nath Basu, for his scientific research on Indian Pierrots (Tarucus spp.) that has clarified the taxonomy and distributions of these butterflies in India, and (c) Nitin R., for his contributions to the field of plant-insect associations, which have enriched the knowledge base on the Butterflies of India website, especially the larval host plants of the Western Ghats butterflies. They will each receive a natural history field guide and the Biodiversity Atlas – India mug as a gift. Congratulations, Biodversity Atlas 2019 winners!

 

Contributor of the Year 2019: Dr. Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan is 2019's Contributor of the Year, with 1,485 images contributed to the Butterflies of India website. Dr. Mahajan will receive a natural history field guide as a gift. Other contributors who qualified (minimum of 500 images contributed in 2019) to be considered for this award were: Rohit Girotra (797 images), Dr. Milind Bhakare (750 images), Nagraj V. (604 images), Raju Kasambe (582 images), and Fahim Khan (566). All their images, and images contributed by dozens others (total of 13,778 images in 2019), help us map the spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence of Indian butterflies. Thank you all!

 

Contributor of the Month 2019: The awardees for the Butterflies of India website are:

 

January 2019: Dr. Milind Bhakare (339 images)

 

April 2019: Rohit Girotra (203 images)

 

May 2019: Dr. Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan (323 images). Other contributors who qualified for this month: Nagraj V. (265 images); Shyamal Debnath (237 images)

 

September 2019: Dr. Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan (362 images). Other contributors who qualified for this month: Fahim Khan (214 images)

 

October 2019: Raju Kasambe (218 images). Other contributors who qualified for this month: Dr. Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan (214)

 

November 2019: Dr. Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan (208 images)

 


 

2018 AWARDS:

 

Contributor of the Year 2018: Rohan Lovalekar is 2018's Contributor of the Year, with 1,336 images contributed to the Birds of India website. Congratulations, Rohan! Other heavy contributors were Amol Bapat (806 images), Rohit Girotra (597 images), Tushar Bhagwat (594 images), and Tushar Dixit (540 images).

Contributor of the Year for the Butterflies of India website will be declared soon.

 

Contributor of the Month 2018: Each award winner will get a Biodiversity Atlas – India mug or a natural history book as a gift. Congratulations, award winners!

 

November 2018: Rohan Lovalekar (260 images, for the Birds of India website)

 

October 2018: Rohan Lovalekar (362 images, for the Birds of India website)

 

March 2018: Amol Bapat (206 images, for the Birds of India website)

 

February 2018: Fahim Khan (242 images, for the Butterflies of India website), and Amol Bapat (269 images, for the Birds of India website)

 

January 2018: Fahim Khan (336 images, for the Butterflies of India website). Other people who qualified: Firos A. K. (115 images), and Divakar Thombre (109 images).

 


 

2017 AWARDS:

 

Biodiversity Atlas 2017: Award shared by Dr. Saji K. (4,273 images), Dr. Milind Bhakare (2,612 images), Paresh Churi (2,118 images), and Hemant Ogale (2,098 images) for their outstanding contribution to documentation of the early stages and larval host plants of Indian butterflies, through the Butterflies of India website. They will each receive a natural history field guide as a gift. Congratulations, Biodversity Atlas 2017 winners!

 

Contributor of the Year 2017: Nagraj V. is 2017's Contributor of the Year, with 388 images contributed to the Butterflies of India website. He makes the Bengaluru Butterfly Club proud! Nagraj will receive a copy of the new Butterflies of Uttarakhand book as a gift. His contribution beat that of Rohit Girotra (324 images), Dattaprasad Sawant (279 images), Arun Lal (215 images), Tushar Bhagwat (214 images), and Firos A. K. (212 images). However, all their images help us map the spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence of Indian butterflies.

 

Contributor of the Month 2017: Each award winner will get a Biodiversity Atlas – India mug as a gift. Congratulations, award winners!

 

June 2017: Nagraj V. (200 images, for the Butterflies of India website)

 

November 2017: Arun Lal (203 images, for the Butterflies of India website)

 

 

Contribute to the growth of natural history and biodiversity studies in India, compete for the awards, and win attractive natural history-related gifts!