{ "about": "Every photograph on sewango.in was taken by SEWA Gondia's own field team. EXIF metadata, including GPS coordinates, is stripped from all published images.", "generated": "2026-09-08T12:31:45+00:00", "count": 80, "photographs": { "tiger-camera-trap-nagzira": { "file": "sewa/tiger-camera-trap-nagzira.jpg", "caption": "A tiger on a dry nala bed inside the Nagzira core, recorded by one of SEWA's camera-trap stations. Traps run on a fixed rotation through the survey season and every frame is logged with station, date and species.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Camera trap monitoring", "taken_on": "2023", "place": "Nagzira, Gondia district" }, "leopard-camera-trap": { "file": "sewa/leopard-camera-trap.jpg", "caption": "A leopard on the same trap line at night. Leopard, sloth bear, honey badger and tiger all use these routes; the trap record is what turns that into evidence the Forest Department can act on.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Camera trap monitoring", "taken_on": "2023", "place": "Nagzira, Gondia district" }, "tiger-camera-trap-2023": { "file": "sewa/tiger-camera-trap-2023.jpg", "caption": "Station SEWA3, 25 August 2023. The timestamp and station name printed on every frame are what let a sighting be placed, dated and compared season to season.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual report images", "taken_on": "2023-08-25", "place": "Navegaon–Nagzira landscape" }, "tiger-corridor-road": { "file": "sewa/tiger-corridor-road.jpg", "caption": "A tiger crossing a road inside the corridor. This is the moment the whole dispersal study is about — where a route survives, animals keep moving between reserves; where it is cut, a population becomes an island.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: corridor & dispersal study", "place": "Navegaon–Nagzira corridor" }, "camera-trap-install": { "file": "sewa/camera-trap-install.jpg", "caption": "Setting a camera-trap station on a dispersal route. Placement, height and angle are fixed so that counts from one season can be compared with the next.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: corridor & dispersal study", "place": "Navegaon–Nagzira landscape" }, "malguzari-tank-machan": { "file": "sewa/malguzari-tank-machan.jpg", "caption": "An observation machan on one of the Malguzari tanks. These pre-colonial irrigation tanks now carry much of the landscape's wetland biodiversity, and are watched from platforms like this through the census season.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2017-18", "taken_on": "2017-08-22", "place": "Malguzari tank system, Gondia district" }, "buffer-village-paddy-walk": { "file": "sewa/buffer-village-paddy-walk.jpg", "caption": "A village group walking their own paddy during a field session. In the buffer villages the work is not done to people but with them — self-help groups, response teams and livelihood training all start in conversations like this one.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2017-18", "taken_on": "2017-08-23", "place": "Buffer villages, Gondia district" }, "forest-fire-night": { "file": "sewa/forest-fire-night.jpg", "caption": "Beating out a ground fire at night in the dry season. Fire watch and mitigation is one of the four things the field team does inside the core, and the season runs from February to June.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2017-18", "taken_on": "2018-03-21", "place": "Navegaon–Nagzira landscape" }, "joint-inspection-forest-dept": { "file": "sewa/joint-inspection-forest-dept.jpg", "caption": "A joint field inspection with Forest Department staff. SEWA works alongside the department in three districts rather than around it, which is why its records feed into departmental decisions.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2017-18", "taken_on": "2017-11-02", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-flock-field-edge": { "file": "sewa/sarus-flock-field-edge.jpg", "caption": "A flock of Sarus Cranes at a field edge in Gondia district. Birds gather like this outside the breeding season; through the monsoon they scatter into the paddy to nest.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-rescue-field": { "file": "sewa/sarus-rescue-field.jpg", "caption": "Recovering an injured Sarus Crane from a harvested field. Rescue and rehabilitation runs alongside the monitoring: reptiles, birds and mammals together came to 98 animals in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "blackbuck-nntr": { "file": "sewa/blackbuck-nntr.jpg", "caption": "A male blackbuck in the Navegaon–Nagzira landscape. Grassland species counts run alongside the tiger work, because the same grazing and fire pressures decide both.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Navegaon–Nagzira landscape" }, "census-team-tank": { "file": "sewa/census-team-tank.jpg", "caption": "A survey team on a tank bank at the start of a count. The census is run by volunteers — 128 people took part in the 2023-24 Sarus count across Gondia and Balaghat.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-flock-paddy-edge": { "file": "sewa/sarus-flock-paddy-edge.jpg", "caption": "Sarus Cranes in the farmed landscape of Balaghat, across the state line from Gondia. The 2026 count put 50 birds on the Balaghat side and 32 in Gondia — one population, two states.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Balaghat Sarus conservation activities", "taken_on": "2022", "place": "Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh" }, "nala-check-dam": { "file": "sewa/nala-check-dam.jpg", "caption": "Building a sandbag check dam across a forest nala. Structures like this hold water later into the summer, which is what decides whether wildlife can move through the corridor at all in May and June.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2022-23, water source rejuvenation", "taken_on": "2023-03-28", "place": "NNTR buffer, Gondia district" }, "tendu-leaf-bundles": { "file": "sewa/tendu-leaf-bundles.jpg", "caption": "Tendu leaves tied into bundles and laid out to dry. Collection is the biggest cash earner of the year for households on the forest edge, and SEWA runs the workshops that keep the harvest sustainable.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia district" }, "corridor-walk-waterhole": { "file": "sewa/corridor-walk-waterhole.jpg", "caption": "A corridor walk at Jambdhi during Wildlife Week, at a solar-pumped waterhole. The walks put forest staff, students and villagers on the same ground on the same morning.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Wildlife Week 2019, Corridor Walk Jambhadi", "taken_on": "2019-10", "place": "Jambdhi, Gondia district" }, "sammelan-felicitation": { "file": "sewa/sammelan-felicitation.jpg", "caption": "A Sarus Mitra receiving his field kit at the annual sammelan. The gathering is where the farmers whose fields hold nests are recognised in front of the district — 55 attended in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Sarus Mitra Sammelan", "taken_on": "2019", "place": "Gondia" }, "wetland-restoration-community": { "file": "sewa/wetland-restoration-community.jpg", "caption": "Villagers clearing invasive growth from a tank bed. Restoration here is manual, seasonal and done by the people who use the tank — 19 waterholes were rejuvenated in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: wetland restoration work", "taken_on": "2018-04", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-mural-children": { "file": "sewa/sarus-mural-children.jpg", "caption": "A village wall in Gondia district: \"सारस पक्षी हा शेतकऱ्यांचा खरा मित्र आहे\" — the Sarus is the farmer's true friend. Ten walls were painted with the birds of the district, each one facing the fields the birds actually use.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: village awareness through paintings", "taken_on": "2017-08", "place": "Gondia district" }, "ct-sloth-bear-night": { "file": "sewa/ct-sloth-bear-night.jpg", "caption": "A sloth bear on the Chulband trap line at night.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Camera trap monitoring", "taken_on": "2023", "place": "Gondia district" }, "ct-honey-badger-night": { "file": "sewa/ct-honey-badger-night.jpg", "caption": "A honey badger — one of the species the trap line records that no patrol would ever see.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Camera trap monitoring", "taken_on": "2023", "place": "Gondia district" }, "ct-leopard-litter": { "file": "sewa/ct-leopard-litter.jpg", "caption": "A leopard on the same route a tiger used three nights earlier. Trap stations record who uses a corridor, and when.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Camera trap monitoring", "taken_on": "2023", "place": "Gondia district" }, "corridor-field-team-2016": { "file": "sewa/corridor-field-team-2016.jpg", "caption": "Recording a field sign during the dispersal study. The study has run since 2011 — three years before SEWA was registered.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: corridor & dispersal study", "taken_on": "2016-12", "place": "Gondia district" }, "corridor-map-pench-nagzira": { "file": "sewa/corridor-map-pench-nagzira.jpg", "caption": "The northern corridor mapped compartment by compartment, with the fragmented sections in red and the break marked PN GAP-1. This is the product the Forest Department can act on.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own document", "source": "SEWA corridor & dispersal study", "place": "Pench–Nagzira corridor" }, "sarus-rescue-carry": { "file": "sewa/sarus-rescue-carry.jpg", "caption": "Handling an injured Sarus Crane in a harvested field. Rescue calls come in through the 24-hour line and are answered by the same eight-person field team.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "waterbird-census-mist": { "file": "sewa/waterbird-census-mist.jpg", "caption": "Walking out to the count positions at first light. The Asian Waterbird Census is done on foot, in January, before the mist lifts.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Asian bird census 2024", "taken_on": "2024-01", "place": "Gondia district" }, "waterbird-census-felicitation": { "file": "sewa/waterbird-census-felicitation.jpg", "caption": "The census team assembled at the end of the count. Eighty volunteers took part in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Asian bird census 2024", "taken_on": "2024-01", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sammelan-hall-2019": { "file": "sewa/sammelan-hall-2019.jpg", "caption": "Forest and police staff at the Sarus Mitra Sammelan. Farmers, department and police in the same room is the point of the gathering.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Sarus Mitra Sammelan 2019", "taken_on": "2019", "place": "Gondia" }, "sammelan-kit-handover": { "file": "sewa/sammelan-kit-handover.jpg", "caption": "Field kits handed to Sarus Mitras at the sammelan — the bag, the recording sheet and the number to call.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Sarus Mitra Sammelan 2019", "taken_on": "2019", "place": "Gondia" }, "sammelan-award-2022": { "file": "sewa/sammelan-award-2022.jpg", "caption": "Recognition at the 2022 sammelan. Twenty-nine Sarus Mitras attended in 2021-22; fifty-five by 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Sarus Mitra Sammelan 2022", "taken_on": "2022", "place": "Gondia" }, "sammelan-participants-2022": { "file": "sewa/sammelan-participants-2022.jpg", "caption": "The 2022 sammelan in session.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Sarus Mitra Sammelan 2022", "taken_on": "2022", "place": "Gondia" }, "tank-desilting-line": { "file": "sewa/tank-desilting-line.jpg", "caption": "Desilting a village tank in the dry season, when the bed can be worked. The silt goes onto the fields; the deepened tank holds more water through the next monsoon.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: wetland restoration work", "taken_on": "2018-04", "place": "Gondia district" }, "tank-silt-carry": { "file": "sewa/tank-silt-carry.jpg", "caption": "Silt carried out of the tank bed by hand. Restoration here is manual, seasonal, and done by the households that use the tank.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: wetland restoration work", "taken_on": "2018-04", "place": "Gondia district" }, "wetland-survey-walk": { "file": "sewa/wetland-survey-walk.jpg", "caption": "A wetland ecology survey underway. Forty-six surveys were run in 2023-24, up from twenty-two in 2021-22.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: wetland restoration work", "taken_on": "2018", "place": "Gondia district" }, "tank-scrub-clearing": { "file": "sewa/tank-scrub-clearing.jpg", "caption": "Clearing invasive growth off a tank bed. Left alone, scrub closes the open water that waterbirds and Sarus Cranes need.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: wetland restoration work", "taken_on": "2018", "place": "Gondia district" }, "nala-sandbag-line": { "file": "sewa/nala-sandbag-line.jpg", "caption": "A finished sandbag bund holding water in a forest nala. Cheap, local, and rebuilt each season.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2022-23", "taken_on": "2023-03", "place": "NNTR buffer, Gondia district" }, "nala-bund-building": { "file": "sewa/nala-bund-building.jpg", "caption": "Building the bund. Nineteen waterholes and water sources were rejuvenated in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2022-23", "taken_on": "2023-03", "place": "NNTR buffer, Gondia district" }, "waterhole-restored": { "file": "sewa/waterhole-restored.jpg", "caption": "A restored waterhole in the corridor. Whether water holds into May decides whether animals can move through at all.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2022-23", "taken_on": "2023-03", "place": "NNTR buffer, Gondia district" }, "waterhole-monitoring-banner": { "file": "sewa/waterhole-monitoring-banner.jpg", "caption": "A monitored waterhole. Each site is revisited on a fixed schedule so that a dry season can be compared with the last one.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "forest-fire-day": { "file": "sewa/forest-fire-day.jpg", "caption": "Working a fire edge in daylight. Fire monitoring ran to fifty-five days in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2017-18", "taken_on": "2018-03-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "forest-fire-aftermath": { "file": "sewa/forest-fire-aftermath.jpg", "caption": "The Murdoli fire, March 2023. Ground fire kills the seedlings and the invertebrates that the whole system runs on.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2022-23, forest fire & mitigation", "taken_on": "2023-03", "place": "Murdoli, Gondia district" }, "forest-fire-crown": { "file": "sewa/forest-fire-crown.jpg", "caption": "The same fire an hour later. Detection, reporting and beating out are all done by the field team alongside the Forest Department.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2022-23, forest fire & mitigation", "taken_on": "2023-03", "place": "Murdoli, Gondia district" }, "wildlife-week-assembly": { "file": "sewa/wildlife-week-assembly.jpg", "caption": "A Wildlife Week session at a village school. Forty-two school programmes reached 1,860 students directly in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Wildlife Week 2019", "taken_on": "2019-10", "place": "Tedha, Gondia district" }, "wildlife-week-banner": { "file": "sewa/wildlife-week-banner.jpg", "caption": "Global Wildlife Week, 2019. The exhibition travels from school to school through the first week of October.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Wildlife Week 2019", "taken_on": "2019-10", "place": "Tedha, Gondia district" }, "wildlife-week-trail-walk": { "file": "sewa/wildlife-week-trail-walk.jpg", "caption": "A corridor walk during Wildlife Week. Students, villagers and forest staff walk the same ground on the same morning.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Wildlife Week 2019", "taken_on": "2019-10", "place": "Jambdhi, Gondia district" }, "mural-comb-duck": { "file": "sewa/mural-comb-duck.jpg", "caption": "Comb Duck. Each mural names the bird in Marathi and English on the wall of the village whose tanks it uses.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: village awareness through paintings", "taken_on": "2017-08", "place": "Gondia district" }, "mural-spoonbill": { "file": "sewa/mural-spoonbill.jpg", "caption": "Eurasian Spoonbill, painted at the scale of the bird itself. The murals are the only field guide most of these villages have.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: village awareness through paintings", "taken_on": "2017-08", "place": "Gondia district" }, "mural-woolly-necked-stork": { "file": "sewa/mural-woolly-necked-stork.jpg", "caption": "Woolly-necked Stork, with a Marathi verse promising protection for wildlife. Ten walls were painted across the district.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: village awareness through paintings", "taken_on": "2017-08", "place": "Gondia district" }, "school-outreach-kits": { "file": "sewa/school-outreach-kits.jpg", "caption": "Handing out material at a school programme. Awareness work reached 1,860 students and 1,150 villagers directly in 2023-24.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "awareness-mobile-van": { "file": "sewa/awareness-mobile-van.jpg", "caption": "The mobile exhibition on the road. It goes to the villages that no school programme reaches.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "village-womens-meeting": { "file": "sewa/village-womens-meeting.jpg", "caption": "A village meeting. Self-help groups, livelihood training and the response teams all start in rooms like this one.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "tendu-collection-dawn": { "file": "sewa/tendu-collection-dawn.jpg", "caption": "Tendu collection at first light in Deori block. 3,122 households earned from the harvest in 2023-24; 3,280 did in 2021-22.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Deori block, Gondia district" }, "leopard-daylight-forest": { "file": "sewa/leopard-daylight-forest.jpg", "caption": "A leopard on the forest floor in daylight. Leopard density here is what makes the corridor work matter beyond tigers alone.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Navegaon–Nagzira landscape" }, "peacock-display": { "file": "sewa/peacock-display.jpg", "caption": "A peacock displaying in open forest. The common species are counted too — a landscape is judged on what is ordinary in it, not only on what is rare.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia district" }, "fawn-rescue-vehicle": { "file": "sewa/fawn-rescue-vehicle.jpg", "caption": "A fawn recovered and about to be moved. Ninety-eight animals were rescued in 2023-24 — reptiles, birds and mammals together.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia district" }, "fawn-bottle-feeding": { "file": "sewa/fawn-bottle-feeding.jpg", "caption": "Hand-feeding a fawn through the first days. Rehabilitation is done with the Forest Department, and the aim is always release.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia" }, "fawn-recovering": { "file": "sewa/fawn-recovering.jpg", "caption": "Recovering indoors. A 24-hour line means the call can come at any hour, and often does.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia" }, "tendu-women-packing": { "file": "sewa/tendu-women-packing.jpg", "caption": "Sorting tendu leaf into sacks. Twelve minor-forest-produce workshops reached 350 collectors in 2023-24 — nearly double the year before.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Deori block, Gondia district" }, "tendu-field-collection": { "file": "sewa/tendu-field-collection.jpg", "caption": "The harvest laid out to dry. The point of the workshops is a better price for a harvest that does not damage the tree.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Deori block, Gondia district" }, "fire-burnt-ground": { "file": "sewa/fire-burnt-ground.jpg", "caption": "What a ground fire leaves. Fifty-five days of the 2023-24 season went on fire monitoring alone.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia district" }, "staff-training-session": { "file": "sewa/staff-training-session.jpg", "caption": "A training session with Forest Department staff. The field relationship is built in rooms like this before it works in the forest.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2024", "place": "Gondia" }, "wolf-grassland": { "file": "sewa/wolf-grassland.jpg", "caption": "An Indian grey wolf in the grassland. The species is scheduled, shy and easy to miss — which is exactly why it has to be counted.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2019-20", "taken_on": "2019-20", "place": "Gondia district" }, "wolves-pack-grassland": { "file": "sewa/wolves-pack-grassland.jpg", "caption": "A wolf pack on open ground. SEWA ran a dedicated wolf conservation and monitoring programme for Wildlife Week 2020.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-09", "place": "Gondia district" }, "wolves-pair-grassland": { "file": "sewa/wolves-pair-grassland.jpg", "caption": "The same pack, minutes later. Grassland and scrub are the habitats with the least protection and the fewest counts.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-09", "place": "Gondia district" }, "blackbuck-sparring": { "file": "sewa/blackbuck-sparring.jpg", "caption": "Two blackbuck males sparring. The grassland counts run in the same season as the tiger work and answer to the same pressures.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2019-20", "taken_on": "2019-20", "place": "Gondia district" }, "census-team-dawn-stubble": { "file": "sewa/census-team-dawn-stubble.jpg", "caption": "A census team assembling in a harvested field at dawn. The count is walked, field by field, not driven.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2019-20", "taken_on": "2019-20", "place": "Gondia district" }, "census-team-banner": { "file": "sewa/census-team-banner.jpg", "caption": "Before the count begins. Volunteers are briefed on the same protocol every year, which is what makes twenty years of numbers comparable.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2019-20", "taken_on": "2019-20", "place": "Gondia district" }, "village-signboard": { "file": "sewa/village-signboard.jpg", "caption": "An information board going up on a village road. The message has to stand where the people it is for actually walk.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2019-20", "taken_on": "2019-20", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-paddy-township": { "file": "sewa/sarus-paddy-township.jpg", "caption": "Sarus Cranes feeding within sight of the town. This is the whole problem in one frame — the birds live on farmland, beside people and beside power lines.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-flock-harvested": { "file": "sewa/sarus-flock-harvested.jpg", "caption": "A flock in the stubble after harvest. Outside the breeding season the birds gather; through the monsoon they scatter to nest.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "waterhole-inspection": { "file": "sewa/waterhole-inspection.jpg", "caption": "Checking a waterhole in the dry season. Each site is revisited on a fixed schedule, so one summer can be compared with the last.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2020-21", "taken_on": "2020-21", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sarus-wetland-distance": { "file": "sewa/sarus-wetland-distance.jpg", "caption": "A wetland holding Sarus Cranes and waterbirds together. Counting from a distance is the point — the birds are recorded without being moved.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2023-07", "place": "Gondia district" }, "nest-protection-enclosure": { "file": "sewa/nest-protection-enclosure.jpg", "caption": "A screen put up around an active nest site at the request of the farmer whose field it is. Nest protection is done with the household, never over it.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sewa-banner-watertower": { "file": "sewa/sewa-banner-watertower.jpg", "caption": "The field team with the organisation's banner: Sustaining Environment and Wildlife Assemblage. Eight people cover six zones across three districts.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "place": "Gondia district" }, "sammelan-forest-staff": { "file": "sewa/sammelan-forest-staff.jpg", "caption": "Department and organisation together at the sammelan, June 2019. The Sarus programme runs on that relationship as much as on the counts.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: annual report images", "taken_on": "2019-06", "place": "Gondia" }, "school-assembly-projector": { "file": "sewa/school-assembly-projector.jpg", "caption": "A screening at an ashram school. For most of these students it is the first time they see the animals living a few kilometres away.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Wildlife Week 2019", "taken_on": "2019-10", "place": "Dawaniwada, Gondia district" }, "wildlife-week-school-steps": { "file": "sewa/wildlife-week-school-steps.jpg", "caption": "Wildlife Week at Gangazhari school. The week is the one fixed point in the awareness calendar, and it runs across the district.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Wildlife Week 2019", "taken_on": "2019-10", "place": "Gangazhari, Gondia district" }, "village-hall-women": { "file": "sewa/village-hall-women.jpg", "caption": "A village meeting with hands up. Fifteen to eighteen village programmes run each year, and the self-help groups come out of them.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: Annual Report 2019-20", "taken_on": "2019-20", "place": "Gondia district" }, "tank-restoration-dig": { "file": "sewa/tank-restoration-dig.jpg", "caption": "Cutting into the tank bed by hand. The silt taken out goes onto the fields, so the work pays twice.", "credit": "SEWA Gondia", "licence": "SEWA Gondia — own photograph", "source": "SEWA photo archive: ecological restoration", "taken_on": "2018", "place": "Gondia district" } } }