Summary:
They’re just a few of the 200-odd pictures shot on camera traps set up by school children from rural Maharashtra as part of the unique E-mammal Citizen Science Project. In a Raigad school, children got photos of leopards a few metres away from their school, on the same path villagers walk by day. Leopards nearbyThe children of Mangeli village, Sindhudurg, snapped a tiger. Even forest officials there would have spotted a tiger only once or twice, says SNM president Bhau Katdare. In its second phase in 2017, the project included 2,000 children in Class VIII and IX in 20 schools in Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur and Satara districts..