I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to look up this and found a newspaper article on the topic. That ban was apparently introduced because of a certain wildlife photographer refused to provide photographs to the Kerala Forest Deparment for their use.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/wild-photography-...
Reading that news again with fresh insight suggests that the wildlife photographer in question was in fact N.A. Nazeer! Perhaps he or someone ought to inform the Kerala Forest Department of Wikimedia Commons..
best wishes Shyamal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
It is very important to read this too along with the news:
The officials wanted to grab the photographs, but without any attributions to the photographers themselves. As usual, these photos will later appear in costly or otherwise Govt. publications, promptly and sacredly credited to the photographers employed by the department of forests or tourism.
As for Wikimedia, we had our Wiki Vana Vijnjana Yatra, (Wiki Jungle Expedition), conducted highly succesful, as part of Malayalam Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary in December 2012, just a few days before the order was released. Most of those photographs are already in Wikimedia Commons.
It is only a matter of time, the Government officials realize that the true guards of our bio-diversity are such amaeture / freelance photo'grabber's.
-ViswaPrabha
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:35 PM, L. Shyamal lshyamal@gmail.com wrote:
I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to look up this and found a newspaper article on the topic. That ban was apparently introduced because of a certain wildlife photographer refused to provide photographs to the Kerala Forest Deparment for their use.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/wild-photography-...
Reading that news again with fresh insight suggests that the wildlife photographer in question was in fact N.A. Nazeer! Perhaps he or someone ought to inform the Kerala Forest Department of Wikimedia Commons..
best wishes Shyamal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
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Shyamal, Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be technically in violation of the law right?
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On Aug 31, 2013 7:35 PM, "L. Shyamal" lshyamal@gmail.com wrote:
I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to look up this and found a newspaper article on the topic. That ban was apparently introduced because of a certain wildlife photographer refused to provide photographs to the Kerala Forest Deparment for their use.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/wild-photography-...
Reading that news again with fresh insight suggests that the wildlife photographer in question was in fact N.A. Nazeer! Perhaps he or someone ought to inform the Kerala Forest Department of Wikimedia Commons..
best wishes Shyamal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
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On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < srik.ramk@wikimedia.in> wrote:
Shyamal, Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be technically in violation of the law right?
It was not a rule . It was an order issued almost an year ago . There was huge outcry against it and somebody need to check the status of it now . Anyway that does not affects these photos because Most of these are taken much before the issue date of the order.
~ regards Anivar
Aah, okay, thanks for clearing it up! :)
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < srik.ramk@wikimedia.in> wrote:
Shyamal, Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be technically in violation of the law right?
It was not a rule . It was an order issued almost an year ago . There was huge outcry against it and somebody need to check the status of it now . Anyway that does not affects these photos because Most of these are taken much before the issue date of the order.
~ regards Anivar
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