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(a)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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