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Animation film: “भाल सर ण - "समझदारी स साझदारी” Sweet scent of Honey- a comic leaflet
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As a part of our conservation and
outreach programme, we used the best © HImanshu Chaudhary
story to produce the animation film
and reach out to the locals, especially
the school children. The Animated film
premiered on May 10, 2021 and till date
this film is viewed by more than 2000
people of different age groups across
the world.

The story of this short film is about
Shantigram, a small village in central
India, where the forest and wildlife

were under threat due to poaching and
high anthropogenic activity. A wildlife
photographer along with the forest
department and local NGO started
creating awareness about sloth bears Figure 9: “भालु संर ण - "समझदारी से साझेदारी” An The leaflet consists of the story of a pair of bears and the threats they face and
Animation Film on Sloth Bear Conservation
among the village community. With the (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch? their conservation needs. The leaflet is developed from the second-best story
help of local people, forest officers have v=q9WRWkcoH5I&t=27s) written by Dr Anjli Shukla of Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
caught hunters. The state forest department has declared the forest of
Shantigram as a wildlife reserve and sloth bear sanctuary. The ultimate moral of
the story is “Do not disturb the natural habitat of wildlife and try to coexist with
the wildlife”. A story written by Sakshi Wagh, and the film was produced by
WCB Research Foundation.

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