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Story writing competition                                                                                              "The Bear book"


             We have received 32 stories in Hindi, Gujarati and English from different regions
             of the world. Out of all the 32 stories received, the best story award was given to                                     © Pratik Desai                                                                   © Shalu Mesaria
             the  story  written  by  Ms.  Sakshi  Kailash  Wagh  from  Buldhana  District,
             Maharashtra.




                                                                     Winners

                                                                      st
                                                                     1    : Sakshi Wagh

                                                                      nd
                                                                     2    : Anjali Shukla
                                                                        rd                                                          An  activity  booklet  on  sloth  bears  is  prepared  in  English  and  Gujarati.  This
                                                                     3    : Dipti Panchal                                           includes  various  activities  related  to  the  bears  for  the  school  kids.  We

                                                                                                                                    distributed  around  2000  booklets  to  the  kids  in  various  schools  located  near

              © Pratik Desai                                                                                                        the periphery of the forest. Volunteers and the project team participated in the
                                                                                                                                    distribution of the activity booklets. Students were made to color the bears and
                                                                                                                                    sketch the bears by joining the dots. An attempt was made to make them love
                                                                             "Bears of India"                                       bears and educate them about the presence of  bears in their locality.

                                                                     All these talks were made live on
                                                                     YouTube  and  are  available  on
                                                                     our  YouTube  channel.  This  live
                                                                     lecture series was organized as a
                                                                     part  of  the  celebration  of
                                                                     International  Happy  Bears  Day

                                                                     on      May      10,     2020,       in
                                                                       collaboration  with  EAZA  Bear
                                                                     TAG     and      the    IUCN      Bear
                                                                     Specialist  Group.  More  than
                                                                     4500  viewers  from  14  different
                                                                     countries     have     viewed      this
                                                                     programme live, which indicates
                                                                     its grand success.



                                                                                                Male: 68.8

                                                                                                Female: 31.2



                                                                                                                                                  Map showing the schools location where outreach programmes were conducted

                                 Male & Female viewers across the world

              41                                                   Sloth bear Conservation Education Programme                       42                                                   Sloth bear Conservation Education Programme
                                                                                          WCB Research Foundation                                                                                                WCB Research Foundation
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