Jmgarg1

The photographers barnstar for the generous contributions of images to help in improving the state of natural history information in the Indian region. Shyamal (talk) 11:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Fauna Barnstar
		Keep up the good work, Gargji. AshLin (talk) 20:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

		India Barnstar of National Merit
		For all your tireless efforts to record India's Butterflies and Birds. You do an amazing job. Keep up the good work!!! ^{Wayne Ray User:WayneRay}

		The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar
		For User:Jmgarg1 for his many pictorial contributions to Wikiproject Lepidoptera. AshLin (talk) 09:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For all those images of plants and animals from India. Not for the first time, I expect, they have been the primary illustrations for a featured article, Russet Sparrow. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 14:47, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

He is a passionate naturalist & a wildlife photographer. He has been trekking a lot since last 15 years. His is creating awareness about our Trees & Plants, winged friends (Birds), Butterflies, etc. in particular & nature around us in general.

He had published a book called 'A Photoguide to the birds of Kolkata & Common birds of India'.

He had held few Exhibitions mainly focusing on Bird Photography.

He is the owner of Efloraofindia - a google group. Efloraofindia (earlier Indiantreepix) is the largest Google e-group in the world in this field & largest nature related (and the most constructive with more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18/6/15) in India devoted to creating awareness, helping in identification etc. along with discussion & documentation of Indian Flora. He is the owner of (and also maintaining) Efloraofindia website for documenting flora of india that is being discussed on Efloraofindia google e-group along with supplementing the working of the group. More than 11000 species' pages of seed plants, ferns, fungi & others are available with details for those species which have already been discussed in effloraofindia e-group.

He is currently working on 'Wikiproject Lepidoptera' & 'WikiProject Birds' & contributing to 'Tree of Life Wikiproject' of Wikipedia. He has uploaded thousands of his best images of Birds, Buttterflies, Plants etc. (more than a thousand species) in Wikimedia Commons, which can be seen at (arranged alphabetically & place wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg

Thousands of his images are used in Wikipedia & Wikispecies & can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jmgarg1 & http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jmgarg1 respectively.

He can be contacted at jmgarg1@gmail.com

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