Himalayan Black Bear rescued from Gangtok

01.04.2020: Himalayan Black Bear was rescued successfully by Forest officials of Government of Sikkim after whole day of operation. Bear was first sighted at BSNL Telephone Exchange office situated at main Gangtok town at 5 AM morning, where the bear had attacked one employee and injured him seriously. Later the victim was send to STNM hospital.

Himalayan Black Bear was tranquilized by the team of professionals from Forest Department and put safely in the cage. As per the sources Bear will be transferred to Himalayan Zoological Park , Bulbulay, East Sikkim.

Sikkim Ornithological Society starts awareness tour to Sikkim’s schools

Visits Kabi GSSS and Tingda PS

Sikkim Biodiversity news

02.09.15: Sikkim Ornithological Society starts an awareness of Sikkim’s nature by visiting schools of Sikkim. The organization is set to visit at-least 500 schools from primary level to Senior Secondary schools in the program. The team of SOS today made its first visit to Kabi School and Tingda PS.

 Nosang Muringla Limboo, President of SOS with his presentation of Butterfly chart

With Headmaster and Teacher of Tingda 

The Team met the students and teachers of the school and briefed about the volunteer work to present a chart of Birds and Butterflies of Sikkim (complied by the SOS team a decade's work) for each school throughout the state. Motive behind the program was to interact with the young minds of Sikkim and to make them aware of their own natural wealth and help conserve it.