Kolkata Prokriti Poribrajak Samity

This is a non-profit organisation formed with the prime objective of motivating the students right from their childhood to become a nature lover in future. Protecting the nature, which is passing through the most threatened time, is of great importance in these days. Young students, the future generation, can only help protect the 'Mother Nature' if they start loving nature since their student life. With this end in view, we organize 'Nature Study' camp every year during X'Mas vacation at different locations in eastern India. During the last few years, such camps have been organized in North Bengal and Odisha. In the 'Nature Study' camps, various subjects are covered like Ornithology, flora and fauna, star gazing, map reading, rock climbing etc. Instructors having thorough knowledge on the subject take care of the young minds. We also instill in students/trainees in camps the interest on trekking and mountaineering. Moreover, we often arrange slide-shows at auditoriums in Kolkata so that hidden beauty and mystery of nature may come to light. Such shows see a huge participation from every walk of life. Eminent mountaineers, both past and present, take part in these shows.

Magazine

We publish a triannual magazine named 'MONPOBON', focusing on the beauty of nature and its conservation, taken care of by an editorial board under the guidance of the editor. The magazine puts emphasis on interesting literature on historical places, trekking and mountaineering, tribal life and culture, anthropology, archaeology, botany etc. To kindle the interest in the readers on issues of wildlife, erosion of soil, land-slides, decrease in the length of glaciers, melting of polar snow due to green house effect, scarcity of undergound water, deposition of silt in rivers, the magazine provides thoughtful articles at regular intervals.