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Me with Rani

I am Jeevan Jose from Kadavoor, Kerala, India. Take photos of plants and bugs; would like to contribute best of them here. Active in other projects like WikiProject Nature and conservation in India, WikiProject Tree of Life, WikiProject Plants and WikiProject Insects in Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Wikispecies and Meta-Wiki. Works together with other similar minded people in India to attract more citizen scientists and photographers to Wikimedia. Fortunate enough to be part of the team when Wikipedia was formally presented with the highly esteemed Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, honoring the Wikimedia movement vision of allowing everyone, everywhere to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Also available at projects like Facebook, Flickr, EOL, Project Noah, India Biodiversity Portal and DiversityIndia.

Uploaded 2,121 images which includes 102 Featured Pictures, 515 Quality Images, 24 Valued Images. Among them, 126 works has been published / re-used outside Wikimedia projects. Created these galleries for those interested to learn and self identify their works: Butterflies of Kerala, Odonata of Kerala, Amphibians of Kerala, Reptiles of Kerala, Birds of Kerala and Mammals of Kerala.