Platforms have been at Nature Park on which at a time 10 tents of 2 layers of canvas having capacity of 10 people and 4 people can be mounted. This section is mainly used in the summer at the time of camps or for night stay in Nature Park in scheme of Family Camp or Workshop Camps.

Thus do make visit to all this wonderful education section at Nature Park. On above all this there is a facility of Digital Conference Hall for organizing seminars. And one can organize their educational program in the lap of Nature’s beauty at Amphi Theater. Also there is facility of Canteen where one can enjoy tasty food of jungle and can make the use of splash pool too in the evening. Children can specially play in the Play zone where there activities based on adventure like Rope Bridge, Rope Ladder, etc. Toilets and bathrooms are well maintained and are been regularly cleaned.

Another important feature of Nature Park is its wide jungle which is full of Biodiversity. And one can enjoy the tracking in the jungle as is been developed on the ravines of Mahi Sagar river.

Gujarat nature Conservation Society had installed the Analogue type Weather Station in the year 2003 at Nature Education park, to monitor the weather of the local and to teach the working of the weather instruments to visitor students.

The Weather Station was then upgraded with Automatic Weather Station in the year 2010 to monitor micro climate. Both the stations were supported by UNITED WAY OF BARODA. Station was further upgraded with advance level automation with Wifi enabled DATA excess in the 2019. Weather Station is having Weather DATA since 2003, which is used for forecasting and mapping of the local weather.

For the purpose of popularizing Astronomical and small scale research and to make student’s observer the Astronomical Events and their data collection is the aim of this section. During night stay one can observe night sky with naked eyes and through telescope. There are around 20 different instruments on which the Amateur Astronomer of the organization are working on with. Some of their instruments are really interesting like the model to understand the Moon phases, in this model we see all the phases of moon in just one cycle.

There is also facility of showing the 2D images of the 3D models of Constellations. At present study work is going on the Principal of Motion given by scientist Johannes Keplar and a model is being developed to understand it. Schools students are being made introduce to all this research & experiments during their school visit made at Park.

Research works on projects the likes Meteor Observation, Asteroid Observation, Comet Observation, Stars Observations, Solar Observation, etc. is been done in collaboration with some National and International Organizations of the World. At Nature Park’s observatory there is a Newtonian telescope of 12 inches diameter which is been donated by British Gas Oil Pvt. Ltd. and made by Astronomer of Madras Prof. P.Devdas. Besides this there is also a Cesegrain telescope of 8 inches and a Newtonian telescope of 5 inches.

Gujarat Nature Conservation Society had constructed an Insect Museum in 2003 with an idea of imparting basic knowledge of ‘Importance of Insects in Human life’ to the visitor students.
The museum was supported by UNITED WAY OF BARODA.
It was upgraded then in 2010 by the support of ALSTOM FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. The museum is having a huge collection of Butterflies, Insects, Fossils, Corals, Sea Shells.

Gujarat Nature Conservation Society (GNCS) is a NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION, founded in 1984 with an objective of NATURE CONSERVATION, NATURE SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY WORK.

The main activities

• Conservation practices at Nature Education Park, and village Sindhrot of Taluka Vadodara;
• Camps for Nature Education for students, youth and people of neighbouring rural and urban areas;
• Educational Programmes and Training workshops in popular Nature science and Environmental Science for students and teachers;
• Community work in village to empower rural people;
• Study and Mapping of Micro Climate of the area for environmental sustainability, ecological understanding, including knowledge of flora and fauna, forestry, natural resource management, biodiversity and climate change.

IMPORTANT PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY GNCS 

Project	Years	Target Objectives	Impact
Development of Nature Education Park at village Sindhrot (Gujarat Government had given five acres of land in the village to serve the objective in 2006)	1984 onwards	Nature Conservation and Nature Education	Gradual Development of Nature Education Park resulted a lush green cover in the forest, and increase in flora and fauna of the park
Survey of Threaten Species in Mahi Ravines – Allocated by Gujarat Ecology Society	2004	Survey to support the Research of GES	Check List of Plant Species of village Sindhrot area
Bal Urja Rakshak Dal – Initiated by Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) GOG	2004 to 2009	Campaign of Energy Saving and learn the use of Renewable Energy Resources through School Students	Spreading knowledge and popularisation amongst the community
Energy Treks – Supported by Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) GOG	2004 to 2007	Residential Educational Camps at Nature Education park for the Tribal area school students and teachers of Gujarat State	Spreading knowledge and popularisation of Renewable Energy and Resources amongst the community
National Children’s Science Congress – Project of NCSTC, Dept of Science & Tech, GOI	2004 to 2013	To involve students in Research activities in Science	Could involve School Students and Teachers of all the districts of the Gujarat State
National Environmental Awareness Campaign – Project of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, GOG and VIKSAT	2004 to 2014	Awareness Activities	Could teach the society to meet the objective of Awareness
Integrated Management of Natural Resources of Mahi Valley Ravines – Supported by ALSTOM FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, FRANCE	2010 to 2013	Sindhrot Village	Increase in green cover, Rain water recharging, Animal husbandry program, Improving infrastructures, Check Dam, Bori Bunds, Pond, Plantation
CLEAN-GREEN SINDHROT – Supported by Shroff Family Charitable Trust	Since 2010	School students of Village Sindhrot	Took as a mission and Environmental awareness activities
SUMMER CAMPS at Nature Education park	Since 2004	School Students of age 10 to 15	Regular Camps of Issue based Nature Science Education during vacation period

Development of Educational Facilities at Nature Education Park with the help of various organisations since inception 

Year	Development	Supported by
1984 onwards	Plantation in the forest land.	Initial Forest Land was supported by Shram Mandir Trust to serve the objectives.
	Construction of Pond and Construction of Retaining Wall.	Construction of Pond and Retaining Wall was supported by IPCL
	Organising Nature Camps and Development of Nature Education Park at Village Sindhrot of Taluka Vadodara	Government of Gujarat allotted land in 2005 to meet the objectives of the society
2003	Insect Museum	United Way of Baroda
2004	Weather Station (Analogue Type)	United Way of Baroda
2005	Construction of 35 Feet high Fabricated Watch Tower for Birding	United Way of Baroda
2008	12 inch Newtonian Equatorial mount Telescope	British Gas (India) Ltd
2009	Automatic Weather Station	United Way of Baroda
2010 to 2013	·  Administration Office Building ·  Interpretation Centre having Library, Knowledge Generation Room (Smart Class Room) and Astronomical Observatory ·  Toilet Blocks (Ladies and Gents) ·  Conference Hall ·  Renovation and up gradation of Insect Museum ·  Kitchen and Canteen Block ·  Store Room ·  Platforms for pitching the Tents ·  Amphi Theatre ·  Plantation in Nature Park area and village Sindhrot area. ·  Construction of Bori Bunds, Stone Masonry Check Dams and RCC Check Dam. ·  R. O. Plant, Over Head Water Tanks, Water Supply Lines, Electrification ·  Web site development ·  Self guided trails of Nature Park ·  Animal Husbandry Program at Village Sindhrot in association with BIAF ·  Training workshops for Students and Teachers of local schools, Women empowerment through basic education, villagers	ALSTOM FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, FRANCE
2017	Construction of New POND	Softel Infra Pvt. Ltd

DISSERTATION BY THE COLLEGE STUDENTS AT GNCS 

SR	TITLE OF THE DISSERTATION	NAME OF STUDENT	NAME OF THE GUIDE	FACULTY / UNIVERSITY
1	DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY OF INSECTS IN NATURE EDUCATION PARK, VADODARA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HYMENOPTERA. YEAR 2017-18	HIREN JADHAV	PROF. PRAGNA PARIKH (Dept. of Zoology, Faculty of Science, MSU)	M.Sc. ZOOLOGY, Faculty of Science, MSU
2	CHANGING VEGITATION COVER IN SINDHROT AREA AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL CLIMATE YEAR 2018-19	PRERAK PATHAK	Dr. AMI RAVAL (Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Science, MSU)	B.Sc. Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, MSU
3	EFFECT OF LAND USE CHANGES ON ENVIRIONMENT OF WESTERN PART OF VADODARA CITY YEAR 2018-19	NIDHI BANSAL	Dr. AMI RAVAL (Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Science, MSU)	B.Sc. Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, MSU

 ANNUAL BENEFICIARIES UNDER VARIOUS ACTIVITIES (1998 -2019) 

YEAR	SCHOOL BENEFICIARIES	TOTAL BENEFICIARIES (Including Schools and others)
1998 – 2019(March)	3718	181678

SUMMER CAMPS BENEFICIARIES   (1998 -2019) 

YEAR	BENEFICIARIES	YEAR	BENEFICIARIES
2004	14	2012	125
2005	09	2013	145
2006	34	2014	65
2007	38	2015	168
2008	62	2016	168
2009	109	2017	109
2010	45	2018	120
2011	120	2019	232
TOTAL			1563

PRIZES AND AWARDS (2004-2018) 

• FIRST & SECOND PRIZES FOR THE BEST PERFORMANCES IN UNITED WAY MELA FOR THE YEARS – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 ORGANISED BY UNITED WAY OF BARODA.

• AWARD FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS PROGRAMMES – 2013 BY NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY & ARYAVRAT CHERITABLE TRUST, PATAN

• VNM ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARD – 2013 BY VNM

• FELICITATION TESTIMONIAL FOR THE BEST NGO IN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY WORK – 2016 BY GUJARAT ECOLOGY COMMISSION, GOG

TRUSTEES

Smt. Nilaben Shah (President)

Shri. Bamanbhai Cama (Vice President)

Shri. Samirbhai Parikh (Hon. Secretary)

Shri. Hasmukhbhai Shah (Founder Trustee)

Smt. Sarojben Patel

Smt. Roopaben Patel

 

MEMBERS – GOVERNING COUNCIL

Smt. Aviben Sabavala

Smt. Ratiben Sheopuri

Shri. Haribhai Patel

Dr. Jayendrabhai Lakhmapurkar

 

CONTACT

Mukesh Pathak (CEO)