To preserve endangered species of Cycas beddomei

• About two thirds of India’s population – 825 million people – depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Rising food insecurity is caused by environmental degradation, pressure on land, and droughts and floods, which are becoming more common.
• Only 30% of women are in the labour force. They receive just 62% of the average salary for a man. Finding a decent job is also a challenge for India’s large and growing youth population

• Scholars since ancient time believe that the universe is made with the composition of five elements. All these five elements are present in the balanced state in this universe. For instance: if the level of water increases up to a certain limit, then the whole world will be filled with water resulting in floods. These five elements, Water, Air, Fire, Space and Earth. That all these five elements are essential for the existence of human life on earth.
• outcome of the project
• There are fifty villages surrounding behalf of the Tiruvannamalai City and Annamalaiyar Forest. The target people residence generally lives as subsistence farmers and local problems relate to forestry, agriculture, livestock, education, health and income. Normally the peoples lived depend upon on the Annamalaiyar Forest and its forest area. Peoples utilized the forest resources day by day. At presently under the surrounding the Mountain deforested gradually damaged. Hence our Awareness program will increase the knowledge to our target group members will take care the forest and to maintain and manage the Green environment and trees growth in the following years.

Cycas beddomei is an evergreen, palm-like plant with an erect main stem that can eventually be up to 200cm tall and 15cm in diameter; this is topped by a crown of around 20 - 30 large leaves each around 100 - 130cm long. Male plants often produce suckers from the base to form a clump, but females are always solitary.
The population of Cycas beddomei is declining, partly due to local medicinal use and partly due to the frequency of grassfires that effectively block reproduction. The plant is classified as 'Endangered' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened  Species. Preservation of Fauna is based on preservation of Flora. The first impact of the Flora is on the entomology. In future we will need the entomological studies, but we will not be having the species to study.

Solution

• To conduct motivation meeting for the indigenous student volunteers and explain the project in detail.
• To approach the District Forest Officer, for requesting protection for the planted species.
• To purchase saplings from the captive nurseries plants to the target location and to bio-fence.
• We propose to plant these species in the reserve forest areas.
• To plant the plants in the target location with the assistance of laborers and the student volunteers.

Long-Term Impact

• Preservation of the ‘Cycas beddomei’ in the non-captive environment.
•  Preservation of the insect species associated with the plant.
•  Helping the research on the medicinal property of the plant.
•  Helping for the proliferation of the extinct plant.
• Provision of environment education for the indigenous student volunteers.
• Preservation of the species and associated insects for future studies and the expected result will be non-captive proliferation of the species.