User:J.M.Garg

		The Fauna Barnstar
		Keep up the good work, Gargji. AshLin (talk) 20:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

		India Barnstar of National Merit
		For all your tireless efforts to record India's Butterflies and Birds. You do an amazing job. Keep up the good work!!! Wayne Ray User:WayneRay

		The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar
		For for his many pictorial contributions to Wikiproject Lepidoptera. AshLin (talk) 09:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For all those images of plants and animals from India. Not for the first time, I expect, they have been the primary illustrations for a featured article, Russet Sparrow. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 14:47, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

He is a passionate naturalist & a wildlife photographer. He has been trekking a lot since last 15 years. His is creating awareness about our Trees & Plants, winged friends (Birds), Butterflies, etc. in particular & nature around us in general.

He is the author of 'A Photoguide to the birds of Kolkata & Common birds of India'.

He had held few Exhibitions mainly focusing on Bird Photography.

He is the owner of Efloraofindia - a google group. Efloraofindia (earlier Indiantreepix) is the largest Google e-group in the world in this field & largest nature related (and the most constructive with more than 1580 members & 66,000 messages on 31/3/11) in India devoted to creating awareness, helping in identification etc. along with discussion & documentation of Indian Flora. Efloraofindia Database of around 4500 species upto 15/12/10, which can be downloaded from home page of Efloraofindia website. He is the owner (and also maintaining) Efloraofindia website for documenting flora of india that is being discussed on Efloraofindia google e-group along with supplementing the working of the group. More than 4500 species' pages of seed plants, ferns, fungi & others are available with details for those species which have already been discussed in effloraofindia e-group.

He is currently working on 'Wikiproject Lepidoptera' & 'WikiProject Birds' & contributing to 'Tree of Life Wikiproject' of Wikipedia. He has uploaded around eight thousand of his best images of Birds, Buttterflies, Plants etc. (more than a thousand species & eight thosand pictures), which can be seen at Wikimedia Commons(arranged alphabetically & place wise). One can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.

Thousands of his images are used in Wikis & can be seen at [|Wikipedia] & [|Wikispecies] respectively.

He can be contacted at jmgarg1@gmail.com.