BCN organised a week long Bird Painting and Photography Exhibition to celebrate the World Environment Day 2011 throughout the first week of June. Painting and photography about birds is powerful conservation awareness tool to educate the general public that can make people more aware about the growing environmental problems and encourage them to support our conservation efforts. The World Environment Day is celebrated each year on 5 June internationally with various conservation awareness programmes.  This year’s Theme is "Forests: Nature at your Service" and forests are important habitats for birds.  Mr. Kiran Manandhar , Chancellor of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts inaugurated the Bird Painting and Photo Exhibition, and stressed the importance of bird painting and photography in our society.  Birds are important indicator of healthy environment and incredible family of our natural world.  “Supporting nature art and photography is an innovative ways of appreciating birds”, says Mr. Manandhar.

Exhibition included 15 paintings and more than 60 photos of birds including 10 globally and nationally threatened species as well Spiny Babbler the only endemic bird to Nepal.  Some of the birds include Himalayan Monal, Black hooded Oriole,Grey-headed Fish Eagle , Red-billed Blue Magpie ,Green Sandpiper, Grey-backed Shrike, Snow Partridge , Common Coot , Darter,  Slender-billed Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Cinereous Vulture, Swamp Francolin, Bristled Grassbird, Sarus Crane, Lesser Adjutant,  Blue-throated Barbet , White-throated Kingfisher, Demoiselle Crane, Siberian Rubythroat,

Hodgson’s Bushchat, and Bar-headed Geese .

Exhibition included photos from 13 photographers: Capt. K. B. Limbu, Dr. Bhusan Raj Shrestha, Sudarson Karki, Mani Lama, Bipin Bajracharya, Govinda Shrestha (Gopi), Jyotendra J. Thakuri, Sarbendra Pachhai, Rajendra Gurung, Pushpa K.C., Krishna Mani Baral, Vimal Thapa and Ishwori Chaudhary.

“Although Nepal is a small country it is unique for rich bird biodiversity and their conservation is critical in order to maintain the delicate ecosystems”, says Mr. Scott H. DeLisi, US Ambassador to Nepal.

‘Most of these beautiful creations are, however, in great risk and their conservation is vital for the benefits of present and future generations’, says Shree Ram Subedi, President of Bird Conservation Nepal.

“The bird photographers have become dedicated conservationists with a great deal of passion toward biodiversity conservation”, says Dr Hum Gurung, Chief Executive Officer of Bird Conservation Nepal.  The Bird Painting and Photography Exhibition was very popular among the general public from the first opening day.

Also we participated and exhibited its awareness materials in the Students’ Conservation Conference and Exhibition organised by National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) from 5 to 7 June 2011. The conference was inaugurated by Rt. Honorable Prime Minister, Jhalanath Khanal on 5 June 2011. BCN's publications, merchandises and posters were displayed during exhibition. BCN's volunteer shared various information about birds of Nepal and distributed newsletters and brochure to thousands of visitors visiting the stall.  Mr. Dikpal Karmacharya, BCN's Jatayu Scholarship winner (2009-2010) was awarded with Best Student Paper Award (First) in the conference. He presented his Master Degree thesis entitled " Population Status, Breeding Success and Conservation Approaches of Vultures with special reference to Himalayan Griffon" on the conference.