<div dir="ltr">Dear Dr Sadana<div><br></div><div>I echo the words of Maryam but saying thank you so much for what you have done for the IYRP thus far and I am sure that you will still contribute immensely to achieving the goals of the IYRP. We are happy that you will still be an active member of the South Asia RISG. </div><div><br></div><div>Arun, congratulations on becoming the South Asia RISG chair and I am looking forward to working with you. </div><div><br></div><div>KInd regards</div><div>Igshaan Samuels </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 8:04 PM Maryam Niamir-Fuller <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Welcome Arun to the GCG and we look forward to working with you and others in the SA RISG.<div>Thank you so much Dr. Sadana for all that you have done for the IYRP initiative as Chair of the South Asia RISG.</div><div>We have a few more years left until 2026, and much more to do to prepare !</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">*...*...*...*<div>Dr. Maryam Niamir-Fuller<div>Co-Chair of International Support Group for the IYRP</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Support the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 <a href="https://www.iyrp.info" target="_blank">https://www.iyrp.info</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:16 AM SEVA <<a href="mailto:vivekseva@gmail.com" target="_blank">vivekseva@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear Dr Sadana,<div dir="auto">We endorse your views and glad that you continue to be available with us in our RISG South Asia and thus with our GCG too. Your spirit is to be continued with Dr Arun our new Chair.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Vivekanandan </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 26 Mar, 2023, 10:19 pm Dr. D. K. Sadana, <<a href="mailto:sadana.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">sadana.dk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Honoured GCG Members and Respected Maryam,<div>I invite your kind attention to one change in the team managing the affairs of the South Asia region of the RISG {SA-RISG}. I had the pleasant duty of working as Chair of the SA-RISG during the last more than two years [since December, 2020]. And, I requested our teams to select/elect someone else as Chair. Fortunately, Dr Arun Dixit agreed and our teams made a unanimous decision to have him as Chair; relieving me by 31st March, 2023 just as I had requested.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Dixit is highly respected for his working on Biodiversity including Rangelands and has wide experience as per the Bio-Data also attached for perusal, please. If my learnings were more on pastoralists, Dr Dixit's expertise on rangelands would help us all make a balanced emphasis towards R and P. </div><div><br></div><div>SA-RISG has planned to meet on 3rd April, 2023 to welcome Dr Arun Dixit. </div><div>I, D K Sadana, happily continue to be a functional member of SA-RISG and ready to take up any short-term tasks in regard with IYRP.</div><div><br></div><div>May I request GCG to kindly accept and update the change - as deemed fit.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>-D K Sadana</div><div>Chair, SA-RISG</div><div><div><br></div><span>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Founder, ILSI</span></b></div><div><b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Indigenous Livestock Society - India; 21 Sector 8, UE, </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Karnal-132 001</span></b><br></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">डॉ. डी. के. सडाना. ਦਾ. ਦੀ. ਕੇ. ਸਦਾਨਾ سدانہ . دی کے Dr. D. K. Sadana </span><br></div><div>+91 94160.30654 <font size="1">Twitter</font>: @IndianBreeds </div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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