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Appendix-1
Tops three winners of Art competition / (English

translation from Nepali)

Dibek Lalchan class: 10

Shree Janabal Secondary School, Marpha

Musk Deer is an important animal. The animal is found in less quantity in our country Nepal. It is four limbed animal and is clearly figure out in one rupee note of country. Its value is because of presence of musk pod. People use this musk for perfumes, scents and medicines because of this valuable pod, people are attracted towards the animal resulting extinction of it.

Though many organizations are established for the conservation of this animal, it is not conserved equally. For its conservation people should be awarded for the conservation. So awareness raising programme should be done for the conservation of the deer. By conserve ring importance also, its production should be increased. Increased population of the deer may increased tourists resulting economic benefit in the country so people should be awarded about conservation of the animal. If people convict illegal activities there should be different punishment like jail, penalties, and others. So Resulting in decreasing rate of musk deer's extinction.

Second/ Aash maya Pariyar Class: 9

Shree Janabal Secondary School, Marpha

Musk deer found in the forest of Marpha village and chero village of mustang districts. It four limbed animal, and body is covered brown hairs. For the conservation of this animal, different activities should be carried out like; stop poaching animal by villagers, Awareness raising program about animals among the people, Legal punishment for killing the animal. Musk is an important animal so it should be conserved and if we conserve, our new generation will be able to see it.

Musk deer is such animal such animal which can't be seen and else can be seen in difficult places. In other places, it is getting extinct. But we marpha people are lucky to get opportunities to see and conserve it. We, villagers, are glad for this reason. We should not kill musk deer but if we find death musk deer also, we can get some benefit from it. For example, if a hair of musk is kept in the pillow of baby, snake will not attack. If Musk deer is live by conservation we will be benefited. And if it is dead also we can get benefits. So it is necessary to conserve musk deer and should be conserved in following days also. This will increase tourist for the observation and travelling from the different countries. tourist will increase economy. This will result in economic support for the country. So it should be conserved.



Thirds

Prakas subedi

Class: 9

Shree Janabal Secondary School, Marpha

Musk deer is one of the animal going to be extinct from Nepal. It is an herbivorous animal. This lies under the phylum chordata and mammalian group. In Nepal, musk deer population is depleting every days. It has a perfumes pod called musk pod in its body. So people unknown about its value becomes greedy and poach it illegally. May Gos and NGOs are working for the conservation of this animal. Many national parks, wildlife reserves and conservation have been established for it conservation. Poacher will be punished for illegal hunting of the musk deer. But still laws are not implemented properly. These laws are limited to acts and regulation's books only. Maximum protection is not enough for its conservation but there should be awareness programme for the conservation. People should be aware about benefits of conserving it. It can recognize different animals by their own smell.

Appendix-2
Selective Top 8 Arts drawing by Schools students of

Janawal Higher secondary school, Marpha