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style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Keep up the good work, Gargji. AshLin (talk) 20:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | India Barnstar of National Merit

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | 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}

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

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

He had held a few Exhibitions mainly focusing on Bird Photography.

He is the owner of [http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?pli=1 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 3300 members, 4,00,000 messages and more than 1,00,000 observations on 26/9/21) in India devoted to creating awareness, helping in identification etc. along with discussion & documentation of Indian Flora. He is the owner (and also maintaining & updating) [https://efloraofindia.com/ eFloraofIndia website] for documenting flora of India that is being discussed on eFloraofIndia google e-group. Around 14,000 species' pages (with more than 4,00,000 images) of seed plants, ferns, fungi & others are available with details for those species which have already been discussed in eFloraIndia e-group along with comparative images at genus and family pages. It is the largest database on net on Indian Flora.

He is also the winner of [https://efloraofindia.com/2014/03/20/award-for-efloraofindia/ Wipro-NFS Sparrow Award for 2014] mainly for eFloraofIndia.

He has uploaded around eight thousand of his best images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (more than a thousand species & eight thousand pictures), which can be seen at [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg 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

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For User:Jmgarg1 for his many pictorial contributions to Wikiproject Lepidoptera. AshLin (talk) 09:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Original Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | 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)