J.M.Garg in Simla, Himachal, India.
The photographers barnstar for the generous contributions of images to help in improving the state of natural history information in the Indian region. Shyamal (talk) 11:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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

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.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Birds.


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 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) 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 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 Wikimedia Commons(arranged alphabetically & place wise). One can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.

WikiProject LepidopteraThis user is a member of
WikiProject Lepidoptera

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

He can be contacted at jmgarg1@gmail.com

The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar
For User:Jmgarg1 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)
en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.
hi-2इस सदस्य को हिन्दी भाषा का मध्यम स्तर का ज्ञान है।