DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 24 (MExN): Nagaland State Governor, PB Acharya today advocated for a widespread and focused education initiative on nature conservation. This he stated is imperative, as the bulk of Nagaland’s forests fall in community owned areas and there is need to involve stakeholder groups like the Church, schools, markets and villages.
He further stressed on the need to develop programmes to train Naga youth as animals watching guides, to meet the growing demand for such guides, and to provide these prospective youth with alternate employment. The Governor said this during a meeting with the Assistant Conservator of Forest, Dimapur, Obed Bohovi Swu at Raj Bhavan on January 24 to discuss the conservation of biodiversity in Nagaland.
During the discussion, the Governor expressed the need of saving the state’s flora and fauna, and urged the people not to kill animals. He also asked the Forest Department to bring up proper measures to motivate the younger generation to conserve nature.
He encouraged rearing of pets, domestic animals and birds “since it reduces stress at the same time it also gives us personal satisfaction by living in harmony with nature,” informed a press note from the PRO to the Governor.
The Governor presented, as a token of this idea, two small rabbits reared in Raj Bhavan to the Assistant Conservator of Forest for his personal home rearing as a model.
