Dimapur, June 6 (MExN): The Wildlife Division, Dimapur organised an awareness programme on Human-Animal Conflict Mitigation on the occasion of World Environment Day 2017 at Government Higher Secondary School, Chumukedima.
The programme is part of Wildlife Divisions continuous campaign, “Maximum awareness with effective enforcement.” A press note informed that the focus of this campaign has been on school and college going students so that they understand and value the importance of wildlife and grow up with the right mindset with a right sense of responsibility towards nature and wildlife.
The officials of the Wildlife Wing explained to the participants about the threat to wildlife, its importance and their role in maintaining ecological balance and how to safeguard it from extinction. The officials appealed to teachers and students to be enthusiastic and contribute, involve and take action towards protection, preservation and conservation of wildlife so as to ensure its sustenance and continuity for the generations to come.
The Principal thanked the department for taking the initiative and conducting the awareness programme in the school and asked the student to practise in real life whatever they have learned from the awareness programme and added that in olden times, people lived for hundreds of years because of cleaner air and fresher environment but regretted that at present, our life span has been reduced to 60-70years because of pollution and environmental hazard.
The programme saw the participation of students from class VII-XII, teachers, lecturers’, headmistress and Principal beside officials and staffs from Wildlife Division, Dimapur. As part of the awareness programme, plantation was carried out within the school jurisdiction by the students where more than 100 saplings were planted.
