Environment awareness programme organized

DIBRUGARH, Nov 18: An environment awareness programme was organized by the Eastern Assam Zone of Aaranyak at Rupnagar Jatiya Vidyalaya here recently.

The resource persons on the occasion were Deputy Ranger of Dibrugarh Forest Range, Soumendra Saikia and a member of the NGO, Alok Kar Dowerah. The forest official spoke on bio-diversity and climate. Sharing his experiences with the students, he explained how the plant and animal world obeyed the laws of nature. Alok Kar Dowerah, who is a BSc 2nd year student of Dibru College, discussed about the declining population of vultures and the need for their conservation. He went into the causes of the decline in the number of the scavenger, besides giving an account of the efforts currently on to save them.

Incidentally, Dowerah was the first child scientist of Assam to do a project on vulture and represented the district in the State-level National Children’s Science Congress held at Tihu in 2006.

The assistant co-ordinator of the Eastern Assam Zonal Unit of Aaranyak, Sailendra Mohan Das, chaired the meeting. He also presented a LCD show on Hollock Gibbon.

The co-ordinator of Eastern Assam Zone of Aaranyak, Rupam Kumar Gogoi, who is involved with Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Programme of Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) at Bhopal, the headmistress, Gitali Gogoi, member of Aaranyak, Himanshu Bailung and the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school were also present in the programme. Some books and posters were presented for the school library. THE SENTINEL