Importance of flora, fauna discussed

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 9

SciRox, Science Club of Guru Nanak Dev University, in collaboration with ENVIS Hub, Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, organised a national webinar on Van-Mahotsav 2021 under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The objective of the webinar was to make students and people aware about the forest situation in India and their needs.

The key speakers of the event were Dr Manoj Kumar from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun and Rajiv Chaturvedi from BITS, Pilani, Goa Campus. Prof (Dr) Anish Dua, Dean Students’ Welfare inaugurated the session by highlighting the significance of flora and fauna in our lives.

Dr Manoj Kumar explained the meaning and need of sustainable forest management in India. His talk highlighted that the main objective of sustainable forest management is to conserve biodiversity ensuring equitable sharing of responsibilities in forest management, supply of food, security to cultural and livelihood needs of forest dependent communities. He also emphasised the importance of Forest research institute in India.

Dr Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi focused on highlighting various laws such as forest conservation act 1980, for the conservation of forest. He said that changes in climate are directly affecting the state of forests in India. “Climate disturbances lower down forest productivity and affect the habitat of various species that ultimately affects mankind,” he said. The students were also made aware about possibilities of future climate change objectives as per scientific perspective and then presented us with reality of current system and its loopholes.