Thrust on wildlife conservation to ensure worthy living environ
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Speakers at a programme Friday stressed the need for conserving the country's wildlife and bio-diversity to ensure a worthy living environment for the people, reports UNB.
They also urged the people including young schoolboys and girls to unitedly come forward to plant more saplings in their houses and open places for protecting the natural balance.
"Everybody with responsibility should work together to protect the environment," Chairman of Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) Enayetullah Khan said while inaugurating the programme as the chief guest at the Dhaka Zoo auditorium in the morning.
The WTB in collaboration with the Dhaka Zoo organised the daylong programme in order to create the conservation awareness among schoolchildren and general public.
WTB member and former director general of Livestock Department Abdur Razzaque was the special guest at the function, chaired by Dhaka Zoo curator Aminur Rahman. WTB chief executive Md Anwarul Islam, among others, spoke at the function.
Addressing the function, Enayetullah Khan said on this day everybody in the family in all the areas should be made aware of food, shelter, energy, education and transportation to monitor each of the activities carefully.
He stressed the need for reducing the carbon footprints and protecting the wildlife and bio-diversity to face the effects of global climate change. "To combat global climate change we not only need to reduce our carbon footprints but also protect our wilderness."
The WTB chairman urged the government to increase public transport in order to minimise the private transport and also called upon the authorities concerned to ban any tree cutting without prior permission.
Enayetullah Khan, also chief editor of the United News of Bangladesh (UNB), an independent news agency, requested the government to make an inventory of all trees of the country.
Welcoming the young children, he said the children are the glorious future of the country and so they should be encouraged to help protect the endangered wildlife to keep environment healthy and beautiful.
Abdur Razzaque in his speech encouraged the children to work unitedly to protect the environment for the existence of mankind.
Aminur Rahman said everybody should have the responsibility of helping to create an environment worthy living by protecting the wildlife and bio-diversity in the country.
During the programme, about 100 participants raised their voice in favour of bio-diversity conservation through various activities like animal song and other behaviour, lectures and games on values of bio-diversity, trash clean-up and rally inside the zoo.
The children and other participants planted Neem saplings on the Dhaka Zoo campus as part of the programme. They also produced a poster on the theme of the World Environment Day 2008 titled 'Kick the Habit-Towards a Low Carbon Economy and Lifestyle'.
The participants including the chief guest and special guests wrote down their names on the canvas with a view to creating awareness and encouragement among the school kids about the wildlife and bio-diversity conservation.
They also urged the people including young schoolboys and girls to unitedly come forward to plant more saplings in their houses and open places for protecting the natural balance.
"Everybody with responsibility should work together to protect the environment," Chairman of Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) Enayetullah Khan said while inaugurating the programme as the chief guest at the Dhaka Zoo auditorium in the morning.
The WTB in collaboration with the Dhaka Zoo organised the daylong programme in order to create the conservation awareness among schoolchildren and general public.
WTB member and former director general of Livestock Department Abdur Razzaque was the special guest at the function, chaired by Dhaka Zoo curator Aminur Rahman. WTB chief executive Md Anwarul Islam, among others, spoke at the function.
Addressing the function, Enayetullah Khan said on this day everybody in the family in all the areas should be made aware of food, shelter, energy, education and transportation to monitor each of the activities carefully.
He stressed the need for reducing the carbon footprints and protecting the wildlife and bio-diversity to face the effects of global climate change. "To combat global climate change we not only need to reduce our carbon footprints but also protect our wilderness."
The WTB chairman urged the government to increase public transport in order to minimise the private transport and also called upon the authorities concerned to ban any tree cutting without prior permission.
Enayetullah Khan, also chief editor of the United News of Bangladesh (UNB), an independent news agency, requested the government to make an inventory of all trees of the country.
Welcoming the young children, he said the children are the glorious future of the country and so they should be encouraged to help protect the endangered wildlife to keep environment healthy and beautiful.
Abdur Razzaque in his speech encouraged the children to work unitedly to protect the environment for the existence of mankind.
Aminur Rahman said everybody should have the responsibility of helping to create an environment worthy living by protecting the wildlife and bio-diversity in the country.
During the programme, about 100 participants raised their voice in favour of bio-diversity conservation through various activities like animal song and other behaviour, lectures and games on values of bio-diversity, trash clean-up and rally inside the zoo.
The children and other participants planted Neem saplings on the Dhaka Zoo campus as part of the programme. They also produced a poster on the theme of the World Environment Day 2008 titled 'Kick the Habit-Towards a Low Carbon Economy and Lifestyle'.
The participants including the chief guest and special guests wrote down their names on the canvas with a view to creating awareness and encouragement among the school kids about the wildlife and bio-diversity conservation.