Assam: Awareness Campain Organised on Greater Adjutant Stork Conservation

MARIGAON: An awareness event for the conservation of the endangered Greater Adjutant Stork for young students was conducted on Saturday in Morigaon.

The event was organised on the premises of the Bapuji ME School on Natuwagoan of the Morigaon district. A large number of students of the government school attended this event. Lukendra Chetry, Kalyan Nath and their team acted as felicitations of this event.

It can be mentioned that the awareness event was conducted to commemorate the 69th Wildlife Week by a team under Dr Purnima Barman, who is world-renowned for her work in the field of conservation.

Previously, a workshop was organised at Biswanath Ghat to spread awareness about turtles and their importance in the region. This special training camp was organised by the Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation India in collaboration with the Biswanath Wildlife Division and East Sonitpur Forest Division.

The one-day training workshop on turtle conservation and management was organised at the Nature Discovery Center at Biswanath Ghat on the occasion of National Wildlife Week. The workshop was attended by about forty frontline forest staff from the Biswanath Wildlife Division and East Sonitpur Forest Division along with a large number of local people. They were taught in detail about turtle identification, ecology and hands-on sessions on turtle nest search and monitoring, handling and practical applications of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 in enforcement.

Several dignitaries attended this event, including Dr Sonali Ghosh, Director of Kaziranga National Park, Khagesh Pegu, Divisional Forest Officer of Biswanath Wildlife Division of Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, Biswajyoti Das Divisional Forest Officer of East Sonitpur Forest Division and Pallab Deka, Divisional Forest Officer of Sonitpur Social Forestry Division They shared their knowledge and encouraged the participants to give more effort towards the protection and preservation of turtles.

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