KOCHI: Students are donning the role of green educators in Chalakudy. While learning themselves about the ways to protect Nature, the students will also give lessons to people on the need for going green and adopting environment-friendly ways of life.
Taking a break from the hectic academic sessions, students of schools in Chalakudy river basin will speak to tourists reaching the Vazhachal forest division on Saturdays and Sundays about the need for protecting Nature and avoiding plastic.
The programme is being jointly implemented by the Forest Division and the River Research Centre, Chalakudy.
During the campaign, the students will talk to tourists about the need for keeping the forests and rivers clean and fresh.
They will also highlight the need for reducing the consumption of plastic waste in Athirappilly – Vazhachal forest area.
Twenty students each from the schools will join the campaign with placards and stickers till afternoon on holidays. While pasting the stickers on the tourist vehicles, they will speak to the visitors about the environment hazards caused by plastic, said A.B. Zabna, the project coordinator of the Centre.
The Division had earlier launched a campaign to collect the plastic bottles dumped in the tourist zone. It had also fined visitors who were found leaving plastic bottles in the area.
The segregation of plastic waste for recycling is also planned, said A. Ranjan, Divisional Forest Officer.
The Centre had been organising camps, seminars, classes, river walks for children as part of the environment sensitization programme.
Source: The Hindu,9-12-2010
Taking a break from the hectic academic sessions, students of schools in Chalakudy river basin will speak to tourists reaching the Vazhachal forest division on Saturdays and Sundays about the need for protecting Nature and avoiding plastic.
The programme is being jointly implemented by the Forest Division and the River Research Centre, Chalakudy.
During the campaign, the students will talk to tourists about the need for keeping the forests and rivers clean and fresh.
They will also highlight the need for reducing the consumption of plastic waste in Athirappilly – Vazhachal forest area.
Twenty students each from the schools will join the campaign with placards and stickers till afternoon on holidays. While pasting the stickers on the tourist vehicles, they will speak to the visitors about the environment hazards caused by plastic, said A.B. Zabna, the project coordinator of the Centre.
The Division had earlier launched a campaign to collect the plastic bottles dumped in the tourist zone. It had also fined visitors who were found leaving plastic bottles in the area.
The segregation of plastic waste for recycling is also planned, said A. Ranjan, Divisional Forest Officer.
The Centre had been organising camps, seminars, classes, river walks for children as part of the environment sensitization programme.
Source: The Hindu,9-12-2010
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