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School children with officials of forest department during the weeklong observation of the wildlife week at Peren district.[/caption]
Dimapur, Oct. 8 (EMN): The Peren forest division Wildlife Week celebration was organised at Jalukie Forest Resource Centre, where Eco-Clubs under Peren district presented their annual eco-club activity in the form of painting during the programme. 67 schools participated in the competition.
During the second part of the programme, which was a formal one, Dr. Sentitula. IFS, DFO Peren presented a meaningful and thought provoking address. She reminded first to everyone present that the wildlife was decreasing in the forest but increasing in the towns. To drive home her point, she quoted Mahatma Gandhi, “Humans give your hands towards conservation, not to destroy them.”
She also said that there is a big disconnection between learning and practise and the root cause for all is the “greed”. Therefore, she challenged the students of their presumption that future belongs to younger generation and encouraged ‘to Learn, love and live with wildlife’.
A movie on “Facts about Tigers” was screened during the programme. The Range Officer Jalukie Punseni Khing briefed about the highlights of the movie explaining the basis of prey-predators relationship, the life cycle and nature of the big cat, “The Tiger “and its need to conservation. There was also an open quiz competition based on the Movie. The quiz was led by Aluiwang and Manav. The students actively participated in the quiz. The school that begged the maximum prizes in the quiz were Baptist High School Jalukie,GHSS Peren,Ramzie School,Jalukie,St.Xavier’s School, Jalukie, GHSS Jalukie and GHS Jalukie - B. In the Annual activity painting the first prize was begged by GMS DC Colony Peren, second prize by GPS Chalkot and third prize by GPS Songlhuh.The programme ended with a concluding remark by Obed. ACF in-charge Peren Range, followed by benediction by Medolezo Kire Deputy Range Officer, Rubber unit, Jalukie.