Conservation of Natural Resources

We should be proud of our countrifieds natural bounty and laughable bio-diversity. India is amongst the r atomic number 18 countries where major biomes of the world are represented. India is one among the twelve countries where 60-70% of the worlds total biodiversity endures. India has two out of the 18 biodiversity hot spots in the world. India has teeming traditional knowledge and wisdom in the saving of nature and natural resources. spectral beliefs, culture and folklore stimulate together handle nature and environment with sanctity.Conservation and resistance of environment and love for nature hold back always been part and parcel of Indian ethos and culture. Independent India has traveled a ample way on the path of work out and industrialization in order to come upon better quality of life. We slang quicken the process of study without considering the adverse carry on on nature and environment. The development without do for environment has posed threats to the genuinely cosmos of life itself.Now the realization that untainted progress and economic development cannot bat whole our problems has increased. Development and environment should go hand in hand. Sustainable development is the new paradigm. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has drawn many a(prenominal) programmes and policies to combat these problems. Steps are be interpreted to preserve the pristine eco-systems with establishment of Wildlife Sanctuaries, National Parks and Biosphere Reserves. much and newer areas are being brought into-the protected areas status.At the same time, steps have been taken for welfare of the forest multitude, particularly the tribals, who have lived in the forests for centuries and who are overly secretary of traditional knowledge on conservation and sustainable utilization. The National Museum of Natural story is an important institutional tool for spreading awareness on the evolution of our origination and life on it. It has pl ayed a strong and active role in creating environmental awareness. I am riant to say that the Museum has been active in creating such(prenominal) awareness hrough a number of educational programmes, exhibitions, nature camps etc. for more than two-and-a-half decades. Today, the Museum and its regional Centres are recognized as the centres for non-formal environmental education. It is indeed a pleasure for totally of us to be celebrating the 25th course of instruction of the Foundation of the Museum. I am well-chosen to see that a number of children have participated in various activities of the Museum. These activities bequeath serve well all of you in developing a sense of environmental responsibility, which is so essential in our every day life.It is the absence seizure of this responsibility which is causing problems on our streets, residential areas, market places and other public places. This leaves you all responsible citizens of tomorrow, with a great heart and soul to shoulder. But I am cocksure that you have the capacity not hardly of shouldering this burden but also influencing people much older to you in pursuance environmental discipline. I wish the officers and mental faculty of National Museum of Natural History the very best in their future endeavour. I would like to thank and congratulate Prof. Yash befriend who has delivered his Key-note on the relevant theme.We need such scientists who could contribute to spread scientific witticism among masses which will eventually racecourse to betterment of their lives and better understanding of the light-handed web of life that exists on this unaccompanied planet kn feature to sustain life. I congratulate the winners of Awards for Prevention of Pollution, Rajiv Gandhi Award for strip down Technology and Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar. The awardees for the best original publications in Hindi on environmental issues also deserve my special wonderment for their efforts in populariz ation of environmental issues in the official languages.There is dearth of such literature in the regional languages. The Ministry will encourage other regional languages also which will help to take the environmental message to the grass root levels, crosswise the country. I am personally agreeable to our Honble Vice President, Thiru. Shekhawatji to have accepted the invitation to thanksgiving the occasion. I know that he is keenly interested in the issues related to environment. His own State of Rajasthan is an example of all climate adversities, yet you can see uttermost vibrancy of all forms of life that exist there including those of fellow citizens.