Ujjain: Sustainable biodiversity and restoration of ecosystem can be achieved by reducing the harmful human intervention and making strategy for it.
Resource persons gave out this message in the international webinar on 'Restoration of Ecosystem through Sustainable Biodiversity' organised by zoology and biotechnology departments of the Government Girls Post-Graduate College and supported by IQAC under MPHEQIP in collaboration with the ESW Society Khajuraho on the occasion of World Environment Day on Saturday.
Keynote speaker of the program Dr Arun Pandey, vice-chancellor of Mansarovar Global University said that UN has declared 2021 to 2030 as the decade of ecosystem restoration.
The first speaker of the technical session Antarctician Dr IK Pai, director UGC-HRDC and centre coordinator, NRC-MHRD (Mar Sci), Goa University, said that himan activities are posing threat to the Arctic and Antarctic, which are the last sentinels of world ecosystem.
Tehlu Singh, who is field technician at Calgary Zooís Centre for Conservation Research, Canada, said that Public support is the key to ecological restoration as it is multidisciplinary in nature and requires remedial restoration and longterm restoration.
Dr Allam Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, assistant professor of botany in Usmania University, Hyderabad, said that in 2007 there were 7,000 endangered species and in 2019 their number went up to 14,000
Dr Mustafa Malik, assistant dean for UG studies, College of Economics, Management and Information Systems, Nizwa, Oman said that we are in illusion that Government, UNO and conservation laws will take care of everything, rather collective efforts are needed to save environment. Teaching sustainability is not enough it is to be lived by practicing it.
Principal Dr Anita Manchandia delivered the presidential address. The webinar was attended by more than 2,500 participants. Dr Lakhani proposed a vote of thanks.
