The City of Joy is back to what it is best known for rising up to a cause. In a rare show of eco-consciousness, hundreds of school students from Kolkata on Monday marched at the Brazil Consulate where they submitted a memorandum for speedy action on the ravaging fire in that country that has been eating away the world’s most diverse forest cover.
Alarmed at the steadily depleting Amazonian forest cover, thanks to the raging forest fire that has devoured about 20 percent of Amazon’s thick rain forest cover the school students carried hand-written banners to the Brazil consulate and extracted commitment for speedy pulling back of the situation, sources said adding “we have submitted a memorandum in this regard.”
Satellite pictures showed about 20 percent of the thick forest cover had been licked away by the raging fire that had reached the Peruvian borders. The rain forests of Amazon provide about 20 percent oxygen to the world.