Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal (A Regional Centre of National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi) organised a Teacher Orientation Programme on ‘Biodiversity of Central India’ on Thursday.
Thirty one teachers from various schools participated in the programme. In the first session of the programme, Museum Interpreter detailed about the biodiversity available at museum. Participant teachers also visited the permanent gallery, temporary galleries, discovery centre, traditional conservation, wetland conservation, mini-court yard etc during the museum visit.
All teachers, Officers and Officials of museum took a Pledge under Jal Shakti Abhiyaan Govt of India to create awareness towards conservation of the water. Scientist-in-charge of the museum Manoj Kumar Sharma delivered a power point cum lecture on ‘Herpetofauna of Central India and Conservation’. Sharma detailed about the categories of herpetofauna likes Reptiles, Amphibian, Caecilians. Scientist-B of the museum Beenish Rafat delivered a lecture cum power point on ‘Biodiversity Conservation: Values and Significance’. Rafat detailed about the importance of biodiversity. She also told about the sustainable development. Rafat informed that we can conserve the biodiversity on individual level.
Scientist-B and Coordinator of the programme Manik Lal Gupta delivered a lecture on ‘Tree Diversity of RMNH, Bhopal Campus and IUCN Categories’. Gupta detailed the IUCN categories. He informed about Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (E), Vulnerable (VU) plants. He appealed that Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (E), Vulnerable (VU) categories may converted in Near Threatened (NT) and least concern (LC).
Gupta also informed about the tree of RMNH Campus likes Subabool, Guava, Peepal, Banyan, White shirish, Semal, Arjun, Bakain Campus during the campus visit. Hitendra Ram from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University, Bhopal delivered a lecture on ‘Rare Endangered Floral Diversity of Central India and Conservation’. He detailed about importance of Floral Diversity. Products, Seeds, Photographs along with detailed information about flora of Central India; were displayed during the programme.