The Regional Museum of Natural History at Bhopal celebrated World Wetlands Day on Friday and organised power point presentation cum lecture, film show and painting competition at the occasion .
In-charge and Scientist-B of the Museum Manoj Kumar Sharma welcomed the speaker of the lecture Vipin Vyas, Associate Professor and Head of the Department, Zoology and Applied Aquaculture, Barkatullah University, participanting students and teachers.
During the lecture on ‘Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future’ Vipin Vyas talked about the importance of wetlands. He also informed that every water body up to depth of six meters is considered as wetlands.
He explained about all types of wetland like Inland, costal and manmade wetlands. Vyas also said that wetland provides fresh water for us and also recharge ours tube wells and wells etc. He also said that wetland also provides food for us and helps to minimize the bad impact of climate change.
In the continuation of activities, a film show on ‘lands– Wetlands– Water lands’ was screened after lecture.
Flowingly, a ‘Painting Competition’ was organized on the theme of ‘Wetlands our future’, where students expressed their views about the importance and conservation of Wetland through their paintings.
As many as 245 students from 15 schools of Bhopal, participated in these activities and showed their interest towards wetlands conservation.
The programme was concluded with the vote of thanks to participating students, teachers, principals, parents, resource person, print media, officers and officials of the museum proposed by Manik lal Gupta, Scientist-B and Coordinator of the Programme. During the programme Beenish Rafat and staff members of museum were present.