Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal organised a Lecture on ‘Protected Area and Major Mammalian Wildlife of Madhya Pradesh’ delivered by Manik Lal Gupta, Scientist-B & Coordinator of the programme on Wednesday under Summer Nature Study Programme-Green Teens.
During the lecture, Gupta defined that Biosphere Reserve is an integrated ecosystem containing legally protected core zone. He detailed about the Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks of Madhya Pradesh and told that Madhya Pradesh has 25 wildlife sanctuaries and 09 national parks.
Gupta explained about the Eco-Sensitive Zones as the area around National Parks and Sanctuaries to create some kind of ‘Shock Absorber’ for the protected areas. He detailed the Bio-geographic classification of India.
Manik Lal Gupta told that wildlife includes any animals, aquatic or land vegetation which forms part of any natural habitat. He informed that Madhya Pradesh has 45 species of mammalian fauna which is about 10% of the India’s wild mammals. Gupta explained the habitat, distribution, food, present status of the mammals likes; Sloth Bear, Striped hyena, Barking deer, Black buck, Common palm civet, Dhole, Four horned antelope, Gaur,
Chinkara, Hard ground barahsingha, Indian grey mongoose, Sambar, Wolf, Jackal, Jungle cat, Leopard, Mouse deer, Nilgai, Oriental civet, Tiger, Ruddy mongoose, Rusty spotted cat, Smooth coated otter, Chital and Wild cat.
In the continuation, visit to Paper Recycling Unit of EPCO, Bhopal also organized to ‘Study of Paper/ plastic Recycling’ for participants of Summer Nature Study Programme-Green Teens. Rajesh Mishra, EPCO, Bhopal informed that first of all waste paper mixed in water. Some cloths also mixed in the mixture of waste paper for strengthen. He told that with help of a machine, this mixture converted in Lugdi. After that this lugdi converted into a sheet.