The Wildlife Celebration 2013 concluded here on Monday at Regional Science Centre premises.
The programme was organised jointly by Regional science centre in collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Biodiversity Board, Bhopal to observe the wild life week that began on October 1.
The weeklong event had various competitions and interesting activities that were organized for the school and college students.
While talking to The Pioneer, educational officer of the Regional Science Centre MM Rout said, “We organise this event every year to educate the students about the wild life week. Further this event also helps the students to learn about the importance of conserving the wildlife and also not to harm the living of the animals living in the forest.”
A film screening of science movies was organised. As many as five science movies were screened during the weeklong event.
Elaborating further, Rout said, “Various educational activities were organised for the students along with the fun and interesting activities so that it become easy and fun for them to learn about the wildlife.”
Rout also said, “It is to be noted that when people talk about wildlife they are least concerned about conservation of flora and fauna. It is never happened that a tiger or a leopard entered the village, but the mankind has reached the forests and are destroying them.”
On the concluding day of the event, activities initiated with an Open House Quiz on theme ‘Wild life’ followed by a Popular Science lecture on theme ‘Significance of Wild life in our Environment’.
The lecture was delivered by DP Tiwari, State Coordinator, MP State Biodiversity Board, Bhopal. As many as 250 students including general public participated in the lecture and learned about how to keep balance between mankind and wild life.
The programme was further followed with the valediction and prize distribution function that was organised at 12.30 pm.
Ram Gopal Soni, Member Secretary, MP State Biodiversity Board, Bhopal was the Chief Guest for the function and gave away the prizes and certificates to the participants of street play and winners of various contests organised.