GUWAHATI, Mar 29: With the aim of firsthand field experience is always much more enlightening than what is taught inside the classroom, altogether 64 students were taken for education tour to the rhino abode of Pobitora Wild Life Sanctuary by NGO Aaranyak. This was informed by the NGO publicity secretary Dr Alolika Sinha here today.
The NGO in their press statement stated that all the 64 students belong to six different schools located close to Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary and they have grown up in this biodiversity-rich area without getting an opportunity so far to visit Pobitora WLS. The students have been facilitated with a trip inside the sanctuary to let them witness and feel for themselves the rich biodiversity. Through the press stamen the NGO senior environment educator Jayanta Kumar Pathak informed that it will definitely create a lasting impression on young minds and inspire them to conserve the natural heritage.
The students were engaged in various exercises and games like brain mapping session, tree hugging, landscape observation and expression, leaf album making, Jeep Safari and creative leaf collage making. Effectiveness of Forest Therapy also introduced in the programme, the NGO added.
While stating the purpose of the initiatives, the NGO said that exposing a young student to the richness of a protected biodiversity area is bound to be more attractive to learn about the nature and acquire a deep liking for nature then sitting in the class listening to their teacher talking about nature and its resources.
“Rewilding, is what the premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has attempted when it has taken 64 high school students in two groups on an education tour inside Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS) on March 28 and 29 and also engaged them in nature-oriented exercises and interactions with conservation educators, forest officials, wildlife biologists, wildlife photographer/filmmakers,” said the NGO.
The NGO further informed that the programme was organised in collaboration with Authority of Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Pobitora Ecotourism Development Society (PETDS) under the sponsorship of LEA Associates South Asia Pvt. Ltd (LASA).