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Wildlife Department kick starts "Green J&K Drive"
7/20/2019 10:50:47 PM
Early Times Report

JAMMU, July 20: The department of Wildlife Protection kick started the 'Green J&K Drive" from Nandi wildlife sanctuary, about 25 Kms from Jammu on Jammu-Udhampur National Highway.
An impressive gathering comprising of school children, villagers, panches, sarpenches and Forests & Wildlife Officers and field staff participated in the function at Eco tourism cum Wildlife Range Office Complex , Nandni Wildlife Sanctuary. The school children from Shining Star Suketar, and Convent schools Dhansal, villagers and panchayat members planted trees with the help of wildlife field staff.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, J&K, Suresh Chugh who was the Chief Guest and the Chief Wildlife Warden, Suresh Kumar Gupta who was the Guest of Honour launched the drive by planting the Chinar trees along with other participants and officers. The programme was launched under the guidance of Commissioner/Secretary Forest MK Dwivedi , IAS.
The Chief Guest while addressing the gathering stressed upon the need of participation and involvement of local residents, panchayats, school children and teachers in plantation drives to keep the environment healthy for present and coming generations.
The Chief Wildlife Warden while speaking on the occasion stressed up on covering degraded patches in Protected Areas and planting fruit and fodder species along with native wild species so as to augment the food requirement of various herbivorous animal species and improve the habitat. He advised children to plant trees on their birth days and other religious occasion and festivals.
Welcoming the officers and participants the Regional Wildlife Warden, Jammu Region, Tahir Shawl, highlighted the drive to be carried out by the Wildlife Protection Department in Wildlife Protected Areas of Jammu, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua districts and informed that about 2 lakh plants of different fruit, fodder ,ornamental and native species along with 4.32 lakh soil binding species including ipomea, agave, bamboo and pathch sowing would be planted in different wildlife protected areas like Nandni Wildlife Sanctuary ,Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary Jammu, Sudhmahadev Conservation Reserve, Manda Deer Park, Surinsar and Mansar Wildlife Sanctuary, Jasrota Wildlife Sanctuary and Thein Wildlife Conservation Reserve covering an area of more than 235 Hactres under various schemes like CAMPA, CAPEX, and CSS etc.
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