World Nature Conservation Day, celebrated annually on July 28th, is a significant occasion dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of preserving the natural environment. Nature conservation is a critical aspect of ensuring the sustainability and health of our planet.
The theme for World Nature Conservation Day 2025 emphasizes the urgent need for protecting biodiversity, restoring degraded ecosystems, and promoting global cooperation to ensure a sustainable future. It highlights responsible resource use and collective action for conserving our planet’s natural heritage.
Save the Earth, Save Yourselves.
Think green. Be green. Stop polluting.
I admire young people who take a stand against Climate Change. They are far more alarmed than those our politicians and bureaucrats who provide only sound bytes and photo ops. Youngsters have a longer perspective, which is further accentuated by the possibility of having children someday.
Only a fraction is spent by the West on Conservation of Nature and inexplicably many scores more on arms and defence equipment. Needless to say the man made wars of the type in Palestine, Ukraine and pushing further boundaries without any sense. And they call themselves DEVELOPED nations and look down upon tribals and less developed countries as pagans.
Nature Worship was the cornerstone of existence for Native Americans, Africans, Indian Sub-continent and all of Asia. Take Kodagu – the density of Devarkadus was the mist in the world and the green landscape was a natural protection from outside marauders. Roads and bridges have made a new menace in the form of excessive tourism. Time to press the reset button.
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Who could have imagined that Lucknow would move from 41st to 3rd in the ranking of Clean Cities in the country. We talk about doing away with garbage in our district – let’s start with our major towns.
The garbage thrown outside our towns attracts starved wild animals and vermin. Our rivers and Streams are polluted. Tourist spots are littered with garbage and liquor bottles. Surely all of us with some help from the District Administration can clean this mess.
The perfect example of where community commitment helped was during our he Kodavaame Balo Nadp. Can we use that example to reenergize ourselves and KEEP OUR TOWNS FREE OF GARBAGE?
The tenets of World Conservation Day should be part of our daily lives…. every day living. We were taught as young children not to waste anything, cleanliness is next to Godliness, there was hardly any plastic and no food deliveries that generates more waste than food delivered.
In our beloved Kodagu, the biggest impact will be by following Responsible Tourism in the truest sense of the word.