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Pledge to preserve rich flora and fauna of Himalayas by \u2018Wings Foundation\u2019<\/p>\n
B.D.Kasniyal<\/p>\n
Pithoragarh, May 22<\/p>\n
On the occasion of \u2018World Bio-diversity Day\u2019, today, the environment lovers have pledged to save Himalayan region by preventing deforestation to save rare and endangered flora and fauna, which is known the world over.<\/p>\n
“We have today pledged to promote\u00a0community led preservation methods, preserving traditional ecological know how, sustainable eco-system and promoting plastic free Himalayan and preventing deforestation to save Himalayan traditional eco-system,” said Jagdish Bhatt, director of ;Wings Foundation\u2019, an organisation working to save butterflies and eco-system of Himalayan from last two decades.<\/p>\nMonal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
According to Bhatt, Himalayas that is\u00a0world’s most important bio-diversity hot spot, is home to over 10000 species of flora and fauna including several endangered species. “The climate change patterns are accelerating\u00a0glacial melting\u00a0and disturbing\u00a0fragile mountain eco-system of Himalayan by endangering\u00a0it’s wildlife habitat and bio-diversity,” said Bhatt<\/p>\n
According to Bhatt, main eco systems of this part of Himalayan needs to be preserved to save its bio- diversity including Thal kedar, Dwaj and Askot wild sanctuary systems as these are home to rare bio- diversity of Himalayan region.<\/p>\nThakil palm found in Thal Kedar area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
“The Thakil region ( known as Thal kedar ) a 195 hectare wide\u00a0 1500 to 2500 meters high sensitive eco -system houses of rare Thakil palm plant (trachycarpus takil) and near threatened fauna\u00a0 like Asian King vulture and\u00a0Cinereous vulture and several other threatened flora and fauna species,\u201dsaid Bhatt<\/p>\n
“The 700 years old ecological generation bank of Dwaj region, is home to dense Bank, (Oak) Buransh and\u00a0 rich population of fern, mosses and lichens, that has been termed as last intact Himalayan temperate forest system, which needs to be protected and preserved,” said Bhatt.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Wings Foundation\u2019 took a batch of school children to ecologically rich Chandak mountain to teach them what is bio-diversity and how forests consume Carbon dioxide \u00a0to produce oxygen necessary for human existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pledge to preserve rich flora and fauna of Himalayas by \u2018Wings Foundation\u2019 B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, May 22 On the occasion of \u2018World Bio-diversity Day\u2019, today, the environment lovers have pledged to save Himalayan region by preventing deforestation to save rare and endangered flora and fauna, which is known the world over. “We have today pledged to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,92,33,1284,91,59],"tags":[4047,4046,1163],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-uttarakhand","tag-endangered-species","tag-himalayan-ecology","tag-wings-foundation-director-jagdish-bhatt"],"yoast_head":"\n
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