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Judicious use of marine resources stressed
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Students taken on exposure visit
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Tuticorin: A 10-day exposure visit organised by the ‘World Wide Fund for nature (WWF)’, an international NGO, for school students from coastal villages to sensitise them on conservation and judicious use of marine resources in the Gulf of Mannar, commenced here on Wednesday.
About 500 children from schools situated in the coastal hamlets of Punnakayal, Mukkani, Threspuram, Thalamuthu Nagar and Pazhayakayal, were taken out on a field trip to Vellapatti on the first day, to provide them a glimpse of how casuarinas act as shelter belt plantation protecting the coastal areas from strong winds and other natural disasters.
The programme was funded by the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust, Ramanathapuram.
S. Anand, Education Officer, WWF, explained to the children the economic benefits of growing casuarinas, as wood of the tree makes excellent firewood and could be used for making furniture.
As part of the programme, lectures would be delivered by resource persons to tell the students about the marine bio diversity of the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve and the need to protect marine species like sea turtles, dugongs, coral reefs, from extinction.
The drawbacks of over exploitation of marine resources too would be elaborated.
Rural wildlife
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr Anand said that the WWF plans to implement rural wild life education programmes in the district during the next financial year. “We will teach children the methodologies like open count method that needed to be adopted while carrying out census of birds,” he added.
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