The ninth National Conservation Day was marked on Thursday emphasising the need to focus on conservation while rebuilding the country after the Great Earthquake earlier this year.
The ninth National Conservation Day was marked on Thursday emphasising the need to focus on conservation while rebuilding the country after the Great Earthquake earlier this year.
Nepal has been celebrating conservation day since 2008 in memory of the 24 conservation heroes who lost their lives in a chopper crash in Ghunsa of Taplejung district on September 23, 2006.
During the occasion on Thursday, Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha said that efforts towards rebuilding Nepal should ensure that future development does not come at the cost of environment degradation.
The Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation awarded Prof Ram Prasad Chaudhary with the National Conservation Award for his dedication and contribution towards the conservation sector in the country.
The award with a pursue of Rs151,000 was set up in 2014 to recognise the exemplary contribution of individuals and organisations in conservation.
Bird Conservation Nepal awarded two individuals—Pushpa Bhandari and Bijeta Thapa—with Jatayu Scholarship to undertake research on vultures of Nepal as part of their master’s course.
On this occasion, WWF Nepal felicitated three organisations and four individuals for their exemplary contribution to biodiversity conservation. Shiva Sharma of the Kantipur Publications
was given the WWF Media in Conservation Award while the Nepali Times was
awarded in the institutional category.
The Naryan Dal Battalion in Langtang National Park and Buffer Zone and the Community Forest Coordination Committee, Kanchanpur were felicitated with the Abraham Conservation Awards while Rajesh Shrestha and Sub Inspector Birendra Singh Johari were provided with the Abraham Conservation Awards in the individual category.
Chiranjeevi Khanal was awarded the Matthew Preece and Yeshi Choden Lama Young Conservation Leader Award. The awards hold a citation and Rs25,000 for individuals and Rs50,000 for organisations which have been partially supported by the Abraham Foundation.
In Taplejung, an event was organised at Fungling to commemorate the death of the 24 conservationists in the helicopter crash.
A memorial park was established in the district headquarters. Students from
Little Buddha Residential Secondary School organised a tree plantation programme on Thursday.
Madhav Parajuli, son of the late Damodar Parajuli, the then forest secretary who was among those killed in the Ghunsa chopper crash, decided to set up a centre in the park to share knowledge and experiences on conservation, environment science and tourism in Taplejung.
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