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World Environment Day 6 June 2022
World Environment Day is celebrated all over the world to protect the environment. It is celebrated every year on 5th June, since 1974.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Director, CSIR-IHBT in his welcome address said that the Institute is constantly striving towards the goal of discovering, innovating, developing and disseminating processes, products and technologies from the Himalayan Bio-resources for social, environmental, industrial and academic benefits. The Institute has taken unique/innovative initiatives to encourage specific high value crops to develop livelihoods and products, while harnessing the benefit the of Himalayan environment. CSIR-IHBT is contributing to the environmental protection of the Himalayan region through its research and development activities. The institute has developed agrotechnologies for Rare and Threatened plant species such as Sinopodophyllum hexandrum, Picrorhiza kuroa, Fritillaria royalii and Trillium govanium to increase their productivity and profitability per unit land area. Efforts are also made to change their Rare and Threatened status through augmentation of natural habitat. High-valued plants of Picrorhiza kuroa and Fritillaria royali were multiplied through the tissue culture technique and the institute has also planted them in their natural habitat.
Dr. SS Samant, Director, Himalayan Forest Research Institute (HFRI), Shimla delivered a lecture on "Biodiversity Conservation and Management in context to Indian Himalayan Region". In his address, Dr. Samant gave information about the activities of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and its institutions. He further added that the Indian Himalayan region is rich in biodiversity. The flora and fauna of the Himalayas are very special and the effect of climate change is now visible in this region as well, which has led to changes in botanical and cropping patterns. Himalayan biodiversity is very important from an economic point of view, therefore, sincere efforts are required for its conservation. He laid special emphasis on the classification of plants by location-specific threats and reliance on data received from field surveys for their conservation and management. In his presentation, he provided detailed information on the region-wise features, diversity, conservation, and socio-economic aspects of the Himalayas.
In this function, the staff and students of the institute enthusiastically participated. The program was coordinated by Dr R.K. Sud, Chief Scientist concluded with a vote of thanks by Dr. Amit Kumar, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-IHBT.
It is pertinent to mention that the World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 all across the globe as an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to spread the importance of conserving planet Earth and to pledge to give back to the mother nature in all the possible ways to preserve, conserve and flourish all biological lives on the globe. The occasion calls for transformative changes to policies to enable cleaner, greener, and sustainable living in harmony with nature. It is in the year 1972, that for the first time in the world, a conference on the environment was held in Stockholm, which is known as United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference). This initiative led to the creation of United Nations Environment Programme and World Environment Day celebration.
World Environment Day 6 June 2022
World Environment Day is celebrated all over the world to protect the environment. It is celebrated every year on 5th June, since 1974.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Director, CSIR-IHBT in his welcome address said that the Institute is constantly striving towards the goal of discovering, innovating, developing and disseminating processes, products and technologies from the Himalayan Bio-resources for social, environmental, industrial and academic benefits. The Institute has taken unique/innovative initiatives to encourage specific high value crops to develop livelihoods and products, while harnessing the benefit the of Himalayan environment. CSIR-IHBT is contributing to the environmental protection of the Himalayan region through its research and development activities. The institute has developed agrotechnologies for Rare and Threatened plant species such as Sinopodophyllum hexandrum, Picrorhiza kuroa, Fritillaria royalii and Trillium govanium to increase their productivity and profitability per unit land area. Efforts are also made to change their Rare and Threatened status through augmentation of natural habitat. High-valued plants of Picrorhiza kuroa and Fritillaria royali were multiplied through the tissue culture technique and the institute has also planted them in their natural habitat.
Dr. SS Samant, Director, Himalayan Forest Research Institute (HFRI), Shimla delivered a lecture on "Biodiversity Conservation and Management in context to Indian Himalayan Region". In his address, Dr. Samant gave information about the activities of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and its institutions. He further added that the Indian Himalayan region is rich in biodiversity. The flora and fauna of the Himalayas are very special and the effect of climate change is now visible in this region as well, which has led to changes in botanical and cropping patterns. Himalayan biodiversity is very important from an economic point of view, therefore, sincere efforts are required for its conservation. He laid special emphasis on the classification of plants by location-specific threats and reliance on data received from field surveys for their conservation and management. In his presentation, he provided detailed information on the region-wise features, diversity, conservation, and socio-economic aspects of the Himalayas.
In this function, the staff and students of the institute enthusiastically participated. The program was coordinated by Dr R.K. Sud, Chief Scientist concluded with a vote of thanks by Dr. Amit Kumar, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-IHBT.
It is pertinent to mention that the World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 all across the globe as an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to spread the importance of conserving planet Earth and to pledge to give back to the mother nature in all the possible ways to preserve, conserve and flourish all biological lives on the globe. The occasion calls for transformative changes to policies to enable cleaner, greener, and sustainable living in harmony with nature. It is in the year 1972, that for the first time in the world, a conference on the environment was held in Stockholm, which is known as United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference). This initiative led to the creation of United Nations Environment Programme and World Environment Day celebration.