Earth Day camp concludes
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 26 2019:
Students' Union of Kangleipak (SUK), Imphal East District Committee concluded 5 days awareness cum social service camp at Lamlong Higher Secondary School today.
The camp was organised as a part of World Earth Day celebration.
Professor L Nabachandra of Central Agricultural University (CAU), who attended the event as chief guest, said that Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970 to create awareness to protect environment.
Earth was home to dinosaurs which roamed the earth some 60 million years ago.
Natural calamities such as volcanic eruption, flood, drought, earthquake and epidemics have extinct many species from earth, he said.
The number of animals living on the land has fallen by 40% since 1970 while the marine animal populations have also fallen by 40% overall.
Overall, 40 percent of the world's 11,000 bird species are in decline, he said.
Nearly 500 species have gone extinct during the last century.
According to a 2015 study by the National Autonomous University (UNAM), 477 species have disappeared since 1900 due to man-made degradation and destruction of their natural habitats.