Workshop concludes
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 02 2016 :
The two-day State-level workshop on North East India's
biodiversity concluded today at Keibul Lamjao, the world's only
floating national park which is the natural habitat of rare deer
'Sangai', about 50 km south of Imphal.
Rohit George of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology
and Environment, who is also Coordinator of North East India
Biodiversity Patrol, expressed the need to actively take part in
the newly-launched India biodiversity portal to take up con-
servation initiatives.
The portal is being designed to help the
common people, researchers, scientists and other experts in
finding and identifying new species of wildlife.
"So far only about 67 enthusiasts from North East have
shared about 8,500 observations.
Manipur has just five mem-
bers who uploaded around 200 observations including pictures
of species," he informed.
Environment enthusiasts including teachers from university
and colleges, research scholars, wildlife activists, and NGO
representatives attended the workshop.