The Planet and You Program resumed after December Holidays. The month long holidays gave students the time to interact with their parents and grandparents to map the status of environment around their town over a period of few decades.
The fourth session of the program was focused to guide students to understand the importance of tiger conservation and to inculcate and sustain student interest in observing nature to become a naturalist.
The fourth session of the program was focused to guide students to understand the importance of tiger conservation and to inculcate and sustain student interest in observing nature to become a naturalist.
The Truth About Tigers’, a documentary film by Shekar Dattatri, was screened to bring to student attention the importance of tigers as apex predators and the need to save them to ensure protection of forests. Key conservation issues in India like fragmentation of forests, poaching, forests fires and habitat loss were also highlighted through the film.
This was followed by an audio-visual and story-telling session on nature around us and birdwatching, based on the book ‘Backyard wildlife: A diary of neighbourhood creatures’ by Bikramadittya Guha Roy, and ‘Watching Birds’ by Jamal Ara.
An interactive game on backyard wildlife introduced students to the idea of how they could be naturalists, even if their career interests were different. From artists to architects and engineers, students enacted the role given in the card and spoke extempore on how they would conserve nature through their career choice.
This was followed by an audio-visual and story-telling session on nature around us and birdwatching, based on the book ‘Backyard wildlife: A diary of neighbourhood creatures’ by Bikramadittya Guha Roy, and ‘Watching Birds’ by Jamal Ara.
An interactive game on backyard wildlife introduced students to the idea of how they could be naturalists, even if their career interests were different. From artists to architects and engineers, students enacted the role given in the card and spoke extempore on how they would conserve nature through their career choice.
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