Conserving nature, biodiversity essential for environmental balance

Experts at a training workshop here today unequivocally called for time-befitting and effective measures for conservation of nature and biodiversity for environmental balance in the region, including its vast Barind tract.

They also unanimously viewed that both nature and biodiversity are gradually declining due to various reasons posing a serious threat to public life along with the whole ecosystem.

The Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Forum (NBCF) organised the workshop at Padma Garden conference hall discussing and devising ways and means on how to ensure safe habitat for the wild animals.

Wildlife experts Professor BK Dam, Hassan Akhter, Abdul Muttalib, Sudip Sarker, Fahad Iqbal, Ramjan Ali Sarker, Engineer Zunayed Ahmed and Monirul Haque addressed the event as resource persons.

In his remarks, Prof BK Dam said school, college and university-level students need proper knowledge about the importance of biodiversity, natural resource conservation and climate change issues so that they can contribute to this field.

To this end, there should be time-befitting measures and institutional learning for them as there is no way but to conserve natural resource conservation in the region to face the adverse impact of climate change for the greater interests of new and future generations, he said.

In the wake of abnormal declining natural resources like native crop seeds, fish and birds species and other wildlife, conservation of natural resources has become indispensable for facing the adverse impacts of climate change, the wildlife expert added.

Prof Dam opined that many native crops and vegetable varieties are gradually declining while many of the native fish species, particularly the small indigenous ones, are on the verge of extinction due to various reasons.

Importance should be given to capacity building to address climate change in the region with special reference to conservation of drought tolerant species.