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A symposium sponsored by West Bengal Bio-diversity
Board (WBBB) on "conservation of bio-diversity ~ Information
and documentation" was held at Acharya Brajendra Nath
Seal College in Cooch Behar today. The programme was jointly
organised by Post Graduate Department of Zoology and Department
of Botany. District magistrate of Cooch Behar Mr Rajesh Kumar
Sinha inaugurated the symposium while the principal of the
college, Dr BK Roy, delivered the welcome address.
During paper presentation session, eight papers were presented
in animal science section. Prof DC Deb presented the plenary
lecture.
Prof J Pal, Mr S Ghosh and others also addressed the session.
Seven papers were presented in plant science section. Prof
AP Das delivered the plenary lecture. Prof AK Singha Roy,
Dr JC Jana, Dr S Moitra, Dr A Sarkar, Dr D Chattopadhyay and
Mr S Naskar also spoke in this section.
Water quality of Baneswar Shivdighi and conservation of turtle
and Shivdighi, conservation of medicinal plants of north Bengal
and pest diversity of north Bengal were emphasised at the
symposium.
Among the participants were the teachers of Uttar Banga Krishi
Viswavidyalaya and Acharya Brajendra Nath Seal College, scholars,
schoolteachers, representatives from non-government organisations
and science groups and eager students.
A spokesman of the organising committee, said: "It is
now widely appraised that ecosystem functioning is dictated
to a large degree by bio-diversity and the community structure
results from factors such as richness and evenness of the
diversity. Absence of competitive exclusions would lead to
higher diversity and slower resource partitioning stabilises
that diversity, richness in ecosystem. So rational use of
resource are necessary for general improvement of the relationship
between man and environment. People living in an environment
have better knowledge about this relationship than biologists.
The objective of today's symposium was to focus on people's
participation in bio-diversity conservation, the spokesman,
added.
Courtesy: The Statesman |
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