Formation of Biodiversity Management Committees stressed

Assam Forest and Environment Minister Rakibul Hussain today said the government was stressing the need to form Biodiversity Management Committees involving local governance bodies.
"It is very important to conserve biodiversity and our water resources, so we are stressing on the formation of Biodiversity Management Committees involving local governance bodies to regulate and keep a check on the use of natural resources", the Minister said today at a function organised to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity here.
Children should be moulded from a very tender age and made to understand the severe implications resulting from loss of biodiversity so that "we can hope to save our future generations", he added.

Chief Conservator of Forests (Wetlands) Ranjana Gupta delivering the welcome address said Assam was blessed with natural resources and biodiversity.
Chief Conservator of Forests (Biodiversity and Climate Change) and Member Secretary of Assam State Biodiversity Board (ASBB), A K Johari made a presentation on the need to conserve freshwater ecosystems and the need to learn to share water resources.
The Assam State Biodiversity Board and the Assam Forest Department jointly organised a function to mark the Day whose theme for this year's celebration was 'Water and Biodiversity'.
The Minister also released two booklets, the Bengali Version of the Biological Diversity Act 2002 and Assam Biodiversity Rules, 2010 and Glimpses of Biodiversity in Assam.