'Rehabilitation a very important part of disaster management'

India is prone to disasters and such disasters not only affect the mankind but also the flora and fauna, thus rehabilitation is a very important part of disaster management.
Executive Director of the National Institute of Disaster Management Satendra said this at the inaugural session of a three-day workshop on 'Impacts of Natural Disasters on Wild Animals and Mitigation Strategies' at Amity University campus here today.
"The basic objective of the workshop is to develop some tools to create awareness in society, orient the policy makers and educate the planners that they devise measures to protect and conserve the wildlife from natural disasters," he said.

Speaking at the workshop, Country Representative of IUCN- India P R Sinha said natural disasters have caused extinction of species in the past and man-made calamity act as a trigger to the disasters for such extinctions.
Sinha said it is important to create corridors in the conservation areas meant for biodiversity, so that the animals can easily sense the disaster early and through the corridor they can migrate.
"Animals are often the forgotten victims when natural disasters strike, hence there is a need to do research on the re-creation of forest and protection of wildlife," Balvinder Shukla, Vice-Chancellor of Amity University, said.