Environment and Wildlife festival

Leh city would host a 3-day festival on "3rd CMS Vatavaran-2008-Environment and Wildlife festival" from September 11 to 13 on climate change. The festival would jointly be organized by CMS, World Wide Fund for Nature India and Department of Wildlife Protection of the state. According to Chief Wildlife Warden, Jammu and Kashmir A. K. Srivastava, the festival will start from Leh and travel to cities of Agartala, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Pune and Ranchi from September 2008 to January 2009. He said the festival would provide a unique opportunity to students, individuals, film makers, environmentalists, corporate organizations, government officials and scientists to interact and make a network for enhanced cooperation, knowledge and expertise exchange.

The festival will have seminars, symposiums, panel discussions, film screening, climate change exhibitions, expert talks and competitions based on the festival theme to create awareness among the general public about the issue. In Leh, a Seminar on "Conservation of High Attitude Wetlands" and a panel discussion by children on "Environmental Concerns of Ladakh" are the other highlights of the festival. A painting competition on the theme "Bio-diversity of Ladakh" besides, climate expo, climate change exhibition and film bazaar would also be organized in the 3-day festival. Srivastava expressed the hope that the festival will go a long way in disseminating the conservation message among the masses and raising awareness about environmental issues among the armed forces by involving Indian Army and ITBP in the festival.

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