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ITANAGAR, 22 May:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Biodiversity Board (APBB) and the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment’s Northeast Regional Centre (GBPNIHE-NERC) jointly celebrated the International Day for Biological Biodiversity here on Monday.<\/p>\n The theme of this year’s celebration was ‘From agreement to action: Build back biodiversity’.<\/p>\n Earlier, on 21 May, “a nature learning awareness event called ‘Itanagar biodiversity walk’ was organised at the Itanagar Zoological Park,” the APBB informed in a release, adding that participants included “prospective students from Himalayan University, faculty and researchers from GBPNIHE-NERC, and staff from the APBB, who actively engaged in this outdoor activity.”<\/p>\n The board organised painting and essay writing competitions for schoolchildren, while the GBPNIHE-NERC conducted a quiz competition.<\/p>\n On 22 May, the GBPNIHE-NERC hosted a programme, during which GBPNIHE-NERC Head Dr Devendra Kumar highlighted the significance of the day and provided detailed information about the research and development programmes of the institute.<\/p>\n Retired senior research officer of the state’s forest department, Dr BB Bhatt delivered a lecture on ‘An overview of biological resources of Arunachal Pradesh: A sustainable approach’.<\/p>\n “He emphasised the remarkable biodiversity found in the non-protected areas, such as community forests, and highlighted the need for conservation projects that involve the local community,” the APBB informed.<\/p>\n APBB Research Officer Dr Bamin Yakang also spoke.<\/p>\n The celebration concluded with distribution of prizes to the winners of the painting, quiz, and essay competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 22 May: The Arunachal Pradesh Biodiversity Board (APBB) and the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment’s Northeast Regional Centre (GBPNIHE-NERC) jointly celebrated the International Day for Biological Biodiversity here on Monday. The theme of this year’s celebration was ‘From agreement to action: Build back biodiversity’. Earlier, on 21 May, “a nature learning awareness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}