{"id":222111,"date":"2023-08-11T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=222111"},"modified":"2023-08-11T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:55:14","slug":"workshop-on-sbsap-organised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/workshop-on-sbsap-organised\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on SBSAP organised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 10 Aug:<\/strong> A district-level workshop on the state biodiversity strategy and action plan (SBSAP) was conducted here on Thursday by WWF-India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DC (i\/c) Rinchin Leta, who chaired the meeting, which was attended also by Tawang DFO Piyush Gaikwad, heads of offices, panchayat leaders, and others, said that &#8220;it is a matter of pride that Arunachal Pradesh has the highest forest coverage biodiversity,&#8221; and added that &#8220;merely including it in the action plan will not serve the purpose. We should work towards conserving the state&#8217;s biodiversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He requested the WWF-India members to &#8220;include incentive-oriented projects for employment generation to the locals with minimum damage to the natural biodiversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the district has many medicinal plants and other resources, he requested that &#8220;the action plan submitted to the government should benefit locals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaikwad in his speech said that &#8220;the local people are not aware of the rich resources, and the benefits are availed by outsiders.&#8221; He added that &#8220;cordicep, which is available in Tawang, could be a very good source of income with proper marketing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DFO also raised concern over the &#8220;outlet of sewerage system of defence establishments in high mountains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WWF-India member Ranju Dodum in a presentation informed that &#8220;the forest cover of our state is around 79%, with six major types of forests,&#8221; and advocated &#8220;sustainable development and nature-based livelihood by promoting ecotourism and converging various schemes to conserve biodiversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed that the action plan will align with the Pakke Declaration on sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The participants later submitted measures to be included in the action plan. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWANG, 10 Aug: A district-level workshop on the state biodiversity strategy and action plan (SBSAP) was conducted here on Thursday by WWF-India. DC (i\/c) Rinchin Leta, who chaired the meeting, which was attended also by Tawang DFO Piyush Gaikwad, heads of offices, panchayat leaders, and others, said that &#8220;it is a matter of pride that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222111","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=222111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}