{"id":8506,"date":"2017-11-14T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2017-11-14T01:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:31:57","slug":"environmental-awareness-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/11\/14\/environmental-awareness-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental awareness campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, Nov 13:<\/strong> The ACHEW Society, a Namsai based NGO conducted environmental awareness campaign at Kids&#8217; Foundation School, Alubari and Mahabodhi Lord Buddha College, Namsai on Monday.<br \/>\nAt Kids&#8217; Foundation School, Dr. Joshuo Biswas, Coordinator, Primate Research Centre, Guwahati spoke of the need to conserve nature and environment while Namsai DFO T. Mize called for putting a halt to hunting practice.<br \/>\nChairman of ACHEW Society Chow Naching Longchout also spoke.<br \/>\nAt the Mahabodhi Lord Buddha College, the event was conducted in the evening mainly with the B Ed students, which was also attended by the faculty members and students from other streams.<br \/>\nDr. Biswas spoke on &#8216;extinction spasm&#8217;, a trend of mass extinction of flora and fauna and extinction history of a bird species &#8216;Dodo&#8217; of Mauritius.<br \/>\nDFO Mize, who attended both the programmes, expressed concern over rapid deforestation, stating that more destruction on the environment is an invitation to more natural disasters.<br \/>\n&#8220;Animals abide by the laws of nature unlike human beings,&#8221; he said, and emphasised the need for conservation of wildlife.<br \/>\nPrincipal Arun Baruah also actively took part in the interactive session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, Nov 13: The ACHEW Society, a Namsai based NGO conducted environmental awareness campaign at Kids&#8217; Foundation School, Alubari and Mahabodhi Lord Buddha College, Namsai on Monday. At Kids&#8217; Foundation School, Dr. Joshuo Biswas, Coordinator, Primate Research Centre, Guwahati spoke of the need to conserve nature and environment while Namsai DFO T. Mize called for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8506","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\/8506","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=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}