Vice President calls upon people to adopt sustainable lifestyles in the time of Climate Change
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Our planet's
health depends upon our choices and our actions: Vice President
Vice President inaugurates the Marine Interpretation Unit of Forest Research
Centre for Coastal Ecosystem
The Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu today called upon people
to become environmentally conscious and adopt sustainable lifestyles in the
time of climate change. It is high time that we make amends to bring the
desired change in the health of our planet, he added.
The Vice President today visited the Forest Research Centre for Coastal
Ecosystem (FRCCE) in Visakhapatnam and inaugurated the institute’s Marine
Interpretation Unit created to disseminate knowledge on the marine environment
and to work with coastal communities.
Later in a Facebook post, he recounted his experience of his visit to the
centre and wrote that the display units in the Marine Interpretation Unit
showing various wood samples at progressive stages of degradation were very
informative. Naidu was also apprised of
the bird diversity of Eastern Ghats as well as species of birds associated with
mangroves along the 114 KM long coastline of the Visakhapatnam district.
The Centre is the lone establishment in the country for research on timber
protection under seawater in its total perspective. Naidu added that he was happy that the FRCCE
was conducting research on forest biodiversity and forest genetic resources
management with respect to mangroves and coastal ecosystems of East and West
coast. "Their research work on the mangrove ecosystem as well as
biodiversity of Eastern Ghats is all the more critical in the time of
ecological degradation and climate change," he added.
Naidu expressed his happiness that the centre has distributed 100
preservative-treated catamarans made of perishable timber to the fishermen of
Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as a measure towards alleviating poverty. He
reiterated that "the ultimate aim of science is to bring happiness and
make people's lives better." The Vice President lauded the centre for the
good work that was being done there for the benefit of coastal communities.