APOWA ►EARTH DAY 2010

APOWA - Action for Protection of Wild Animals

Earth day is an annual observance held on April 22 every year to increase public awareness on the environment. Earth Day has been used as a powerful catalyst to involve community in making a difference towards a healthy, pros­perous and sustainable future. We stand at a critical moment, a time when humankind must choose its future. While environmental degradation hurts us all, the consequences of fewer natural resources and increasing of climate change impacts strike animal biodiversity and poor people especially hard. As the society becomes increasingly in­terdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise.

Keeping in mind the importance of Earth Day, the Action for Protection of Wild Animals (APOWA) has celebrated the Earth Day - 2010 with the active involvement of School Community. Celebrating Earth day with the student commu­nity is an effort by APOWA to promote comprehensive environmental activities and also to build-up student's interest in participating similar environmental activities. The organization has encouraged young students to become active participants in the Preservation of Earth's natural resources.

Eco club students of various schools were assemble in the morning with the strong belief that it's high time to get to­gether to protect our earth and its resources. They attended with great enthusiasm and display to inspire an aware­ness and appreciation for the Earth to protect plants and animals and other natural resources in their surroundings. A group of students presented a beautiful song on our mother 'Earth' and followed by an enriching passage read by Ambuja Kundu of USAK High school reminded the students to keep the earth clean and preserve the harmony in na­ture. Number of activities were also conducted to honour the beautiful planet 'Earth'. Some students made paper bags from old newspapers. Paintings were presented by the students giving the message of Saving Environment and Saving Earth.