Members of the Wildlife and Nature Conservation Trust (WNCT) along with the students of Rathinam College's Nature Club joined hands to clean the Walayar Forest Range which is close to the TN-Kerala border.
Several wild life including elephants graze in the Walayar protected reserve area which often end up eating plastic wastes disposed by humans. Hence, in an intent to conserve the flora and fauna of the region, the volunteers teamed up to clean the railway tracks that crosses Walayar and other areas. Plastic covers, bottles and other wastes were collected by the volunteers.
Prior to the cleaning activity, Senthil Kumar, Forest Officer (Madukkarai Range) briefed the volunteers on the importance of forests and our responsibility to maintain them as litter free zones. He also threw light on how deposition of plastic wastes could harm the wildlife.
Prof. Panbu Selvan from Rathinam College and Co-ordinator of WNCT's Coimbatore Wing, Siraj Deen took part co-ordinated the cleaning activity.
Several wild life including elephants graze in the Walayar protected reserve area which often end up eating plastic wastes disposed by humans. Hence, in an intent to conserve the flora and fauna of the region, the volunteers teamed up to clean the railway tracks that crosses Walayar and other areas. Plastic covers, bottles and other wastes were collected by the volunteers.
Prior to the cleaning activity, Senthil Kumar, Forest Officer (Madukkarai Range) briefed the volunteers on the importance of forests and our responsibility to maintain them as litter free zones. He also threw light on how deposition of plastic wastes could harm the wildlife.
Prof. Panbu Selvan from Rathinam College and Co-ordinator of WNCT's Coimbatore Wing, Siraj Deen took part co-ordinated the cleaning activity.