Mangalore : A 3-day Bio-diversity camp, to protect various species of animals and birds in their natural surrounding was organised at Golf Finch Hotel today Nov.28.

Chief Conservator of Forests, Karnataka Forest Department and Assistant Principal, Dr K S Sugara inaugurated the camp and spoke on the occasion. He stated that 70 percent of the state depended upon forest wealth to live and survey. This had created a problem for various animals and birds who normally live in forest and search for food there, due to competition faced by them from humans, he added.

It had become necessary on a world scale to protect the lives of birds and animals which enrich and entertain the human beings from the bottom level of Gram Panchayat itself. World over birds and animals had shrunk in their numbers and some of them had go out of survival, due to shortage of food, water and trees. Hence this camp had to educate those interested in Bio-diversity of animals and birds to find out ways and means to protect them, he said.

Sanjay Bijoor of CCF Mangalore Circle, DCF Palaiah, Indian Institute of Science Senior Expert Dr. Subhash Chandran and Director of Pilikula Nisargadama Dr. K.V Rav and several other educators were present at the camp.