Climate changes need to monitor in hill areas, says experts
PR, KalimNews, Darjeeling May 10, 2018: "We need to carefully study climatic changes
occurring in the Darjeeling hills and take appropriate measures for
adaptation", said Mr. Amar Singh Rai, MLA Darjeeling, while inaugurating the
three-day workshop, began in the Darjeeling, today. He said that certain
vector borne diseases are slowly emerging that were never heard of few years
ago. This may be due to climate change. "Environment scientists must find
out the reasons behind it", he said. He urged the media, civil society
organization and government officials to work together to sensitise and to
create awareness on climate change as it is the need of the hour.
The workshop was organized by Centre for Media studies, Indian Himalayas
Climate Adaptation Programme (IHCAP) of the Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation (SDC) and Department of Science and Technology(DST) Govt of
India with state partner Department of Science Technology and Higher
Education, Government of West Bengal.
The objective of the workshop is to brainstorm and share experiences on
environment reporting with a special focus on climate change.
During the workshop, experts from leading research institutes and the state
government officials spoke about different aspects of climate change
adaptation in the hilly districts of West Bengal.
"These kinds of workshops are being organized to make media persons aware
about the importance of climate change and how it should be communicated to
the masses," says Mr. Shirish Sinha, Deputy Director, SDC .
Mr. Dinesh C Sharma, Managing Editor, India Science Wire, says, "Journalist
should appreciate that climate change is not an event but a process.
Focussing on people and communities while reporting about climate change
impacts could make interesting stories. At the same time it is important
that we keep science of climate change intact and quote experts".
"These workshops give participants a platform to interact with state level
experts on climate change and media fraternity on various aspects of climate
change," said Ms. Annu Anand in her welcome address. She informed that seven
such workshops have already been held in Almora (Uttarakhand), Imphal
(Manipur) and Gangtok (Sikkim), Shillong (Meghalaya), Aizawl (Mizoram),
Kohima(Nagaland) and Itanagar(Arunachal Pradesh) and this is eighth
workshop in the series.
Other environment experts who were present during the workshop were Dr.
Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, Dy. Director General of Meteorology & Scientist,
Regional Meteorological Centre, Government of India, Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal,
Director, Landslide Studies Division, GSI, Ms. Subrata B. Dutta, Senior
Scientist, Department of Higher Education, Science & Technology and
Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal, Mr. Prahalad Chetri, Project
Director Darjeeling Tea Research Association, Darjeeling, Mr. Mrityunjay
Choubey, SeniorScientific Officer, Tea Board of India and Mr. Saikat Pal,
Secretary, Rajarhat PRASARI.
The Indian Himalayan Region is one of the most vulnerable mountain systems
in the world. If effective measures are taken in time, experts believe, it
may be possible to prevent further degradation of the ecosystem. It is also
expected that these workshops would enhance the capacity of environmental
journalists and highlight climate change adaptation issues in local and
regional context.
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