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Children's festival spreads message of conservation
Fourteen-year-old Shrishti Jain is concerned about global warming and is trying to spread the one message close to her heart: "Save Our Tiger and Save Our Planet."
- By Pamela Raghunath, Correspondent
- Published: 01:04 February 8, 2008
Mumbai: Fourteen-year-old Shrishti Jain is concerned about global warming and is trying to spread the one message close to her heart: "Save Our Tiger and Save Our Planet."
Like her, there were nearly 800 other school children from across Mumbai yesterday at a big party to conserve nature and save the planet at the Mahim Nature Park near Dharavi, as part of the Kids for Tigers programme.
In the sprawling park where the amphitheatre was brimming with youngsters engrossed in the music, dance and quiz shows put up by other children, it was apparent that these youngsters were out to save India's Big Five - the tiger, lion, leopard, elephant and the rhinoceros.
"First and foremost we must not cut trees that are said to be the lungs of our earth because they take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen," says Shrishti Jain, who studies in Udayachal High School in suburban Vikhroli.
"If we have to protect our forests and save our trees, we should not waste paper," she tells the younger children, who flock to her information stall to play a board game on the dangers to the earth and solutions to save the planet.
As part of the Kids for Tigers, she has been spreading the message of saving energy sources for the last five years and has even got her parents to follow in her footsteps.
"My parents were not aware of CFL bulbs till I told them about it. There has been a big change in our home," she says.
"We do not buy newspapers but catch the headlines on the internet, switch off the mains when we are out of the house."
First and foremost we must not cut trees that are said to be the lungs of our earth because they take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen."
Shrishti Jain
Nature activist
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