Tamil Nadu Governor Dr K Rosaiah today said environmental degradation has become a serious global concern. Inaugurating the Regional Convention on Eastern Ghats, jointly organised by the Hyderabad-based Greens Alliance for Conservation of Eastern Ghats (GRACE) and the SRM University, he said the year 2005-14 was marked as United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and 2010-20 as United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.
“This exemplifies the concern and need for a global commitment for environment and sustainable development”, he said, adding, today environmental degradation has become a major and serious global concern. “For our nation, with 17 percent of global population crammed into two per cent of land area, it’s a great challenge to strike a balance between natural heritage and population and its development goals”, he said.
Dr Rosaiah said eastern ghats, which have a great impression and influence on regional ecology, economy, culture, spiritual spheres deserve a special mention.
“Its entire stretch of 1,700 km is a complex of varied ecological riches, home to tribal groups, amazing endemic species, the Red Sanders, the world’s costliest wood, and the world’s second largest tiger reserve at Nallamala”, he pointed out.
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