In view of world environment day (WED), Nagaland Law Students’ Federation (NLSF) and Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) have expressed their concerns and how more stringent actions and measures need to be taken up in order to restore and preserve the environment.
NLSF: Nagaland Law Students’ Federation stated that the world environment day “has become no more an occasion to celebration but one for concern”.
In a press release, its education secretary Shenti C. Simon and assistant general secretary Atoni Shohe stated that on this day, the NLSF called upon all to protect and restore the environment for the benefit of mankind and planet.
While stating that the prevailing pandemic had piqued the superficiality of mankind towards environment, it said that the human actions today had “pushed the nature beyond its limit and if we continue on this path, ecosystem loss will have severe consequences”.
“The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fact that when we destroy ecosystem, we destroy the system that supports human existence on earth”, it stated.
NLSF stated that just as people had rights, they also had duties and responsibilities to protect and improve natural environment and if they failed to take care of nature as a world citizen, there was no reason for people to exist.
While stating that various laws were enacted for the protection of environment and wild life, Nagaland Law Students’ Federation appealed to every individual to have the heart to embrace the rallying call for the protection and restoration of the ecosystems as a fundamental duty enshrined under the constitution of India.
NVCO: Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation stated that the time had come for people to develop a sense of urgency “to protect our environment as well as a sense of hope for its future”.
In a press release, NVCO media cell said that plenty of damage was done to the earth and that it was disheartening to learn that Nagaland was among “the worst performing States and UTs as per the assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index and Dashboard 2020-21” where it was tabulated annually by NITI Aayog in order to evaluate the progress of states and union territories on the basis of social, economic and environment criteria.
It said that people were failing on their part in replacing the trees that they had cut or cleared the thick forest/jungle around them either for development or construction of roads and in order to fight the menace of global warming, vigorous efforts should be made to discourage activities or development or business such as stone quarry, stone crusher, etc. which caused damages to environment.
Further, Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation called for the protection rivers and related ecosystems as well as searching for new sources of water, even in the form of preserving trees in the jungle and rocks in the rivers, as people could assure themselves of a substantial supply of this crucial substance in the future while still protecting important fish and wildlife habitat.
The organisation urged upon all the citizens to save the land.