Dhangadhi, June 19 : An extensive forestry camp and exhibition was organised at Trivenighat of the Khaptad National Park under the aegis of the Far-west Regional Forestry Training Centre, Dhangadhi.
The Khaptad National Park is well known for its rich varieties of flora and fauna.
The exhibition was organised with the objective of raising people’s awareness on issues of community forestry, soil-conservation and environmental protection.
Publicity materials promoting community forestry, samples of medicinal herbs found in the hilly and mountainous regions, essential herbal oil, implements used in forest protection and management, resin collection, nursery preparation and puppets and dolls on community forestry school programme were put on display at the exhibition.
Similarly, video shows on forestry, soil-conservation and environmental protection were also organised on the occasion.
The Bhanudaya Community Forest Users’ Committee from Dahakot, Bajura had also kept a stall at the exhibition featuring different medicinal herbs collected from the forest.
Inaugurating the forestry exhibition, MP Bhakta Bahadur Balayar appreciated the forestry camp organised in the remote Khaptad region.
He expressed the view that exhibitions of this kind would promote environmental awareness among the local people.
Assistant programme officer of the forestry training centre, Dhangadhi, Mr Mahendra Dhungana shed light on the objectives of the forestry camp.
Member of the Khaptad area tourism development committee and senior geologist Dr Tanka Prasad Ojha underlined the need for people’s participation in sustainable environmental development in order to attract more tourists to the region.
On the occasion, MP Balayar released an audio cassette album prepared by the far-west regional forestry training centre.
Some 2,000 persons from Bajhang, Doti, Achham and Bajura districts are said to have visited the forestry exhibition camp organised on the occasion of the Ganga Dashahara festival which takes place at trivenighat every year.