Sunday, 8 April 2018

A special Seminar on "Introduction to Environmental Education and Biodiversity" at Indra Ganesan College of Education. Tiruchirappalli-Dt. (09.02.2018).

“Biodiversity in Education” is one of the new discipline come under the branch of conservation biology subject. There are many animals and plants currently under threats of human activities as indicated by IUCN Red List recently. In that list, coral reefs are included. Corals are a group of living creatures whose extinction rates are rising in every movement. Paramo is one of the beautiful tundra ecosystem in the World. Now, consider as sacred groves. And another kind of beautiful sacred grave is Monkey forest sanctuary in Indonesia. These are more valuable plants and animals occupied in that place. In marine ecosystem, number of living creatures are wondered. Example Leafy sea dragon is one of the beautiful deep sea animal. It creatures is just like leaf structure. Earth’s 70% surface covers ocean. This ocean have natural carbon. So it is called as Blue planet. Further, I have emphasized the importance of pedagogical techniques for biodiversity and environmental education. Here, infusion model and interdisciplinary model are recommended but domain selection is very important. Level one is an ecological foundations, level two is the conceptual awareness on biodiversity issues and values, level third is an investigation and evaluation processes and fourth level is action skills requires for training. Source: (Peyton Ben, et.al. 1995).

A special lecture on "Our Valuable Heritage-The Biodiversity" at Muthayammal College of Education, Rasipuram. Salem-Dt.(31.01.2018).


“Coral reefs” are formed by calcium carbonate materials which is secreted by corals. Corals also called as rain forest of the sea. It is very good shelter for many kinds of other marine organisms. Due to climate changes and man-made activities, it becomes under the endangered list. Dr. Venkataraman, Director, Zoological Survey of India said that Snowflake corals (Soft Corals) posing serious threat to the coral reef colonies of Gulf of Mannar and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. IUCN also pointed out, it is life supporting system and it protects from sea erosion. This invasive species of soft corals high fecundity and it may grows 20-30 meters length. Such kind of corals called as Bio-invasion species. Translocation by ship is a major problem. We have limited facility for this bio-invasion species. Hence, we shall need an awareness for such kind of bio-invasion species. In general, coral reefs give a place for other rare and endangered species.