Time for Nature
The theme for the World Environment Day 2020 is "Celebrate Biodiversity" and I chose a photograph of the Western Ghats - one of the eight "hottest hot-spots" of biological diversity in the world - as a tribute to the environment with the hope that more people realise the importance of the environment and help preserve the same.
"Do not harm the environment; do not harm the water and flora; earth is my mother, I am her son; may the waters remain fresh, do not harm the waters. Tranquillity be to the atmosphere, to the earth, to the waters, to the crops and vegetation."
~ Vedic prayer seeking blessings for and protection of the environment.
Forests of the Western Ghats clicked in Wayanad. The Western Ghats, also known as Sahyadri (Benevolent Mountains), are a mountain range that covers an area of 140,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) in a stretch of 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, traversing the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight "hottest hot-spots" of biological diversity in the world. It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India. It contains a large proportion of the country's flora and fauna, many of which are only found in India and nowhere else in the world. According to UNESCO, the Western Ghats are older than the Himalayas. A total of thirty-nine areas in the Western Ghats, including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests, were designated as world heritage sites in 2012 – twenty in Kerala, ten in Karnataka, five in Tamil Nadu and four in Maharashtra.
Source: Wikipedia.
Time for Nature
The theme for the World Environment Day 2020 is "Celebrate Biodiversity" and I chose a photograph of the Western Ghats - one of the eight "hottest hot-spots" of biological diversity in the world - as a tribute to the environment with the hope that more people realise the importance of the environment and help preserve the same.
"Do not harm the environment; do not harm the water and flora; earth is my mother, I am her son; may the waters remain fresh, do not harm the waters. Tranquillity be to the atmosphere, to the earth, to the waters, to the crops and vegetation."
~ Vedic prayer seeking blessings for and protection of the environment.
Forests of the Western Ghats clicked in Wayanad. The Western Ghats, also known as Sahyadri (Benevolent Mountains), are a mountain range that covers an area of 140,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) in a stretch of 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, traversing the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight "hottest hot-spots" of biological diversity in the world. It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India. It contains a large proportion of the country's flora and fauna, many of which are only found in India and nowhere else in the world. According to UNESCO, the Western Ghats are older than the Himalayas. A total of thirty-nine areas in the Western Ghats, including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests, were designated as world heritage sites in 2012 – twenty in Kerala, ten in Karnataka, five in Tamil Nadu and four in Maharashtra.
Source: Wikipedia.