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World Environment Day was marked with progressive information from residents of Veerapuram colony successful Chilamathur mandal, Sri Sathya Sai territory connected Friday (June 5, 2026).
District Collector A. Shyam Prasad launched a bid of biology consciousness and conservation activities organized by the Forest Department connected the occasion.
Interacting with the students and villagers, the Collector highlighted the value of protecting earthy resources and preserving ecological equilibrium for aboriginal generations. He said Veerapuram colony held immense tourism imaginable owed to the accomplishment of migrant painted storks for nesting. He further appreciated the villagers for playing a captious relation successful protecting the birds.
Mr. Shyam Prasad besides visited the watchtower established for tourists and vertebrate lovers who predominant Veerapuram to observe the migratory painted storks. “The colony has emerged arsenic 1 of the district’s salient eco-tourism destinations owed to the yearly accomplishment of these birds,” helium said. The Collector distributed binoculars to the students, encouraging them to larn astir the birds’ migration patterns, behaviour, and situation done nonstop observation.
He besides inspected a peculiar seed-ball stall acceptable up by the Forest Department. Explaining the process of preparing effect balls, Mr. Shyam Prasad distributed them to students and appealed to residents to scatter them successful vacant and barren areas to enactment earthy regeneration and grow greenish cover.
Meanwhile, the Collector inaugurated a recently established beverage store tally by a women’s self-help group. He stated that the DWCRA groups could play a captious relation successful strengthening the tourism imaginable successful the district.
