Worldwide Save Loktak Lake Campaign at Mumbai on 22nd May 2010

May 24, 2010

North East Center for Environmental Education & Research (NECEER), Imphal in partnership with a series of organisations, launched a worldwide campaign to Save the lake in 25 Cities (23 Indian Cities; New York, U.S.A and London, U.K) and 5 Towns across the globe. Save Loktak Lake: Lifeline of Manipur is the theme of the campaign.

The campaign have already been organised at 6 cities across the globe. It is to be noted that NECEER has launched Worldwide Save Loktak Lake Campaign on 7th March, 2010 across five cities as the first phase of the campaign and to mark the beginning of the second phase of a campaign was organised in Kolhapur, Mumbai.

The campaign is a year-long awareness programme initiated by NECEER, Imphal for the conservation of Loktak Lake. More than 600 volunteers, 32 city Co-ordinators, Publicity Coordinator and 1 Worldwide Co-ordinator are involved in organizing this campaign. The campaign is to create awareness about the conservation of Loktak Lake, the largest fresh water lake in Northeast India. The lake was recognised as Ramsar site in 1990. Keibul Lamjao, the only floating national park in the world is situated at the south west part of the lake. It is home to the endangered Manipur brow antlered deer ‘Sangai’ - Cervus eldi eldi and many endangered species.

Please find the attachment here ( PDF - 463 KB) . The attached file contain the report of the Mumbai Campaign which was organised at world renowned organisation the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) at Hornbill House, Mumbai on 22nd May 2010.

I hope your organization will cater this relevant piece of information to the masses of North East India and others as well.

Thanking you

*Mumbai Campaign is the seventh campaign. Coming up South Sikkim Campaign.

Yours faithfully,
James Mayengbam, Mumbai Coordinator
&
Khuraijam Jibankumar Singh, ALS
Worldwide Coordinator
Worldwide Save Loktak Lake Campaign

North East Centre for Environmental Education & Research (NECEER)
http://www.neceer.org/
http://www.neceer-imphal.blogspot.com/