Hyderabad, Oct. 2:
Marking the International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in
Hyderabad, a special Science Express train would be arriving at
Secunderabad Railway Station on October 9.
The train, Science Express – Biodiversity Special (SEBS), is being
jointly run by the Department of Science and Technology and Union
Ministry of Environment and Forests. Flagged off on June 5, 2012, on the
World Environment Day from Delhi Safdarjung, the train had already
registered 12 lakh visitors as it chugs along the length and breadth of
the country.
“It has covered 25 stations so far. In all, it would touch 52 stations.
It would arrive in Hyderabad on October 9, marking the prestigious
global convention,” M.F. Farooqui, Special Secretary in the Union
Ministry of Environment and Forests, said on the sidelines of the
convention.
The train would help showcase India’s rich biodiversity to thousands of
school children and also to hundreds of delegates to the convention from
over 180 countries.
The 16-coach train would give a bird’s eye view of bio-geographical
zones of India, including trans-Himalaya, the Himalayas, the Gangetic
plain, the North-east and Coastal areas.
It would also cover myriad facets of marine, forest, microbial, agro
biodiversity and their linkage with livelihoods, besides challenges of
conservation.
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