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An Indian View of Man and Nature*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

G.M. Oza
G.M. Oza
Affiliation:
Founding Editor of Environmental Awareness and General Secretary of the Indian Society of Naturalists (INSONA), Oza Building, Salatwada, Baroda 390001, India.
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The World Wildlife Fund and others are trying to save more than 1,000 species of higher animals (including about 257 species of mammals, 348 of birds, and 186 of reptiles and amphibians), and an almost incredible 30,000 species of plants, from extinction.

The year 1980 witnessed the launching of the World Conservation Strategy, in which human survival is the vital dimension, and in 1982 there was the Declaration of the World Campaign for The Biosphere as, primarily, a much-needed educational device (see above).

The capability of choosing our destiny thus lies within us. We have totally to reject planning which includes deaths of human beings as one of the ‘costs’. The future will belong to those who are contemplative enough to give Mankind well-founded hope and a sensible human way to attain that hope.

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , Winter 1983 , pp. 331 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1983

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