World Pangolin Day 2022 was celebrated in schools across Tamenglong on Friday and several students took pledge to spread awareness and help save the "critically endagered" Chinese Pangolin which is found in Tamenglong district, Manipur.
Observing the event, the students of Christian Heritage Institute, Trinity Public School, United Builders School and Pretty Lamb Institute, in Tamenglong took pledge to speak up against hunting and killing of pangolin among their peer groups and in their families.
The World Pangolin Day event in the four schools located in Tamenglong HQ was organized by the Corbett Foundation in association with the Rainforest Club Tamenglong and The Forest Department Tamenglong Division.
During the event, sponsored by Indigo Reach, several awareness activities on the importance of pangolin in Tamenglong forest was highlighted to the student’s community.
The students were told about how pangolin helps in forest conservation by controlling excessive termites and ants and how it helps strengthen the ecosystem.
The Chinese pangolin in Tamenglong region is becoming endangeredd today due to degradation of forest affecting their habitat and excessive hunting or trafficking of the mammals.
The trafficking of pangolin and Wildlife protection Act 1972 along with the scheduled category of pangolin were also discussed and shared with the students.
The students in all the four schools were given posters with facts about pangolin to be pasted in their classrooms and in their notice board for all to see.
More than 500 students participated in the event along with the teaching and non teaching staffs of the schools.
According to a report published in National Geographic, "Once found in forests and grasslands across southern China, parts of Southeast Asia, and into India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, poaching and trafficking have left the Chinese pangolin critically endangered".
The scale covered Chinese pangolin has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2014.
