Today, our universe is ravaged by the effects of climate change and there is an increasing urgency to preserve our environment. As a responsible corporate citizen, NDB partnered with the “Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka” to implement a sustainability awareness program for schools island-wide.
This project under the theme “Leaders for Sustainability” aims to nurture and promote students to act as “Sustainability Leaders”, promoting the conservation of our environment and acting as “Change-agents” of society.
The program focuses on biodiversity and birds. Sri Lanka is blessed with a high biological diversity which has also been a major source of food, medicine and a resource for many utilitarian products. Development has had a detrimental impact on our biodiversity and the need for conservation and sustainable use of our biodiversity has become an urgent need. Interestingly, the study of ‘Birds’ has contributed immensely for the identification of suitable indicator species for predicting and monitoring environment changes.
The project includes a 3-day field visit to the ‘Sinharaja World heritage Center’ where the students are educated and have to underatke a series of activities including field work to understand the biodiversity, birds and the envrionment.
The project was launched in commemoration of Earth day with the first batch of 20 students and 05 teachers from Kelaniya Gurukula MV.
“Earth Day” is an event celebrated worldwide each year of 22nd of April to demonstrate support for protection of the environment.