Youth and Marine Biodiversity Conservation Deepak Apte, Bombay
Natural History Society, email@example.com ‘We adults easily
turn cynical and despondent and are often paralysed into
inaction by the enormity of the problems that confront us. But
the true champions of the oceans, our children and youths,
suffer no such infirmity. They march on… confident that with
nature on their side, they and the myriad creatures of the deep,
will outlast those inflicting unspeakable trauma on our
beautiful, blue planet’… Bittu Sahgal The fact so poignantly put
forward by Bittu that really echoes the need of an hour. Our
ever expanding knowledge on conservation science also brought in
new challenges. Our conventional ways of governing resources are
slowly becoming outdated and irrelevant. While we still need
wisdom of our stalwarts, baton of fighting conservation battle
has to now be given to the youth. If we could channelize the
rushing hormones in to more constructive way, youth can play a
crucial role in combating new chall