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These children are on a mission: Save the Big 5

Today, Mahim Nature Park will play host to the annual inter-school Tiger Fest, which is being held as part of the 'Kids for Tigers' (KFT) programme.

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It's a meeting to discuss the Big Five. Namely, the Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Elephant and the Rhinoceros

Today, Mahim Nature Park will play host to the annual inter-school Tiger Fest, which is being held as part of the 'Kids for Tigers' (KFT) programme.

The festival, which involves students from Mumbai schools like Cathedral and Bombay Scottish, is an attempt to create a platform for children from where they can air their views on ways to save India's big five mammals. In Mumbai, the Kids for Tigers programme reaches out to more than 100 schools.

The annual Tiger Fest is an opportunity for school children to meet, view each other's work, exchange ideas and compete in a friendly atmosphere. It is also an interactive way for the general public to be exposed to the work being done by students to save India's wildlife.

The various activities planned for the Tiger Fest are intended to tap the students' creative potential, knowledge and enthusiasm. The highlights include information stalls, providing solutions to save the planet, clay modelling, a quiz competition and T-shirt painting, to name just a few.

Students, teachers and parents will also have an opportunity to interact with naturalists during the festival. The 12 best drawing entries from the inter-school competition — 'Art for Conservation' — along with the decorated 'Save the Big Five' scroll will be displayed and judged at the fest.

"Climate change and deforestation have an umbilical connection. Over 25 per cent of India's greenhouse gases are a direct result of deforestation, and protecting Tiger habitats, which both sequester and store carbon, becomes a vital national, and global priority," said Bittu Sahgal, editor, Sanctuary Asia.

Kids for Tigers spans 20 Indian cities, covering 550 schools. The programme aims to bring to light the vital connection between the survival of the Tiger and the ecological security of the Indian subcontinent.

a_aghor@dnaindia.net

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