Arunachal Pradesh is going to host a three-day bird festival from March 22, atop the blue hills to promote tourism by giving a big push to wildlife conservation.
Arunachal Pradesh Art & Culture Eco-Tourism Society, a local organization dedicated to promote wildlife conservation will organise the festival at Rupa and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in West Kameng district.
According to the organizing secretary Kesang Khrimey, the event aims at conserving the wildlife with a massive participation of the people and thereby to promote the tourism sector which provides livelihood for many in the state.
Interaction with wildlife experts and tourism entrepreneurs apart from heritage walk and seminars would be the salient features of the event, said Khrimey.
“We have already got confirmation of participation form experts in the field of nature conservation from the country and abroad, including Anuj Jain of BirdLife Asia (Singapore), Paul Insua-Cao of Royal Society for Protection of Birds, UK and Director of The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Deepak Apte,” she added.
Khrimey further said it would be an occasion for the people of all walks of life to share their views and ideas with the wildlife experts and the tourism entrepreneurs will have the same amount of benefit to boost their means of livelihood.