Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN)

World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

It took a GPS tagged crane two hours to reach Kangmar County in Tibet from Phobjikha (Image: UWICE)

Around 2pm on February 27, Ugyen Wangchuck Institute of Conservation and Environment (UWICE) director in Bumthang received an email.

It was from Kangmar County under Shigatse province in Tibet.

What director Ngawang Norbu received on his Gmail account was sent from the backpacked global positioning system (GPS) tag of a black-necked crane, pet named Ugyenling that left Phobjikha in the morning of the same day.

World Wetlands Day was observed on 2 February 2013 in Thimphu by a small group of individuals who are registered members of Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN). The day marks the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2^nd February 1971 in Iranian city of Ramsar. The Convention is more popularly known as Ramsar Convention. Currently there are 163 countries as the contracting party to the convention and Bhutan is 161^stmember of the convention with two Ramsar sites (Wetlands of International Importance).

The RSPN camping held from 6th to 12th January, 2013 at Wolathang under Punakha Dzongkhag was geared much intensely at sensitizing the youth of their role as individual and as future citizen in the preservation and promotion of nature. The camping was to enhance wider comprehension of various aspects of nature and to instill in them the sense of responsibility as the benefactor from nature. The entire camping session was dedicated towards making the participants visualize, listen and conceptualize the unaware issues and thus provide them with the platform from where they can act wisely and as a naturalist.

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