4th National Nature Festival, 2012

Notre Dame Nature Study Club (NDNSC) organized a national nature festival for the fourth time, entitled “4th National Nature Festival 2012”. 

Held in the premises of the Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, this popular nature festival being first of its kind in the country has been organized by the club since 2009. 

Two days of festival on the 12th and 13th October, 2012 had several programs in it such as: Nature Olympiad, Noesis Quiz, Website design, Wall Magazine, Nature Photography, Confab Seminar, Eco-friendly Science Project display and Scientific Seminar on latest natural issues. 

Almost 1000 participants from 90 institutions and NGO's joined this festival, making it a distinguished festivity in the country.

 This festival marked a new era of scientific festivals for nature in Bangladesh, a small South Asian country, blessed with diverse biological ecosystems, species, landmass; making people aware of taking care of nature and lessen the effects of Global warming.

See the rest of the photos in here:  4th National Nature Festival photos

Notre Dame Science Fair 2012

Stepping up into the college campus, feeling the enthusiasm of learning science through researches and projects, telling the digital storytelling and encouraging the youth to know more about technology, the "National Science Fair, 2012" ended on September 29, 2012. 

Notre Dame Science Club (NDSC) organized the National Science Fair of 2012 at Notre Dame College, Dhaka. More than 50 schools and colleges showed up with their projects, researches and ideas; making it a hub of scientific ideas.

It made the young generation of Bangladesh more interested towards science and looking at children, using their mind and coming up with creative works is such a thing that you won’t find just anywhere.

See the rest of the photos in here:  National Science Fair, Bangladesh, 2012 photos

Seminar on Responsible tourism

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A seminar on “Responsible Tourism” was organized by Notre Dame Nature Study club (NDNSC), supported by USAID Bangladesh and Nishorgo Network. Having a theme of ‘Viewing nature without disturbing it’, this virtual seminar started at 12:00 PM, 26 September, in Notre Dame College. An enthusiastic learning presentation and video which was highly productive, leaving the students aware of keeping the nature, forests and wetland clean when they travel.

The seminar started with a video showing about the IPAC (Integrated Protected Area Co-management) project. There are 26 reserved areas in Bangladesh. People who live there know that place like none other and Nishorgo is doing a collaborate project named IPAC (Integrated Protected Area Co-management) with Government of Bangladesh, trying to conserve the forests and wet lands. Launched in June 4, 2008[ii], this project has some critical targets and achievements:

• Conservation and management
• Leaving something for future generation
• Implement govt. initiative in 26 Protected Areas (PA) in Bangladesh with co-operation under   IPAC project
• Co-management, help local communities to let them know how to save the environment by themselves
• There are 22000+ people working under Nishorgo Network.

Then the seminar went ahead with a new presenter talking about different types of tourism such as:

Sustainable tourism

• Do you really need to travel that many times to the same place?

Eco-Tourism

• Travelling and Eco-friendly

Responsible Tourism: Dos/Don’ts

• No harm to local sites
• Tourist’s responsibility
• Learn & Conserve
• Try contributing
• Don’t disturb wildlife
• No littering
• No loud speaker
• No outside food
• Don’t be wasteful
• Tour in small groups
• Follow rules
• Take only pictures;  take no leaves, flowers, shells
• Don’t disturb wildlife
• Enjoy the nature

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In a nutshell, they elaborated that responsible tourism is about letting travelers and tourist know about how to keep the biological diversity of the natural forests and wetlands by making them more responsible and respectful to the natural environment.

After that, there was a question-answer session and then the seminar came to an end.

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[i] http://nishorgo.org/

[ii] http://nishorgo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73%3Aipac-project-&catid=36%3Anishorgo-network-&Itemid=60

[iii]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=365760400122518&set=a.365753013456590.89918.100000656845690&type=3&theater

[iv] http://nishorgo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114&Itemid=65