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international level, it does not take long time to prevent different forms of environment
degradation and solve various environmental issues. People should join their hand and
work together to keep the environment clean and green.

Major programmes for caring the earth

Conservation of nature and caring the earth is the responsibility of all the people. Only the
effort of and individual is not sufficient for conserving and caring the earth. People of all
places and countries should be organized and carry out some programmes for conserving
nature and earth.
Some major programmes organized to care and conserve the earth are briefly described
below.

i. Worldwide conservation strategy

Only one or two countries cannot contribute to conserve and care the earth. All the
countries should have common and collective commitments to minimize environment
degradation and conservation of nature. For this, World Conservation Strategy has
been drafted at international level and it is being implemented in different countries.
Environmental issues have been made the global issues and various international
level programmes and conferences have been held in different places of the world for
emphasizing the environment conservation and sustainable development.

ii. National conservation policy
All the nations should formulate and implement the appropriate policy to conserve the
natural environment within the country as per the commitments they have expressed
at international level. The programmes for caring the earth can be more effective and
practical only when the people at local level and nations at national level participate
actively in the environment conservation programme.
Many countries have been formulating and implementing environment policy at local
level and national level. In our country also, various policies have been formulated and are
being implemented for the conservation of nature. In various decision making and policy
formulation process the environmental issues are being given due priorities. Biodiversity
conservation, Environment Education Programme, Environment Impact Monitoring
are some of the policies made and implemented in Nepal. Similarly, programmes for
forest conservation, conservation of birds, watersheds, soil are some of the environment
conservation programmes effective in Nepal. All such policies and programmes help of
conserve the nature and natural environment.

iii. Environmental plan
All countries in the world have launched their own development programmes for their
social, cultural and economic development. But all these development activities should
be well planned and properly decided for achieving sustainable development on one
hand and conserving the resources on the other hand. The integrated plan made for
sustainable development and conservation of natural environment is called environment
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