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plan. Conservation of natural resources should be equally prioritized while prioritizing
the development activities in the country. All the countries have been implementing the
environment plan while planning for their development activities.

iv. Formulation of acts and law

Different countries have formulated various Acts and Law regarding the conservation of
natural environment. In Nepal also environment law is formulated and being implemented
effectively in Nepal. Formulation of such Acts and law and their effective implementation
help to conserve nature and solve environment related issues.

v. Institutional efforts
There are various organizations and institutions established at national and international
level for the conservation of nature and natural resources. The activities of such
organizations for conservation of nature should be extended up to local level. Such
organizations should train the local people, make them aware and develop skills in
them for proper utilization of natural resources. Besides, they should organize various
programmes from local level to international level for conserving the nature.

vi. Public awareness programme
One of the most important measures to be taken for environment conservation is to make
the people aware of proper utilization of the resources. It is the people and their unplanned
activities which become the main cause of environment degradation. So, it is necessary to
launch the public awareness programme regarding the environment conservation.

Activity: 5
Organize a drama to be shown in one of the school’s programmes including the
consequence of the over exploitation of natural resource.

The earth and human beings

The earth is the common home to all the human beings. They all have equal right to
utilize the resources available in nature. They utilize those resources for fulfilling their
needs and development. But the resources available should be utilized in careful and
rational way so that we can fulfill our needs on one hand and nature is conserved on the
other hand which leads to sustainable development. Human beings obtain everything
they require from the nature and carry out all their economic activities on the earth. Such
economic activities should be well planned and over exploitation of the resources should
be stopped. Unplanned and reckless human activities destroy the natural environment.
As a result, various type of natural calamities increase which cause the destruction of
human lives and properties. So, there is an interrelation between the earth and human
beings. Human beings live in the earth and the conservation of nature is in the hand of
human beings. One of our main duties is to conserve biodiversity, natural resource and
maintain balance in ecosystem. We should not cause harm to nature or other components
of nature while utilizing the natural resources for fulfilling our needs.

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