----- Original Message ----- From: nabha meghani To: promila chaturvedi Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:49095] Re: Kas Plateau
Hallo, I feel, stopping the tourists may not be a good solution to this problem. In fact we are also "tourists", and we feel that the difference between us and other tourists is that we enjoy and don't destroy the landscape whereas others possibly destroy it. Now, why don't we destroy and other do? We have learnt to appriciate the flora and fauna. Not until one starts to learn more about flora and fauna and environment, one will appriciate that and will take pains to save it. Learning / teaching is necessary. I feel instead of stopping the tourists from going there, guided tours may be of much help. forbade produces the opposite. Also good tv documentations may help. I am afraid, not many people watch such programms though :-(((((. Regards Nalini ----- Original Message ----- From: promila chaturvedi To: santosh deodhar Cc: efloraofindia Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:49095] Re: Kas Plateau It has always been the case. The tourism fills govt. coffer, but it also destroys the environment of wild area-WLS and National parks and the wilderness. Promila On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:48 AM, santosh deodhar <[email protected]> wrote: Dear All, Yes. the ecological importance of sahyadri in the life of peninsular india is seriously overlooked by us. this is the pain. santosh deodhar On Sep 30, 6:04 pm, shobha chavda <[email protected]> wrote: > In marathi Newspaper “Loksatta” , the renowned author Mr.Abhijit Ghorapade has > been writing a daily column on Kas Plateau since last two days- > “पुष्पपठारांना ग्रहण” meaning “ Eclipse to Flower-Plateau” It’s really > painful to know the effect of increased tourism and upcoming resorts > causing severe damage to the biodiversity of this most precious part of > Western Ghats. Since last 3-4 years, the tourist population is growing > geometrically > -( Thanks to the tons of articles and photos published in local > newspapers/magazines) causing destruction of rare species. It’s time to > stop this influx of tourists totally to save Kaas Plateau.By the way can > someone post the translated excerpts of his articles on efloraindia?
