13 Year Girl Yugratna Srivastava Speech on Climate Change

" I am 13 years young Yugratna from organisation Tarumitra,
meaning Friends of Trees, which is an NGO of 1600 high
schools and involved in promoting environmental awareness.
I feel privileged to represent children and youth, 3 billion of the
world’s population in this Summit on Climate Change.
I am so much concerned about climate change because
I don’t want our future generations to
question us just as I am questioning

the need of more concrete action on climate change today.

The Himalayas are melting, polar bears are dying, 2 of every 5
people don’t have access to clean drinking water, earth’s
temperature is increasing, we are losing the untapped
information and potential of plant species ,

Pacific’s water level has risen,
Is this what we are going to hand over to our future generations?
Please…….no!

We received a clean and healthy planet from our ancestors and
we are gifting a damaged one to our successors?

Is their any justice in this?

Honourable Excellencies, we need to call for an action now. We
have to protect the earth not just for us

but for our future generations.
If not here then where, if not now then when and

if not us then who?

Please listen to our voices.

The future needs strong vision and leadership!

One month ago, we had a TUNZA International Children and
Youth Conference in Korea.

The 800 participants and several thousands online developed

a statement requesting you as leaders to:
Agree on a more fair, just and action oriented post-Kyoto
agreement adopted and implemented by all countries
Not just formulate policies but also enforce them by
translating them into actions.

1. Please stop the people who are making Mother Earth Cry.
2. Why cut the oxygen generating forests

to create CO2 generating industries?
3. Include carbon and ecological footprint information in products.
4. Adapt to a green economy and sustainable production.
5. Develop a multi-national climate facility to monitor
climate response strategies.

The high tech. society and currency deposits in bank are of no
use if we don’t have a compatible biosphere.
In the awareness, it is not just about
solving an environmental problem….

but it is exclusively about changing the mindset and
attitude of people!

Educate students about the climate change by making
environmental education mandatory at all the levels of learning.
To get a sustainable Earth, we don’t need to stop the
developments. The need is quest and expansion of affordable
eco-friendly technologies available to common man like Energy
Efficient Campuses, Bio-fuels and Renewable energy sources.

I just want to ask all the world leaders two questions:-
1. Do environmental problems recognize any geographical or
political boundaries and age groups? My answer is certainly no.
This is why, we have the UN to talk each other about these
issues. I request you to please include the voices of children and
youth in all your decisions.
2. If national security and peace, and economic growth are
priorities, than why not climate change?
I know that you all are great leaders but overall we all are
humans. We all have a kind heart. I am sure that UN
negotiations at Copenhagen this year will end with
recommendations for good of humanity…and they have to.
Whatever has happened in the past is over.

We just have present and future in our hands.

Let’s act in the present to secure our future.
We have one Mother Earth: Care it and Share it.

Respected leaders, when you all make policies, please think of a
child suffering in greenhouse heat and

think of the species craving to survive.

Mahatma Gandhi said “Earth has enough to satisfy everyone’s need but no one’s greed"

A bird can fly in air, a fish can swim in water,

a leopard can run far faster,

But we the humans have been supernaturally gifted with mind….

a capability to think, change and reform ….

so come on let us all use these abilities to save our birthplace….

our home…. our mother earth!

Thank You !!! "

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Jim Corbett National Park, tigers, leopards and elephants

India’s world famous Jim Corbett National Park reopened for public on Sunday (October 05) after a nearly three-month monsoon break.

However, the park will be initially open only for the day visit and authorities said the night camping would be made available from the usual November 15 only. “The park has been re-opened for visitors and on the first day we took a group of 50 school children for a trip around the park,” said D.S. Rawat, Warden at Jim Corbett.

Locals and tourists thronged the park, one of the major tourist attractions in India’s northern Uttarakhand state, and said they were happy at the park’s opening. For the children visiting the park, the trip was a refreshing experience after the grueling school work. Jim National Corbett Park named after the hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment in 1936-is the oldest national park in India.

Having sub-Himalayan belt geographical and ecological characteristics, the Park contains 488 different species of plants and a diverse variety of fauna. “We have come here from very far and it’s a new experience for us. It’s an educational trip and it’s a kind of refreshing experience for us. We saw many different animals here and it’s a very beautiful place,” said Riya, a tourist.

Situated on the foothills of the Himalayas, the Corbett Park is well-known for its tigers, leopards and elephants.

Famous as a tiger reserve with a count of 92 tigers, the park is also home to leopards, jungle cat, fishing cat, Himalayan Palm civet, tuskers, crocodiles and gharials. Thick jungle, the Ramganga river, and plentiful prey make this reserve an ideal habitat for the critically endangered Bengal tiger of India, to secure survival of which is the main objective of Project Tiger, an Indian wildlife protection initiative.

The place is known as the best place in northern India to observe magnificent Asian elephants at a fairly close range.

Uttarakhand’’s Herakhan temple

Uttarakhand’’s Herakhan Temple, which is located at the foothills of Mount Kailash and along the banks of River Gautama Ganga, is today a major attraction for devotees.
Tourists visiting India from different parts of the world attend the special Puja performed on the occasion of Dussera here at this famous temple.

This place of worship gained popularity after Herakhan Baba, an ascetic, had it renovated several decades ago. The temple has been named after him.

The temple is situated almost within a cave where Baba is said to have meditated after arriving from the Kailash Mountain. Devotees today remember him as an incarnation Lord Shiva. He passed away in 1984.
Muniraj, the Herakhan temple priest, said: “Presently, people from 30 countries have come here. Because of the devotees from all over the world coming here, this place is also known as Vishwadham (the universal place) also. We all live together, eat together and worship together Navaratri, in particular, is very special.”

Herakhan Baba’’s teachings have been consistent with the essence of all religions propagating message of truth, love and simplicity. He also advocated Karma Yoga ( belief in hard work) for the ultimate enlightenment which mankind seeks.

A special attraction is the convergence of a large number of religious-minded foreigners, who find this place irresistibly overwhelming.

Many of these tourists also perform various Hindu rituals during the Puja at the temple.
Italian Russela is one such ardent devotee. She is regular visitor and has even changed her name to Radha, to establish her identity with Hinduism.

“It’’s been six months when came here to Babaji shrine. I feel very good. I am completely touched by the divine power of BabajiI come here every year. People in my country told me about this place,” said Russela, an Italian tourist

Many of the foreign devotees tonsure their heads with the belief that it will give them a peace of mind. “The feeling to come over this place isit’’s a very special place and I think when I return to my country, I will never forget this place,” said Jayanti, a devotee from Spain.
Almost all the foreigners visiting River Gautama Ganga and Herakhan temple have taken a fancy to this place and proposed to settle down here.

“The foreigners have been visiting this place sine the time Baba was alive here. They have so much faith in Babaji that once anyone visits this place, they don”t want to leave this place. At present 400-500 foreigners are staying here. They come here for worship in Navaratri, Shivaratri, Makar Sankranti and to worship Lord Shiva,” said Savitri, a regular visitor. (ANI)