Kolkatans walk for wildlife

KOLKATA: Kolkatans, including celebrities, college-goers and schoolchildren, walked to save wildlife on Sunday.

The “Wildlife Awareness Rally” was attended by eminent personalities from all walks of life (

Lopamudra Mitra

, Pallab Kirtania, Joy Sarkar,

Debojyoty Mishra

,

Badsha Moitra

, Debdut Ghosh, Biswanath Basu,

Yudhajit Banerjee

,

Soumya Ghosh

, Tathagata Mukherjee, Dolon Roy, Debolina Dutta, Manisha Adak, Surajit Sen Gupta, Shyam Thapa, Prasanta Banerjee, Aloke Mukherjee, Sagarmoy Sen Sharma, Dattatreo Mukherjee, Arup Bhattacharjee, Atal Deb Burman, Kamaleswar Mukherjee and Purnima Dutta) have kindly agreed to join the cause.

“The prime objective of this programme is to generate awareness among the students of school, colleges and universities. A number of prominent institutions have consented to join the same,” said

Nilanjan Chowdhury

, one of the organisers.

Students of colleges and universities are walked the rally with hand-made posters. Following the walk, an essay competition on the topic "Wildlife tourism - Ecosystem to Economics" was held and was attended by college and university students.