According to IUCN, Environmental education is a process of recognising and clarifying concepts for development of skills and attitudes necessary for appreciating and understanding the inter relationship between human beings, their culture, code of behaviour about his biophysical surrounding. Environmental education must be issue, action and future oriented with different approaches related to all disciplines for quality enhancement of sustainable development.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
Kuntamalla Sujatha Gudimalla Prashanthi,
Asst Professor, Sericulture faculty, Dept of Zoology,
Kakatiya University, Hanamkonda, LB College,
Warangal. Warangal.
Madichetty Sai Abhishek
Engg, Banglore
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Kakatiya University, Warangal

2. According to IUCN, Environmental education is a process of recognizing and
clarifying concepts for development of skills and attitudes necessary for appreciating and
understanding the inter relationship between human beings, their culture, code of behavior
about his biophysical surrounding. Environmental education must be issue, action and future
oriented with different approaches related to all disciplines for quality enhancement of
sustainable development.
Environmental education is a process of allowing an individual to explore
environmental issues engaging in problem solving, recognizing and clarifining the concepts
for development of skills to make informed and responsible decisions, attitudes necessary for
appreciating and understanding the relationship between human beings culture, code of
behavior about his surroundings for quality enhancement of sustainable development.
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3. Environmental education implies establishing proper ecological equilibrium
which require proper use and conservation of resources in a sustainable manner.
UNESCO (2014) emphasis the role of environmental education in safeguarding
future global developments through environmental protection, eradication of
poverty, minimization of equalities and insurance of sustainable development.
At learning levels, the ability of the students to analyse, evaluate and expose the
students to problems and issues in order to facilitate in their journey towards
sustainability. It also includes efforts to educate public.
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4. Components
• Components of environmental education are awareness and sensitivity to the challenges in
the environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of environment and their challenges.
• Skills to identify and solve environmental challenges.
• Environmental education is inter diciplinary fields which combines biology, geology,
ecology and mathematics to understand the environment in which we live.
• As the environment is constantly evolving hence environmental education which is a life
long process helps to improve and develop environment in better way.
• Where in everyone’s involvement is required to make a better environment.
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5. Aims of Environmental education
• Improving the quality of environment.
• To create atmosphere among the people so that they participate in decision making,
capabilities development on environmental problems and conversions.
• To provide different professional groups of people with knowledge and skills to preserve,
converse, having sense of responsibility and utilization of its riches for the benefit of present
and future generations.
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6. Benefits of environmental education:-
• Helps to know the interconnection of social, cultural, political and economic issues.
• Helps to develop, enhance critical and creative thinking skills for identification and solving
of environmental problems.
• It promote tolerance levels.
• Importance of balance diet, healing touch of nature, health issues are solved through eco-
therapy to lead a healthy life.
• Environmental education helps us to understand the importance of energy sources.
• To fight against global warming, for using renewable sources like solar and wind energy
more efficiently to save nature for future generation.
• Educating the students about environment so that it will not only helps in promoting
greenery, real world problems but also prevents distraction to all bad habits.
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7. Few Health concerns and remedial measures during rearing silkworm
As a sericulture faculty, I am fortunate to interact not only with students in the
classroom but also rearers in the farms about their environmental and health concerns and
suggest remedial measures while rearing silkworms and growing mulberry plants. During my
visits the following problems faced by sericulturist was observed:-
First Problem
Health risks to rearers and cultivars while spraying
weedicides & pesticides, application of chemical fertilizers
(300:120kg/hectare/year) and dusting of bed disinfectants on
rearing bed to prevent bacterial and viral infections during
rearing / growing of mulberry.
The chemicals added to the land changed the soil
characteristic / destroyed the soil microbes and subsequently
the soil fertility, at times these chemicals through infiltration
reached the ground water through the rain water.
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Kakatiya University, Warangal

8. Second Problem
The silkworms require optimum temperature and humidity ranges (23oC to 26oC and 95% to
60% ) respectively in the process of raising the temperature during rainy and winter season,
large quantity of coal was burnt which released carbon mono oxide and dioxide into the
rearing house. Not only these, pollutants like oxides of Nitrogen, Sulphur, dust and soot
caused environmental and health hazard to rearers when inhaled, but also on their economical
status as their efficiency was lowered.
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9. Third Problem
Sometimes while engaging in the package of practices like ploughing, weeding,
pruning, harvesting of leaves they acquired injuries, on these wounds they just applied the
mulberry leaf extract which had medicinal values without bandaging it, with the same hands
they would carryout the process of rearing activities like bed cleaning, removal of dead and
diseased worms, feeding of silkworms which resulted in health risk to workers due to
penetration of bacteria and virus into body through the untreated / unattended wounds.
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Kakatiya University, Warangal

10. Fourth Problem
The silkworm litter, diseased and dead worms are disposed improperly with bare
hands thus causing health risks.
Remedies to the problems
We organized awareness programs, held local group discussion, distributed
pamphlets, comparative live demos so that they can overcome the problems and during the
above programs the following remedies were undertaken.
1. Rearers were asked to use room heater and replace charcoal stoves with hard wood along
with cross ventilated houses in North and South directions with windows to the North and
South wards to overcome pollution.
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11. 2. In order to overcome the untoward incidents, while growing silkworms through awareness
programmes basic knowledge about pesticides and disinfectants and related risk factors to
silkworms, rearers and their family was addressed.
•Mixing of two pesticides without knowledge are to be avoided.
•Usage of mask and gloves was recommended.
•Keeping of pesticides out of children reach, washing of hands before meals.
•Chemical / pesticide sprayed leaves are to be fed to silkworm after safe period.
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12. • Proper disposal of dead silkworms by burying them in a 2ft pit and covering with lime and
bleaching powder (ratio 3:1) over the pit far away from garden.
• Providing proper self medication when injured either during mulberry and rearing activities.
• Proper usage of litter and leftover leaves rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potash in
compost, vermi compost for value addition to sericulture and using the same in dairy and
fishery industry for developing rearers as entrepreneurs.
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13. By this, employment is generated to rural youth and abundant sericulture
byproducts (40,000 kgs/hectare) are effectively utilized leading to cleaner and
greener sericulture.
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