Date:26/11/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/11/26/stories/2006112608320500.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Time to think of nation: Kapil Sibal

Staff Reporter

`Butterfly Park IS a symbol of the country's commitment in preserving biodiversity'

NEW FACILITY: Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal and Karnataka Minister for Forests C. Chennigappa releasing butterflies to inaugurate the Butterfly Park at Bannerghatta Biological Park, in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

Bangalore: "It is time for us to think `India' — we need `Team India' to take us forward. The Butterfly Park is a symbol of that team," said Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences.

The Union MInister was speaking after inaugurating the Butterfly Park at the Bannerghatta Biological Park here on Saturday. He said the park had helped bring people and experts from various fields together and build something.

"We need to do the same at the global level, as a means to protect the human race," he said.

Minister for Environment and Forests Chennigappa said that instead of preserving our natural resources, we were spoiling it.

He gave away prizes to children who won prizes in the drawing competition organised by ATREE.

Earlier, the dignitaries released butterflies in the conservatory of the park.