‘Leave Me Alone’: Global Tiger Day Celebrations At St Gregorious High School, Mumbai

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 33 No. 8, August 2013

The event was hosted by St Gregorious High School where their nature club - Eco-leaf - helped organise a story enactment competition for the PEAS member schools. This competition aimed at bringing about awareness about wildlife conservation among students and having fun at the same time. The competition was named ‘Tell your favourite tiger story' and the schools that participated were St Gregorious High School, Gundecha Education Academy, Pawar Public School and Arya Vidya Mandir.

Before the competition began, National Tiger Ambassador Siddhi Kothari presented the tiger factsheet and the rationale behind the ‘Leave Me Alone' campaign to the students. The principal of the school, Mrs. Krishnaswamy spoke about practical things children could do to help conserve tigers and forests.

The students had a fun-filled day of learning while enjoying at the same time.

Source: Sanctuary Asia.

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