Environmental education- initiatives and efforts

Environmental Education is an important educational concern. This study deals with initiatives and efforts to protect environment and environmental Education for school students. Environmentalists have taken a very strong position after the United Nations Conference on Human Environment at Stockholm in 1972, which was a major event for those concerned with the quality of world’s environment. Environmental Education is a way of implementing the goals of environmental protection. Environmental Education is not a separate branch of science or subject of study but should be carried out according to principle of lifelong integrated education. National Environmental Awareness Campaign (NEAC, 2000-2001), started in 1986 for creating environmental awareness at all levels of society. A comprehensive multi-dimensional and multidisciplinary approach is adopted within the main objective of environment as 'medium of instruction'.