One of the most cherishing experiences is the flight back to your childhood. Dragonflies and Damselflies rarely spotted these days were our important playmates. Their anatomy, enticing colours, skilled manoeuvres, untiring sorties were a fascinating sight. That was when lived in a village surrounded by water bodies with rich cultivation of water chestnut and amaranthus.
The WWF India team brought these memories back through their impressive presentation attended by over three hundred enthusiastic students. Both as predators and prey in the food cycle, dragonflies, play a crucial role. An important bio-indicators, dragonflies, sadly are on the verge of extinction. Young children came to know how these beautiful insects, sometimes as small as 15 mm act as climate sanitisers. It is possible to create habitations for them, tend them and welcome them back in the ecosystem, enhancing the #SDG progress index for Goals 13, 14 and 15.
Love you helicopter insects and apologies for committing some atrocities as a child, purely out of ignorance·
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