Environment Discussion for UPSC || Guest Lecture || Mr. Karthikeya Sivasenapathy
Channel: Shankar IAS Academy
Date: 28/11/2021

Dear Aspirants, Mr. Karthikeya Sivasenapathy is currently secretary of Environmental wing – DMK Political Party. He is also a social activist working on Bio-Diversity, Environment, Native Livestock, Tamil culture & Language and Social Justice. He is the Managing Trustee of Senaapathy Kangayam Cattle Research Foundation and Inthinai.


He has been working on creating awareness and sustainability of the livestock based farming system. He has been organizing a cattle show for Kangayam cattle from 2010. There has been a movement towards Native cattle, Tamilnadu Livestock and Zero budget / Zero input farming. The movement of the youth towards Kangayam cattle can be single-handedly attributed to him. From 2009 he has addressed 1000s of colleges, schools, company employees, clubs and meetings to raise awareness traveling at his own cost. Nammalvar ayya’s one of the favorite protege and who has stayed with him at his home multiple times. He has organized a UNCBD international consultation in SKCRF and was invited by UNCBD for the CoP to Nagoya, Japan where he spoke on the conservation of biodiversity being mentioned in Thirukural 2000 years back. The international intergovernmental audience was stunned by the ancient knowledge of Tamils due to the speech. The mayor of Toronto, UNEP director hosted a meet in honor of Tamil Literary in Nagoya and felicitated him.

Biodiversity is the topic of the discussion. The session will be helpful to the aspirants throughout their preparation journey.
 
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