The Airgun Surrender Abhiyan initiative of Arunachal Pradesh Government has been selected as India’s best success story on wildlife conservation to present in the UNESCO’s International Conference on Biosphere Reserves held at Sabah, Malaysia.
About Airgun Surrender Abhiyan
- The Airgun Surrender Abhiyan is an initiative of the Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Arunachal Pradesh Government.
- Under the scheme people were invited to voluntarily surrender their Airguns and licensed guns to stop the use of these guns to kill birds and other wild animals.
- The programme was officially launched on March 17, 2021 at Lumdung in East Kameng District where 46 air guns were surrendered and Lumdung was declared the first Airgun free village of Arunachal Pradesh.
