Expression from an Idiot by birth:

For the last two days (13-14th March, 2012) I was attending a workshop in Paro. It was yet another workshop on policy and adaptation issues. The title of the workshop was "Legal and Policy Tools to Adapt Biodiversity Management to Climate Change". The workshop was beyond doubt very informative and interesting. I have learnt many new things and understood various adaptation issues that countries across the globe is adopting to combat "climate change". I was surprised by the number of "acts", "rules", "policies" that exists in our country. Bhutan is indeed bestowed with great natural habitat and forest cover, handed over by our ancestors who strived very hard to leave behind the environment in the way they were handed by their fore fathers. The conservation this far surprisingly came without the existence of any rules/acts/laws. The conservation came with the existence of total anarchy. I think Dzongsar Jamyang Khentse rightly pointed th...