Imphal, 03 December 2016 ( Evening News ) : Governor Dr Najma Heptulla today conveyed her commitment to the cause of environment change and degradation of the environment. She was speaking at the inauguration of the three day Media workshop on climate change reporting at Hotel Imphal. The governor said the Himalayas protect the country’s environment and give the country various rivers. She maintained that if the Himalayas and the bio diversity are  destroyed there is no future for the next generations. Dr Heptulla also stressed the role of media in creating awareness among the people to protect the environment. Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme (IHCAP) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Centre for Media Studies (CMS) are organising a series of media engagement workshops in the northeast region with a view to promote accurate reporting of climate change, science and adaptation measures in the Indian Himalayas. The series includes media workshops in all the Himalayan states over the next three years. Under this media engagement programme, fellowships will also be awarded for journalists from the region to write field-based stories. Best stories written by state-level journalists will be awarded at the end of the programme. The overall objective of the programme is to trigger interest in climate change, its impacts on sustainability, livelihood issues and adaptation stories among journalists, editors and media houses in the region and thereby among the masses.