Panaji: Children, activists and environmentalists came together in Panaji on Saturday to learn about the diminishing safety nets of human lives, and how it can be protected. That was what the one-day Green Glow Environmental Festival, organised in association with the Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB), was all about.Young students sat together with environmentalists watching environmental films like ‘Little Planet: A Tale of Frogs’, by documentary filmmaker Suhas Premkumar, who spent nearly seven years capturing the diversity of frogs in the Sahyadri hill range and ‘Turtles with Antenna’, by filmmaker Arti Kulkarni showcasing the sensitive state of olive ridley turtles in coastal Maharashtra.The festival also organised a poster-making and wall paper making competition for students on environment preservation. Pradeep Sarmokkadam, member secretary of GSBB, said, “Environmental learning doesn’t happen in a classroom. Nature is your best teacher. We need to start talking about solutions, rather than ruminating about problems. All the efforts should go in protecting nature. If you do that, nature will protect you.”Tomazinho Cardozo, managing trustee of the Green Ray foundation, said his primary goal is to continue the legacy which was envisioned by the founder late Maria Claudette Pinto. “Her vision was to create awareness and equip the students with values of preservation, who will steer the society ahead to do the same. And it shouldn’t be stopped even after her demise, so she reserved plenty of funds for the student-oriented activities to continue,” he said.