Editor, Refer to the story, “Karongi District gets environment museum” (The New Times, June 16). There is need to demonstrate significant interactions between culture and nature, and to introduce new ideas and approaches to environmental issues because our relation to nature is key to the re-creation process. The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. This has caused an alarming gap that needs to be filled with far reaching better understanding of people and nature with balanced relationship between the two. Natural and cultural diversity is obviously our main asset and its protection requires solidarity and joint actions and this will definitely highlight and bring out our close ties to the environment and natural resources to stimulate sustainable forms of development. The environmental museum will incorporate concepts that will interpret sustainable energy practices that present a model behaviour by helping people to become conscious of their world. Now, green museum (environmentally friendly practice) come at our rescue with a unique role to establish and promote a culture of sustainability that holds the deepest values, attitudes and actions on the environment with an equaled power and responsibility to model and teach the methods of preserving ourselves, our planet and our cultural resources. The environment can live without humans but human beings cannot live without the environment. The fact is when we lose natures image, we lose our life. The presence of nature is ideal to mans self thus the need to get closer and treat our environment in a more relevant way. Kudos to the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda (INMR) and Rwanda, in general, for making strides in the area of cultural tourism. David Nkusi, Rwanda
