World Environment Day
World Environment Day is celebrated on 5 June every year, to create awareness and to take action for the protection of our fragile environment.
Our environment is facing a number of challenges. We have been exploiting and destroying our ecosystem. The data on environmental destruction is shocking. Every three seconds, the world loses forest cover the size of a football ground and over the last century, we have destroyed half of our wetlands. As much as 50% of our coral reefs have already been lost. We have started feeling the effects of global warming and climate change. The earth will soon become unlivable for human beings.
This is why World Environment Day becomes relevant. It focuses on the restoration of the ecosystem. Only healthy ecosystems can help us enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change and stop the collapse of biodiversity. This is the most important issue before humanity today. All of us should be aware of these challenges so that we work towards bringing a change. Let us create maximum awareness and work hard to improve the health of our environment. This is what we should do for ourselves and also for future generations. We should take a pledge to protect our ecosystem and to live a simple, harmless life.
Each year, World Environment Day has a special theme. This year (2024), the theme is "Land Restoration, Desertification, and Drought Resilience." It's about bringing back healthy land, preventing deserts from growing, and dealing with water shortages.
