World Environment Day is the most renowned day for environmental action. Since 1974, it has been celebrated every year on 5 June; engaging governments, businesses, celebrities and citizens to focus their efforts on a pressing environmental issue.
COVID-19 causing public health lockdowns around the world, Environment Day, the planet’s largest civic event, of the globe for every continent, in dozens of languages, humanity was celebrated across globally in virtual platform or individual ways keeping the pandemic outbreak in concern.
The theme for World Environment Day this year was “Time for Nature “. We all are well acquainted more with the fact that our environment is one of the most important aspects to survive on this planet. Moreover, it is the only thing that can make life sustainable. Few facts that aroused the graph higher to celebrate this day are given below:
Humanity’s unhealthy relationship with nature
The science does not lie. We can tell much of the story of the damage our species has wrought with a few facts.
Humanity has altered 75 per cent of the Earth’s ice-free surface.
Since 1990, 420 million hectares of forest, equal to three times the size of South Africa, have been lost.
Nearly one million species face extinction, while the illegal wildlife trade is the fourth largest illegal trade crime in the world.
Let’s all join hands together and try and play our role a bit to make our World a healthy place to live and breathe in.
Keeping the theme of this year in our minds our Institute too took a step by planting saplings around the campus to make our world green and add a bit more of our support to the green movement ongoing across globally to build the chain of Biodiversity. Though we kept our event a very small one keeping the pandemic outbreak in consideration, our aim was high to try and create a greener planet thus our small initiative to “Care for Nature” was a small effort towards spreading green. We hope one day these small efforts together will spread its stem and branches across towards a healthy and greener planet for all of us.
