“Reimagine, Recreate, Restore”
2021-2030 is the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
World Environment Day is on the 5th of June each year where the awareness of the need to protect the world’s natural environment is spread. It’s a reminder to people why preserving the world’s natural habitats and greenery is important for a better future .
Every three seconds, the world loses a considerable amount of forest and such ecosystems . Even if we are able to limit global warming , we might lose upto 90% of coral reefs by 2050.
For too long, we have been exploiting and destroying our planet’s ecosystems and it is high time that we think of restoring the natural ecosystems.
The most effective carbon sinks are trees and hence forests are to be preserved and recreated at any cost. The cause of pathogens to spread also cannot be another reason.
With this big and challenging picture, World Environment Day focuses on ecosystem restoration and its theme is “Reimagine. Recreate.Restore.”
Ecosystem restoration means preventing, halting and reversing this damage – to go from exploiting nature to healing it. This World Environment Day will kick off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a global mission to revive billions of hectares, from forests to farmlands, from the top of mountains to the depth of the sea.
Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change and stop the collapse of biodiversity.
Global warming is on the rise due to factors like air pollution, cutting down of trees on a large scale, and many other such factors. Trees have the capability of cleaning the air around us by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing fresh oxygen. But with the trees being cut down a lot in the past decades and due to our daily activities, the carbon emission has increased drastically resulting in global warming which created the above-mentioned damages or changes.
The summers getting warmer, winters getting colder, flash floods, landslides, cyclones are all directly or indirectly connected to this.
It is clear that this situation is reversible, that’s what lockdown taught us. Due to lockdowns and restrictions which were applied all across the globe in the last 1 year, the global emission rates have fallen to a large extent as people started to use lesser amounts of vehicles, the factories being closed for numerous days across the globe, all these being the major factors or contributors to global warming.
Let’s join hands and bring about a positive change once this global pandemic is past us and keep all the above-mentioned issues at bay.
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