World Environment Day is the biggest annual event for positive environmental action and takes place every 5 June. World Environment Day is a day for everyone, everywhere. Since it began in 1972, global citizens have organized many thousands of events, from neighborhood clean-ups, to action against wildlife crime, to replanting forests.
This year’s theme invites you to think about how we are part of nature and how intimately we depend on it. It challenges us to find fun and exciting ways to experience and cherish this vital relationship.
‘Connecting People to Nature’, the theme for World Environment Day 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share. We as global citizens of this planet earth to whom we are indebted in numerous ways must shoulder responsibility to protect it and its flora and fauna from further destruction. Planet earth which once was green everywhere.
Every living creature whether flora or fauna all lived in harmony, peace and symbiotic relationship with each other. But it’s only human greed that disturb everything and inflicted irreparable damage to this green planet. No creature since the inception of the universe has caused damage to this earth except we so called humans.
Our materialistic pursuits have played havoc with all kinds of life on this earth, polluted water bodies, terrestrial environment and above all our atmosphere, that become threat to aquatic life, terrestrial life and to air that we breathe respectively. Let’s realise for a minute that we are blessed for being the most advanced creation of Allah (s.w.t). Do we really justify this claim if we look at our ruthless character? Of course not. Therefore, we need to awake and instill some sensitivity in us for our environment before it will become cause to our own extinction.
We Andergam Youth Development Association (AYDA) have organised this year’s environment day in Andergam Pattan Baramulla with different schools of the area. We along with schools that participated walked street to street to create mass awareness among common people about the importance of our environment, hazardous effects of non biodegradable wastes etc. We prepared various slogans on the eve of this year's environment day and spoke them on loud speaker to create awareness about our environment. Some of these slogans are:-
1. Save environment save life
2. Avoid pollution breath fresh
3. Go green live green
4. Save Hangul Save Crown of Kashmir
5. Make planet great again
6. Ann poshe talle yalle Vann poshe
7. Band karov band karov polythene band karov.
Special Thanks To Department Of Ecology Environment And Remote Sensing Mass media Division Srinagar.