A DAY FOR OUR MOTHER EARTH
APRIL 22, INTERNATIONAL EARTH DAY 2021
History of Earth Day
The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 — it was
led by a few conservation-minded individuals and
organisations in America at that time, who wanted to
raise their voice against the atrocities happening to air,
water, land, and life on earth. Industrial revolution and
urbanisation caused many environmental issues like
oil spills, water pollutions, raw sewages, toxic dumps,
extensive use of pesticides, poaching, wildlife habitat
destruction, and so on. Earth Day gave the individual
environmentalists a common goal and created
a platform for sharing knowledge and awareness. It
aided governments to bring in laws to ensure clean
air, water, harmful chemical-free food, and nature &
wildlife conservation.
By 1990, Earth Day went global and voices from
200 million people in 141 countries got united for
environmental protection.
Climate change and the causing factors were brought
into light from the year 2000 onwards and the urgency
to protect earth has become stronger on succeeding
Earth Days.
We celebrated 50 years of Earth Day in 2020. The
movement aimed to mobilise a billion people to be
a part of nature conservation activities initiated all
around the world.
Earth Day & Biodiversity
Earth Day is a reminder to recognise our commitment
and responsibility to Mother Earth. The current
epidemic is a message from nature to stop misusing
the earth’s resources to the extent that have been.
Nature is perhaps sending us a message to take action
to protect her. Deforestation and other environmental
changes, together with climate change, made the earth
suffer. This affects the living organisms as well. The
high rate of pollution, energy consumption, overuse
of non-biodegradable wastes, e-wastes etc., made it
hard for nature to tolerate. This paved the way for the
depletion of natural resources.
Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and
resources. We need to guard biodiversity in our
climate action efforts, industrial practices and concrete
expansions. For this conservation education must be
imparted to everyone, especially the young generation
who will inherit this planet. We need to empower
everyone with the knowledge about environmental
protection. International Mother Earth Day provides an
opportunity to develop public awareness around the
world about the challenges regarding the well-being of
the world and each life it supports.
Let’s start greening the earth, restoring the earth,
and healing the earth on this Earth Day 2021
Everywhere on t he earth, species live together and
depend upon each other. Every animate thing,
including man, is involved in these complex networks
of interdependent relationships, which are called
ecosystems.
We can participate in biodiversity conservation activities
by increasing our knowledge of conservational issues,
increasing our awareness of the impacts of biodiversity
loss, and increasing support for state policies and
actions that conserve our valuable ecosystems. We can
become educators and promoters as change leaders
of the environment by aiding within the recovery of
species in extinction and preventing other species
from becoming in peril.
The importance of our wildlife is revealed to us within
the thousands of various ways in which the organisms
in the world interact with one another to contribute to
the balance of the worldwide ecosystem and therefore
the survival of the earth. No single life form can live in
isolation. So, as the major consuming organism present
in the earth, humans are responsible for preserving
the biodiversity and the ecosystem to maintain the
eco-balance and protect the species from the brim of
extinction.
Earth Day 2021
This year’s earth day theme is ‘Restore Our Earth’,
which will be run under five primary programmes,
namely; The Canopy Project, Food and Environment,
Climate Literacy, Global Earth Challenge, and the Great
Global CleanUp.
We Grow Forest Foundation is conducting activities
within the social restriction parameters of Covid-19,
to create awareness among communities and
organisations and to be part of our greening efforts in
rebuilding our planet.
How can you be a part?
Now quite ever, we must all be conservationists.
The relentless conversion of those natural habitats
continues at an alarming pace, and therefore the
near future will determine what proportion of nature
survives, and which creatures will vanish with their
unique genes and their carefully crafted role within the
web of life. Our generation will decide the outcome.
We must never give up on our planet and the species
in it. On International Earth Day, we must express
gratefulness to our planet for the unlimited care and
kindness it provides.
Let us pledge to work for the conservation of our
nature and the protection of our Mother Earth.
Promise yourselves to take up at least one or all of the
below activities that We Grow Forest is proposing;
• Go for plogging
• Plant a tree
• Nurture a tree
• Sponsor a waste disposal bin to help your community
• Dispose-off used masks, gloves, PPE kits safely
• Make some seed balls
• Grow a flowering plant to help the bees
• Install a bird box
• Put out a drinking water container for animals and birds
• Organise a clean-up party and celebrate the day
• Get your kids involved in planting
• Spend a day out with nature
• Share your stories on how you would restore the earth
• Share your wisdom on living sustainably
- Send us pictures of Earth Day celebrations
Send your Earth Day activities to
plant@wegrowforest.org
We all know that the statement ‘There is no planet B’ is a cliché and fails to register in people’s minds. But it is a hard
reality that there indeed is no other planet that we can go to. To restore our earth, we need to produce and consume
responsibly, give equal importance to other life forms, bring greenery back into nature, and learn to live sustainably.
To know more about We Grow Forest Foundation please visit our website https://wegrowforest.org/ or contact us at on 9778411911 or email at us plant@wegrowforest.org
