World Nature Conservation Day is celebrated every year on the 28th of July. This date was assigned by the United Nations that aims to draw attention to the need to protect and conserve our natural resources. The main aim behind celebrating World Nature Conservation Day is to encourage people to conserve nature by conserving natural resources like – Water, Fuels, Air, Minerals, Soil, Wildlife, etc. for our Future use and also for Future Generations. As a citizen of EARTH we should protect the trees and animals and the nature is like a mother which gives shelter.
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World Nature Conservation Day 2021 Theme
The Theme of the World Nature Conservation Day 2021 is ‘Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet‘.
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Here are 15 amazing facts that we need to know about on World Nature Conservation Day 2021:
1. We can save 75,000 trees if we recycled the paper used on the daily run of the New York Times alone.
2. Only 1% of our planet’s water supply can be used. 97% is ocean water and 2% is frozen solid in the Arctic, for now.
3. The world’s oldest trees are more than 4,600 years old.
4. An estimated 50,000 species inhabiting our tropical forests become extinct annually. That’s an average of 137 species a day.
5. 27,000 trees are cut down each day so we can have Toilet Paper.
6. The consumer society is thirsty. Very thirsty. "There will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we're doing today". (Professor Benjamin Sovacool of Aarhus University, Denmark).
7. If current patterns continue, we will have emptied the world’s oceans for seafood by 2050.
8. According to NASA, the world's rainforests will be gone by 2100 if the current rate of destruction continues.
9. We, human consumption of Earth's natural resources more than tripled between 1970 and 2015 and our use of natural resources is expected to continue growing and more than double from 2015 to 2050.
10. By 2070, the world’s coral reefs could be gone altogether.
11. By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans.
12. According to a 2018 article in Nature Magazine: the Great Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch stretches 1.6 million km2. This is the size of Iran or over twice the size of Texas .
13. Up to half of all food produced is lost or wasted before or after it reaches consumers. Food waste is a problem in a world where over 800 million people suffer from hunger and undernourishment. All these people could be fed by less than a quarter of the food lost or wasted in the US and Europe.
If “Food Waste” were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest emitter of CO2 after China and the US.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
14. Cotton production requires so much water that it emptied a whole sea (the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan). It has been called one of the worst environmental disasters in history.
15. Mining is considered the world’s Number One Toxic Polluter. For example, the steel production results in 80 tons of toxic wastewater for each ton of steel produced.
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And there are many other facts as well! As you can see we already have done the damages to our beloved nature and we are continuing doing it. But we have to stop! We need to think about the nature. Let's pledge on this world nature conservation day to wisely use our resources for the well-being of present and future generations and please share this article to make people aware about this situation.