The World Environment Day is celebrated each year on the 5th of June and has been the UN’s main event since 1972 for informing people all over the world about environmental problems faced by humanity.
This year’s theme is “Go Wild for Life”. The booming illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding Earth’s precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage and driving whole species to the brink of extinction. The killing and smuggling is also undermining economies and ecoystems, fuelling organized crime, and feeding corruption and insecurity across the globe.
Wildlife crime endangers iconic elephants, rhinos, tigers, gorillas and sea turtles.
This year’s theme for WED – Go Wild for Life – encourages people to celebrate all those species under threat and take action of your own to help safeguard them for future generations.
For more information visit: http://wed2016.com/