World Environment Day ; 05 June

    World Environment Day (WED) is one of the global events of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which is celebrated annually every year on 5th day of June.  WED was established, with intentions to stimulate awareness of the environment and encourage political attention & preventive actions towards continuously deteriorating earth's environment, by the United Nations General Assembly on 5th day of June in 1972, when United Nations conference on Human Environment began. The same day United Nations General Assembly created an organization namely United Nations Environment Programme.

       WED has been celebrated 39 times since its first celebration in 1973.  Every year, UNEP choose a different theme and a different country as a global host for World Environment Day celebrations. Every year, different activities like planting trees collectively, marathon running events, & concerts, press conferences, etc., are organized nationwide, which run for a week and concluded with a big event on 5th of June.

        For the first time, since 1973 when WED celebrated first, India has been chosen as the host country for WED, 5 June, 2011. Theme for WED this year is Forests with official slogan - Forests ; Nature At Your Service, which aims on spreading awareness of importance of forests in sustaining life on earth and maintaining balance of environment.  Theme, 2011 also emphasize on conserving forests and their role in serving humans in different aspects of life. Earlier UN also declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests.