World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5, annually to promote awareness and environmental protection. United Nations views that the celebration of environment day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises, and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment.
The covid-19 pandemic which the world has been dealing with for almost 1.5 years now has shown the disastrous the consequences of loss of the ecosystem. By curtailing the area of natural habitat for animals, we have created ideal conditions for pathogens, including coronaviruses to spread. It is to be understood by all the citizens that, only with healthy ecosystems we can enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change and stop the collapse of biodiversity.
World Environment 2021 with the theme ‘ecosystem restoration’ was celebrated by Bosco College of Teacher Education. The college is having online classes due to covid-19 pandemic. Therefore the staff and the students planted saplings in their courtyard and garden reminding them the importance having tress around. Trees give out oxygen that we need to breathe. Trees reduce the amount of stormwater runoff, which reduces erosion and pollution and reduces the effects of flooding. Many species of wildlife mainly depend on trees for their habitat. Trees provide food, protection, and homes for many birds and mammals. The staff and the students of the college are further reminded of the usefulness of having trees in the yard such as trees increase property values, cleaning the air, preventing soil erosion, buffering noise pollution, cool our homes, streets, and cities, and they are beautiful.
