World Environment Day: It’s ‘Time for Nature’, A call for urgent action to protect Biodiversity
Every year on 5 June the world celebrates World Environment Day. It is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. This year, World Environment Day’s theme “Biodiversity” focuses on demanding action to combat the accelerating loss of species and degradation of nature. According to the United Nations, biodiversity involves 8 million plant and animal species. In the last 150 years, the live coral reef cover has been reduced by half. Within the next 10 years, one out of every four known species may have been wiped off the planet.
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