Anniversaries

World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5-16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly  in 1972.

The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme and is commemorated with an international exposition on the week that 5 June is on. World Environment Day is in summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

For more information see:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Environment_Day
• http://www.unep.org/

World Environment Day which is observed internationally is also celebrated in Papua New Guinea.

• See pictures of planting of mangroves seedlings for World Environment Day 2009