The World Environment Day is being observed on 5th June, 2021 with the theme of ecosystem restoration, which aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean.
- REIMAGINE. RECREATE. RESTORE are the key words for the celebrations this year.
- Contributing with the same spirit, Films Division is presenting Oasis of Hope,an online festival of films on environmenton 5th and 6th June, 2021 to mark the important occasion.
- The 2-day festival will consist of films that give strong message of reviving environment and reimagining the nature’s co-existence by suggesting various ways to restore the inseparable relationship of human being and nature. The streaming will be done on Films Division website and on You Tube channel.
About World Environment Day 2021 Theme
- This year, the theme of World Environment Day is “Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.”
- The global host for the day in 2021 to highlight the importance of ecosystem restoration is Pakistan.
- World Environment Day came into existence in 1972 by the United Nations Assembly on the first day Stockholm Conference held on the human environment and later in 1974, the day started to be celebrated with the theme “Only One Earth”.
- The idea for rotating the center of these activities through selecting different host countries began in 1987. In 2013, the anthem was launched on the occasion of World Environment Day in New Delhi.
