This year New Zealand will be hosting World Environment Day in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program. The celebration will take place on 5 June and actually will combine World Environment Day with Arbor Day. This time World Environment Day tackle a subject of world climate change under the slogan “Kick the Habit!” which encourages a Low Carbon Economy. Overall the World Environment Day events will be held in more than one hundred countries all around the world.

Previously in this post I mentioned the Arbor Day, so for readers not familiar with this event I will explain a little. Department Of Conservation in New Zealand celebrates Arbor Day to focus on planting native trees in order to restore habitats that have been damaged by humans, weeds and pests. DOC successfully manages to engage community in essential conservation work and raise the ecological awareness. Actually the very first Arbor Day was celebrated in 1872 in Nebraska USA, while New Zealand’s first Arbor Day was held on 3 July 1890 in Greytown.

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