WORLD ENVİRONMENT DAY

İ want to highlight an important day, which takes place every June 5. İt is the World Environment Day(WED) which is run by the United Nations Environment Program(UNEP). The purpose of this day is to take attention to the environmental issues, especially the political attention and raise global awareness of the clean environment.  İt was established by United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.  On that day, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment begins, so the date is not coincidentally chosen.
There are many activities take place on that day.  Parades, tree planting, clean up events and campaigns and concerts.  The theme of 2013 was Think, Eat and Save.  They want to take attention to the enormous food wastages all around the world, which creates a big obstacle for the ecologic inbalance.  As İ looked at the previous themes, there were also some interesting and important ones, such as melting ice, which refers to the global warmings issue; desertification, and a slogan" When People Put the Environment First, Development will Last".  İ think, it is really good to see that some people do really care the environment and put some effort to highlight this issue wiith these activities.