As per the media, world environment day 2016 was celebrated by focusing on most important point of environmental

issue. This years theme of world environment day celebration was fight against the illegal trade in wildlife for life (zero

tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife) focusing on save the life of wild animals like elephants, rhinos, gorillas, whales,

sea turtles, orangutans, pangolins, rosewoods, helmeted hornbills, tigers including other species. This years slogan

was Go Wild for Life to raise the voice against wildlife crime and damages caused by it and take actions to prevent it.

The most important purpose of this year celebration was to take strong actions to restrict illegal trade of wildlife which is

putting the biodiversity of this planet into danger. The host country of

his event in 2016 was Angola which has organized its celebration regarding safeguard the environment. This years

theme is the message aimed to eradicate all bad practices of illegal trade in wildlife.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY HISTORY

World Environment Day (also called as WED) has been started celebrating as an annual event on every 5 th of June since 1973 in

order to raise the global awareness about the importance of the healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the

environmental issues by implementing some positive environmental actions as well as to make aware common public worldwide

that everyone is responsible for saving his environment and not only somebody, government or organizations working for it.

World environment day was first established to be celebrated every year by running some effective campaigns by the United

Nations General Assembly and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the conference on Human Environment began

from 5th to 16th of June at United Nations in 1972. It was first time celebrated in 1973 with the particular theme Only one Earth.

Since 1974, the celebration campaign of the world environment day is hosted in different cities of the world.

It is a big annual celebration started by the United Nations General Assembly to engage millions of people from different countries

across the globe as well as draw attention of political and health organizations to implement some effective actions.

WHY WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY IS CELEBRATED

World environment day annual celebration campaign was started to address the huge environmental issues like wastage and losses

of food, deforestation, increasing global warming and so many. Every year celebration is planned according to the particular theme

and slogan of the year to bring effectiveness in the campaign all through the world.

It is celebrated to successfully get carbon neutrality, focusing on the forest management, reducing greenhouse effects, promoting

bio-fuels production by planting on degraded lands, use of hydro-power to enhance electricity production, encourage common

public to use solar water heaters, energy production through solar sources, developing new drainage systems, promoting coral reefs

and mangroves restoration in order to get prevented from flooding and erosion including other ways of environmental preservation.

Some of the objectives of the world environment day campaign are mentioned below:
 It is celebrated to make aware the common public about the environmental issues.

Encourage common people from different society and communities to actively participate in the celebration as well as become an

active agent in developing environmental safety measures.

Let them know that community people are very essential to inhibit negative changes towards the environmental issues.

Encourage people to make their nearby surroundings safe and clean to enjoy safer, cleaner and more prosperous future.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY ACTIVITIES

Variety of activities are planned to celebrate this great event in different countries to encourage more people towards the

celebration. Various news channels take part very actively in the celebration to cover the news and distribute messages about the

celebration among common public through their news publications to bring effective and positive changes towards the environment

to solve all the environmental issues. Some of the national and international level activities include street rallies, tree plantation,

garbage recycling, surrounding areas clean-up, parades and so many activities in order to draw people attention towards wide range

of environmental issues as well as bring difference.

People of all age groups actively involve during the celebration to save their planet in original form as gifted by the nature.

Especially modern day youths hugely take part in the celebration through many activities such as clean up campaigns, art

exhibitions, motivating people for tree-planting, dance activities, recycling garbage, film festivals, community events, essays

writing, poster competitions, social media campaigns and lot more. Many awareness campaigns are also run at schools, colleges and

other educational institutions to motivate students towards their environmental safety. The celebration takes place at national and

internatio

People of all age groups actively involve during the celebration to save their planet in original form as gifted by the nature.

Especially modern day youths hugely take part in the celebration through many activities such as clean up campaigns, art

exhibitions, motivating people for tree-planting, dance activities, recycling garbage, film festivals, community events, essays

writing, poster competitions, social media campaigns and lot more. Many awareness campaigns are also run at schools, colleges and

other educational institutions to motivate students towards their environmental safety. The celebration takes place at national and

international level by organizing various activities in the public places to aware common public about the real causes of

environment status degradation as well as let them know what steps should be taken to solve such environmental issues.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY THEME AND SLOGAN

Each year celebration of the World Environment Day is based on the particular theme decided by the United Nations to make the

celebration more effective by encouraging mass people worldwide to hugely take part in addressing environmental issues on global

scale. Year wise list of the themes and slogans of world environment day are mentioned below:
 The theme of the year 2016 was Zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wi

Each year celebration of the World Environment Day is based on the particular theme
decided by the United Nations to make the celebration more effective by encouraging mass
people worldwide to hugely take part in addressing environmental issues on global scale.
Year wise list of the themes and slogans of world environment day are mentioned below:

The theme of the year 2016 was Zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife (highlights the fight
against the illegal trade in wildlife).

The theme of the year 2015 was One World, One Environment.

The theme of the year 2014 was small island developing states or SIDS and Raise your voice,
not the sea level.

The theme of the year 2013 was Think. Eat. Save. And slogan was Reduce Your Foodprint.

The theme of the year 2012 was Green Economy: Does it include you?.

The theme of the year 2011 was Forests: Nature at your Service.

The theme of the year 2010 was Many Species. One Planet. One Future.

The theme of the year 2009 was Your Planet Needs You Unite to Combat Climate Change.

The theme and slogan of the year 2008 was CO2, Kick the Habit Towards a Low Carbon
Economy.

The theme of the year 2007 was Melting Ice a Hot Topic?.

The theme of the year 2006 was Deserts and Desertification and slogan was Dont Desert
Drylands!.

The theme of the year 2005 was Green Cities and slogan was Plan for the Planet!.

The theme of the year 2004 was Wanted! Seas and Oceans and slogan was Dead or Alive?.

The theme of the year 2003 was Water and slogan was Two Billion People are Dying for It!.

The theme of the year 2002 was Give Earth a Chance.

The theme of the year 2001 was Connect with the World Wide Web of Life.

The theme of the year 2000 was The Environment Millennium and slogan was Time to Act.
 The theme of the year 1999 was Our Earth Our Future and slogan was Just Save It!.

The theme of the year 1998 was For Life on Earth and slogan was Save Our Seas.

The theme of the year 1997 was For Life on Earth.

The theme of the year 1996 was Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home.

The theme of the year 1995 was We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment.

The theme of the year 1994 was One Earth One Family.

The theme of the year 1993 was Poverty and the Environment and slogan was Breaking the Vicious
Circle.

The theme of the year 1992 was Only One Earth, Care and Share.

The theme of the year 1991 was Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership.

The theme of the year 1990 was Children and the Environment.

The theme of the year 1989 was Global Warming; Global Warning.

The theme of the year 1988 was When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last.

The theme of the year 1987 was Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof.

The theme of the year 1986 was A Tree for Peace.

The theme of the year 1985 was Youth: Population and the Environment.

The theme of the year 1984 was Desertification.

The theme of the year 1983 was Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy.

The theme of the year 1982 was Ten Years after Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns).

The theme of the year 1981 was Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains.

The theme of the year 1980 was A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development without
Destruction.

The theme of the year 1979 was Only One Future for Our Children and slogan was Development
without Destruction.

The theme of the year 1978 was Development without Destruction.

 The theme of the year 1977 was Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil
Degradation.

The theme of the year 1976 was Water: Vital Resource for Life.

The theme of the year 1975 was Human Settlements.

The theme of the year 1974 was Only one Earth during Expo 74.

The theme of the year 1973 was Only one Earth.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY QUOTES

Some of the famous quotes (written by the famous personalities) on world environment day
are mentioned below:

The environment is everything that isnt me. Albert Einstein

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand
tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. John Muir

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, its
the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our
resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert
Redford

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go
quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. John Muir

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know well soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. Aeschylus

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch
 They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from
her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. Sitting Bull

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold

After all, sustainability means running the global environment Earth Inc. like a corporation: with
depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather
than undermining your natural capital. Maurice Strong

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his
left. Aldo Leopold

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and
there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. -
Jacob Bronowski

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame and only one themselves.
Robert Collier

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. Pat Buckley

We must return to nature and natures god. Luther Burbank

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody
involved. Richard Rogers

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of
leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. Paul Tsongas

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements,

and organized crime are worldwide problems that dont stop at a nations borders. Warren
Christopher

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international
priorities. Brian Mulroney

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in
journalism, literature and art. Barry Commoner

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental
threat and wanted action to resolve it. Barry Commoner
 The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be
implemented. Dixie Lee Ray

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government
regulation? Gale Norton

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a
conservation ethic in our culture. Gaylord Nelson

Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs, but not every mans greed. Mahatma Gandhi

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to
ourselves and to one another. Mahatma Gandhi