World Rainforest Day 2022
Tharushi Fernando
June 23, 2022
World Rainforest Day is celebrated to honour rainforests that are incredibly crucial for the survival of life on Earth. So the sooner we adopt conserving habits, the better are the chances of Earth’s survival.
Founded in 2007, Rainforest Partnership is a Non-governmental Organisation based in Austin, Texas. The organisation’s mission was to preserve and regenerate tropical rainforests with the help of forest people and develop sustainable livelihoods to empower and respect both them and their natural habitat. Effective collaboration between different groups achieves this. In 2017, Rainforest Partnership first celebrated World Rainforest Day on June 22. It was an extended mission for the organisation. The celebration was to identify the standing and healthy forests as powerful and cost-effective mitigation tools for climate change. It hoped to trigger an immediate global movement to protect and restore them.
The theme for this year’s celebration of World Rainforest Day is “The Time Is Now.” It is an effort to sensitise the general public on rainforests’ crucial role in the survival of life on Earth. The theme highlights actions to be taken to save rainforests and the biodiversity within them.
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