World Environment Day(5th June)2020| Slogans-Quotes|Amazon Fire

World Environment Day 2020 theme, "Celebrate Biodiversity, Which 1 million Species facing extinction". Every year world environment day theme has some objectives and new set of goals to implement to achieve better nature and create awareness on environmental protection.

World Environment Day 2020 hosts by Colombia  in partnership with Germany. For the first time UN general assembly, Stockholm, in 1972 declared 5th June as world Environment Day.
1st celebration was 5th June,1974, with theme: Only one earth.
Earth Anthem: Celebration of World Environment day includes Earth anthem, the song which often sung in this event. Earth anthem found in 2008,
composed by Dr.L.Subrahmanyam,
sung by Kavitha Krishanamurthy,Abhay.k, lyrics by William Wallace
Launched on 5th June, 2013 world Environment day celebrations.

World Environment |Slogans| Quotes:

• "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment" - Margaret Mead
• "If humanity has to live for a long time, you have to think like earth, act as earth, be the earth, because that is what you are "- Sadhguru
• "Environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest, it is the one thing that all of us share "- Lady Bird Johnson
• "The environment is everything that isn't me"- Albert Einstein
• "Birds are the indicators of the environment, if they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble" - Roger Tory Peterson
• "What we are doing to the forest of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another"- Mahatma Gandhi
• "Conservation of state of Harmony between men and land" - Aldo Leopold

Amazon Rain Forest wild fire:

• Amazon is the world largest tropical rain forest and famous for its biodiversity.
• Amazon forest is still on fire this  is huge loss for environment as well as mankind.Thousands of rivers and the powerful river Amazon are famous for this rain forest.

• Amazon covers 5.5 million Sq.Km in the region of North west America Brazil,Perspeciesbia,Venezuela,Ecuador,Bolivia,Guyana,Suriname and France.
• BLA (Brazil Legal Amazon) consists of 60% of Amazon rain forest of the world
• By Aug,2019 as per INPE report more than 80,000 fires across Brazil. Year to year increases 77%. In this 40,000 fires from Brazil only.
• Jair Bolosonaro president of Brazil activities also caused to this fires and deforestation. 2018-19 Amazon deforestation and fires called by ecologist as Bolosonaro effect that much contribution Brazil have.
• Reasons for this are illegal mining, military training activities and usage of products by deforestation of Amazon.
• In Yanomami, territory of Brazil, 10,000 illegally mining companies invaded. Brazil government failed to control this.
• US contribution in Amazon deforestation is large enough, according to INPE report in Jan,2020 284.3sq.km coverage lost in a period of 30days, this shows how sever the problem is.

• Amazon tropical rain forest is important because of its Biodiversity and links with ecology. There are vital links between Amazon rain forest and global warming also its biodiversity.
• Yearly Amazon tropical rain forest Coverage is as follows

In 1970: 41,00,000sq.km(forest Coverage)
In 2019: 32,98,555sq.km(forest Coverage)
i.e in this period 8,01,449sq.km(coverage lost by deforestation and fire)
Final Word:
World Environment day has been celebrating since 1974, on 5 the June, significant improvement achieved by us, but this is not enough save out environment, need more and more. Every individual has to feel like prime duty in protecting environment. As theme of 2020 world environment days is Celebrate Biodiversity, with 1million species, directly indicates that Amazon forest conservation, as it is popular for its Biodiversity.

Is COVID Harm to Man and Charm to Nature?: Earth is healing during locked own

Positive effects of Covid Lockdown, Trade Capital of India,Mumbai became school of Dolphins.

Venice Canal Couldn't be more Cleaner.

Positive Signs that earth is healing.

Clear and Calm Water in Venice-Italy due to no boat traffic in the Canal

Effect of Lockdown on Marine Life

Post Covid World look like
Two big Choice
1.Totalitarian Surveillance and Citizen powerment.
2.Nationalist isolation and Global Solidarity.

Streets Become playgrounds for Most of the animals,sky is the limit for freedom.

Lockdown Affects Nature: Is COVID-19 Lockdown helping nature?

Lockdown is a measure to control COVID-19 but it controls pollution by limiting emissions of carbon, sewages, poisonous gases this leads to restore the nature. Lockdown applied in more than 200 countries especially, in the countries contributing major industrial share of global production.

Like US,China,Japan,Germany, Europe countries.. Huge industrial shut downs, less traffic in all the ways road, water way  aviation became advantages to nature restoration. All the international flights, domestic flights not allowed to fly. There is no goods transports except essentials as a result fuel consumption became less.
Is nature bouncing back?
Due to less carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses emissions, sewage enters in to water bodies like ponds, canals,rivers and sea. All these activities leads to decrease in global warming, Ozone layer healing, significant decrease in air pollution.

In very rare situations these type of global leads to new breath to the nature and man kind. By keen observation of history after every crisis, decrease in emission of Carbon dioxide(CO2), Nitrogen dioxide(NO2), chlorofluorocarbons(CFC), carbon, carbon monoxide(CO), methane(CH4).... For example the following 3 crisis situations we can find that

• After world war 1 and 2: Industrial infra structure collapsed globally and for some period was like lockdown, to restart the factories and few years latter carbon emissions started increasing. 
• During Soviet Union Collapse: During this world faces recession and industrial sector became inactive and emissions decreased for short while, again started increasing.
• During global financial crisis 2008-09:  Carbon emissions decreased to 1.4% after 9 years i.e: by 2018 increased to 16%.

There are so many pollution control measures like

• Anti pollution acts,1974 water pollution control act,1981 Concerning protection against pollution & Concerning waste, etc.
•  Global environmental movements, 
• Paris agreement on climate change and to control green house gases and carbon emissions, violated by US

All these actions have never given an expected results,but coronavirus lockdown is giving us Unintended Benefits for healthy climate.
Global emissions - Case studies:

• Satellite images given by NASA,ESA,CREA indicates that Venice canal 60 years clear.
• Himalayas looking clear due to decrease in air pollution levels.

• NO2 emission in China decreased 36% less than earlier ,200MT of carbon emissions decreased.
• Green house gases decreased 25% CO2 as 15-40% industrial production under shut down.
• Columbia university research in Network road traffic decrease by 35% as a result CO2 and methane levels decreased.
• Aviation sector contributes 2.4% of CO2 emission and 5% of Global warming, during lockdown all the international air lines and domestic air lines are not permitted to fly.
• Earth's layer protective layer from UV radiations was depleted due to pollution, but during this lockdown restoration of the layer speeds up, actually the major contribution of Ozone layer restoration is Montreal protocol 1987. University of Colorado Boulder.
• Gangatic dolphins more visible in VGBS Bihar India,  due to increase in AQI
• Pollution causes breathing problems, and corona virus effects on lungs and breathing problems so reduction of pollution helps in corona treatment.

As per the article info given by The Guardian.com

• China Italy UK,Germany and other decreased CO2 and NO2 greater than 40%
• Europe reduces 390MT Carbon Emissions
• China reduces 18% carbon emissions
• US fall by 40% CO2

As per the article Forbes.com

Ocean has much needed breathing space.
On the other hand according to the Forbes.com nature healing is not only by lockdown it's also by the precautionary measures and mitigation techniques several countries has crucial role.

Is lockdown needed every year to bounce back nature?
For the reduction of global warming we follow every year like that lock down for few days will helps to restore nature. But good governance needed for pollution free world.

• Effluent plants for reducing air pollution and sewage treatment plants to prevent water pollution needed. 
• Strict guide lines and rules should be followed by government not required any lockdown.
• Pollution control and awareness on protecting nature is not an yearly maintenance, it has to be a part of our life time activity.

Final word:
Nature healing prices is not only by lockdown for decades pollution control measures has been coming in to result now,  lockdown has a role in it. Past history we can get conformation that these emissions may increase in coming years, as every country has to boost up productivity in order to fill economy gap.