World Forestry Day 2024: On 21st March 2024, World Forest Day 2024 is celebrated all over the world. It is an international event observed all over the world annually on March 21st every year to ring a bell among society about the importance of forests and the scores of benefits that are gained from them. This Day celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of all types of forests. This World Forest Day 2024 is observed on the United Nations (UN) recommendation every year on the 21st of March. The UN General Assembly proclaimed March 21 as the International Day of Forests in 2012 to commemorate and raise awareness of the significance of all types of forests. Various organizations, private and government, work together on this day to enlighten people not only about the forests at large but also about the trees and vegetation that exist outside of the forested areas. World Forest Day 2024 is celebrated to make people aware of the importance of the green cover not only today but also for all future generations. This day is a reminder of the value of forests in the lives of living creatures.

We depend on forests for our survival, from the air we breathe to the wood we use. Besides providing habitats for animals and livelihoods for humans, forests also offer watershed protection, prevent soil erosion and mitigate climate change.

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World Forestry Day 2024 Date

• World Forest day 2024 is celebrated all over the world on the 21st of March 2024.

World Forestry Day History

Previously, the 16th session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) voted to “World Forestry Day" in 1971. Then, from 2007 to 2012, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) held six Forest Days. Partnering with Collaborative Partnership on Forest, 2011 was declared as the Year of Forests. On November 28, 2012, The United Nations General Assembly declared that March 21 shall be celebrated as World Forest Day.

World Forestry Day 2024 Theme

The theme for World Forestry Day 2024 is 'Forests and innovation: New solutions for a better world'. This theme of International Forests Day also means that all the life possible on earth is somehow related to the existence of forests. The water we drink, the medicines we take, the food we enjoy, the shelter we have come under, and even the oxygen we need, all have an association with forests. And we can never deny such vitality when life is running with their animation.

World Forestry Day 2024 Significance

The fundamental purpose to celebrate an international day of forests is to let the people know about the significance of trees. The most critical phase from which the world is passing through nowadays is a complexity in the form of Climate Change. The proportion of Ozone has decreased to a threatening level while the only reason behind it is pollution as a result of human activities on earth. Despite having alternate means, these producers and providers of oxygen are badly affected and are being uprooted for industrial and domestic use. A dangerous rise in the temperature and adverseness in the seasonal cycle is a vivid gesture of vulnerable destruction and the decline of life on our planet. Among the UN’s other motives to comply with, tackling climate change at the moment comes in preliminary categories and this is what signifies the observance of this day with more passion, zeal, and determination. The purpose of this day is to urge every individual to contribute what he or she can to secure this planet on their part.

World Forestry Day 2024 Quotes

• 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.

• The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the ax-man who destroys it.

• The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shadow you do not expect to sit.

World Forestry Day 2024: FAQS

Q. Who started World forest Day?

The International Day of Forests was established on the 21st day of March, by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on November 28, 2012.

Q. Why is forest Day celebrated?

The UN General Assembly proclaimed March 21 as the International Day of Forests in 2012 to commemorate and raise awareness of the significance of all types of forests. This day is a reminder of the value of forests in the lives of living creatures.

Q. When is World Forest day 2024 celebrated?

World Forest day 2024 is celebrated all over the world on the 21st of March 2024.