(INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTS)
Every year, on 21st March, the world celebrates International Day of Forests to increase the public awareness among communities about the values, significance and contributions of the forests to balance the life cycle on Planet Earth.
Here are some reasons to celebrate World Forestry Day highlighting importance of forests in our life;
- Provide essential resources
- Haven of biodiversity
- Home to nearly half of all species
- Provide shelter to millions of human beings
- Support employment
- Sustain rural livelihoods
- Provide food security and nutrition
- Fight climate change
- Beat the heat
- Regulate temperatures
- Clean the air
- Help in breathing
- Clean up dirty soil
- Protect from natural disasters
- Soak up runoff and protect other ecosystems
- Playgrounds for recreation
- Provide life-saving medicines
- Help rainfall generation
- Refill aquifers
- Block the wind
- Muffle noise pollution
- Inspire and heal the body and soul
- Purify water bodies and resources
- Hold spiritual and cultural values
- Pillars to survival of human and humanity
Here is a e-quiz for you to be a part of greening Our Earth. Enjoy and score thirty percent or more to receive an e-Certificate. The quiz shall remain open until 31 March 2022.
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