Travel Journal

  World Rainforest Day This year, the theme of this day is ‘Protected Together. Now. Forever’. World Rainforest Day falls on 22 June 2021. The day is observed to raise awareness about preservation of rainforests.   Mahauskanda rainforest is a regenerated tropical rainforest bordering  Bambaragala forest reserve in Deniyaya, Rathnapura in  Sri Lanka. This land was a degraded  rubber estate  before the project to convert the plot of land to  regenerate a tropical rainforest by an environmentalist.   The reason to initiate World Rainforest Day in 2017 was to protect rainforests across the world as they are an integral part of the ecosystem. Rainforests play an important role in balancing climate change, providing fresh water and clean air to people. Deforestation, is the biggest threat to protect the forest reservation.   Attached picture is of Mahauskanda, captured in 2011.

  World Ocean Day is observed on 8th June every year since 2009. This years theme is, The Ocean : Life and Livelihoods. Ocean day is observed to increase awareness and knowledge about the importance of the ocean on earth and the role it plays on our lives. The idea of a World Ocean day was first proposed in 1992 at the Earth Summit held in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, but the day was officially established by the United Nations only in 2008. This year also marks the beginning of the UN decade of ocean science for sustainable development from 2021 to 2030.  Ocean plays a major role in sustaining life on earth. Initiating discussions on the conservation and protection of the ocean is important as much as other ecosystems on the planet, because larger part of our survival depends on the ocean and related activities. The Ocean provides around 50% of the oxygen we breath and absorb 30% of the carbon dioxide on planet earth. The Ocean is earths largest habitat and covers 70% of the ear...