22nd June each year is celebrated as World Rainforest Day. World Rainforest Day was first marked on 22nd June 2017 by the Rainforest Partnership. Rainforest Partnership works with indigenous people living in rainforest environments and launch projects to help restore and regenerate healthy rainforests with local communities. The day is about raising awareness of the importance of the rainforest and what it does for us. By coming together on the day, we can all take positive and hopeful action to protect the rainforest and preserve its lifespan as it has maintained our own lives for thousands of years. The theme for this year's World Rainforest Day 2022 is: "The time is Now". The time is now for all of us to safeguard, preserve and conserve the rainforest ecosystem for our generation and the future generations. Rainforests are earth's oldest living ecosystems, with some surviving in their present form for at least 70 million years. Humans are the biggest threat to rainforests, and humans only have the power to save them. Let's safeguard our rainforests.
THE RAINFORESTS PROVIDES FOOD, SHELTER AND MEDICINE FOR HUMANS.
Rainforests are home to many different species of plant life and animals. A " Living Pharmacy " explained by some due to it's many resources for medicine and therapy. It is undoubtedly a true paradise, a paradise on the verge of fading away. Currently, 2% of our world is covered by rainforests, a dangerously low percentage. Scientists predicts that our current lifestyles will continue to reduce rainforests, ultimately fading away forever. "A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forest are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people" - Franklin D. Roosevelt. Rainforests are critical to biodiversity, climate regulation, human health, daily life and so much more. Although rainforests only cover about 2% of the earth's surface area, they harbour 50% of all terrestrial biodiversity. This biodiversity is the source of many products we use today, like coffee, cocoa, spices, certain medications, common fruits and vegetables. Their capacity to absorb and store carbon, and to regulate climate over entire continents make rainforests our greatest allies when it comes to countering and reversing some of the worst effects of climate change. Rainforests are also home to millions of people who represent invaluable knowledge, traditions, and cultural diversity. Indigenous and local rainforest communities are critical to the protection of these ecosystems.
THE RAINFORESTS PROVIDES ABOUT 20% OF OXYGEN FOR OTHER LIVING ORGANISMS ( HUMANS AND ANIMALS).
STANDING FORESTS PROVIDE PROTECTION AGAINST TYPHOONS, DROUGHTS, FLOODS AND EROSION.
World Rainforest Day is a joint effort to promote knowledge and inspire action in order to conserve one of the most valuable resources, our rainforests. The day is a celebration of these valuable natural treasures and is intended to spur action to protect them. We are on the edge of a severe environmental and demographic crisis. It is crucial to remember that rainforests are an integral aspect of our planet's ecosystem. Rainforests cover less than 3% of the earth's surface, but circulate more than 20% of the oxygen we breathe. They are the reason for the oxygen we breathe and the shelter they give for many species. Without their help, our earth might face serious consequences. It's time to put yourself in the driver's seat of this crucial concern and take ownership of safeguarding our rainforest for a healthy standing trees.
THE RAINFORESTS - SERVES AS HABITAT (ABODE) FOR TERRESTRIAL SPECIES.
Our rainforests supports a wide set of ecological diversity, ranging from large mammals to little birds. They also provide protection against typhoons, droughts, floods and erosion. Rainforests cycle water and nutrients, and keep temperatures and climate conditions stable over entire continents. They also pump carbondioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in trees and soils, where it is safely captured and used by living organisms. Rainforests are home to many of the species in the animal kingdom and are also crucial to our planet's sustainability. Protecting and restoring them means safeguarding the communities living around the area and those farther downstream. If our forests are flourishing, so will we. Half of the animal and plant species are found in the rainforests. More than 25% of medicines we use originate from rainforest plants. It is estimated that an area as large as the size of 40 football field is lost every minute of everyday and that is based on the current rate of deforestation, it has been anticipated that 28,000 species will become extinct by 2050.
World Rainforest Day mark the significance of our tropical rainforests. Not only do they support the largest variety of plants and animal species of any other ecosystem in the world, but also influence weather patterns and act as major carbon sinks. Rainforests serves as the lungs of the planet, absorbing the atmospheric carbondioxide and green house gases (GHG) which help in regulating global temperatures. Rainforests can influence global weather, and are home to half of the world's terrestrial species. Together, let's protect our rainforests. World Rainforest Day is about collaboration to accelerate our shared mission of ending deforestation. To celebrate, join leaders in forest conservation and people from all over the world in a day of diverse and exciting events and opportunities to connect directly with people on the front lines of rainforest protection and from all sectors. Today and everyday, l recognize and celebrate standing, healthy forests as one of the most powerful and cost-effective climate change mitigation tools we have. Equally important are their guardians, the leaders and communities that have dedicated their lives to protecting these vital ecosystems. When it comes to reversing and mitigating some of the worse effects of climate change, rainforests are our greatest allies. Climate change and biodiversity loss are the two greatest existential crises of our time. Our actions in the next decade will be instrumental in defining the course of our future. We must protect standing forests, their biodiversity, their carbon stocks, and their communities are key to securing a thriving future for us and our planet.
MEASURES TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE THE RAINFORESTS.
Lastly, to ensure that rainforests are protected and conserved, governments at all levels of governance, and relevant stakeholders must adopt policies to safeguard the rainforests by putting up the following measures;
1. Create Awareness: Educating young people about the social and environmental value of rainforests and directing them towards sustainable living will be essential to saving the remaining primary rainforests.
2. Enact Tougher laws: Proper land demarcation, tougher fines for human encroachments, regulating deforestation for industries and preventing species trafficking.
3. Through Reforestation: Most common action should be taken in restoring the lost primary forests by replanting them.
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A BRIEF PERSONAL BACKGROUND OF MR. ENOBONG EKWERE (ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST ) IN NIGERIA.
Comrade Enobong Ekwere is a social influencer, blogger, vlogger, climate activist, peace practitioner, SDGs advocate, grassroot social mobilizer and a global citizen. He is the program manager of children and young people living for peace (CYPLP), an organic, voluntary, youth focused and a think-tank non-governmental organization based in Kaduna state, Nigeria. A Higher National Diploma (HND) graduate of Public Administration (Upper Credit) level from the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State, Nigeria. Enobong Ekwere holds a proficiency certificate in management from the Nigerian Institute of Management, Chartered (NIM) Lagos, Nigeria. He is also a graduate member of the institute (Associate member in view). He works with young people in local communities across Nigeria localizing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), SDG13, 14 and 15 in particular and positive peace frameworks in Nigeria, accelerating action online and offline, engaging duty bearers and policy makers to be accountable for it's implementation by 2030. Enobong Ekwere is a strong advocate of good governance and democracy, accountability in government, freedom of information, access to information, free press, social justice and social inclusion. As a youth advocate and a global leader who loves to see social reforms in the society, he uses his personalized blog to write compelling stories on developmental issues on national and global concern that shapes and transform people's lives and impact the larger society for knowledge transfer and lifelong learning. He engages in community service and volunteerism, community outreach, social mobilization and advocacy tours to hard to reach local communities in Nigeria advocating and advancing the cause of the SDGs and SDG13, 14 and 15 in particular so that no community and youth in Kaduna State and Nigeria at large would be left behind. CYPLP as an organization works primarily in serving vulnerable population of children, youth and women in unserved, underserved, underrepresented, disadvantaged and marginalized local communities in Nigeria.
He can be reached via: +2347082558952
Email: julyenobong2020@gmail.com
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MY PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES:
FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/enobong.ekwere.372
TWITTER:
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INSTAGRAM:
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LINKEDIN:
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MY ORGANIZATION'S SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES:
FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/cyplp.net.ng/
TWITTER:
http://www.twitter.com/youngpeoplefor/
INSTAGRAM:
http://www.instagram.com/cyplp/
WEBSITE:
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INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER - INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (IHRC) GENEVA, SWITZERLAND. 2023.
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