Every year, the United Nations marks June 5th as World Environment Day, a day designed to raise global awareness and action for environmental protection.
Bollywood actor Bhumi Pednekar planted 3000 saplings across Maharashtra on World Environment Day as part of her ongoing commitment to environmental protection. It is well known that Bhumi Pednekar is an activist for climate change and sustainability. As a result of deforestation worldwide, she took this opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of tree planting and its positive impact on the climate.
Bhumi Pednekar said, “The planet is in peril because of various human activities, especially deforestation, and if we fail to do something about it now, our future will be affected irreversibly. Fortunately, nature is surprisingly resilient - territories, regions and places that we have damaged, if given time and help, can once again support life and can be given a second chance. So, I urge everyone to try and plant as many trees as possible.”
She added, “Trees provide the oxygen we breathe. It affects so many things positively for our nature and our planet. We should pause and think that if there are no trees, there is no planet. That lays upon us an enormous responsibility to save the planet for our future generations. On World Environment Day, I’m doing my bit to make Earth a cleaner, greener planet. I will be doing this consistently and I hope others will too.”
Bhumi Pednekar is a strong proponent of conscious ecology and the first National Advocate for UNDP`s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through her non-profit Climate Warrior, she actively takes part in drives, beach clean-ups, waste segregation, rainwater harvesting, recycling and upcycling, sustainable living, etc.
