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IUCN Nepal celebrates World Environment Day Building on the past successful experiences, IUCN Nepal observed World Environment Day 2007 with awareness raising programmes to stimulate public awareness on the impacts of climate change and enhance national attention and action. Amidst more than 3000 participants in the Green Environmental Parade, the message "Melting Ice: A Hot Topic” was advocated mostly by school children that paraded through major thoroughfares of Lalitpur district. The message was loud and clear which stated that urgent measures are needed to protect the vast hidden treasures from the impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems and livelihoods in Nepal. The theme has called on each and everyone to act and highlights the challenges raised by one of the major trends of our times--climate change. It raises an alarm that rising levels of greenhouse gases are already changing the climate and that the Himalayan glaciers are retreating fast and could disappear within the next 50 years. The World Environment Day celebration was jointly organised by The World Conservation Union Nepal Country Office, Central Zoo, Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City and WWF Nepal. Meanwhile, IUCN Nepal participated at a national level exhibition organised by the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology. The three-day exhibition was inaugurated at a special ceremony by Hon. Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Mr. Ram Chandra Poudel. IUCN Nepal has been celebrating World Environment Day with colourful activities such as environmental parade, essays and art competitions in schools, tree plantation, as well as clean-up campaigns. For more information, please contact:
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