Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau

What can you do for Earth Day? The answer is: anything that is meaningful to you and for the environment! Each year, Earth Day inspires action in communities around the world. All around the world, people take part in Earth Day events and actions, which educate, spread awareness and push for tangible change. Every voice counts; every action matters. Earth Day is based on the simple philosophy that ordinary people, acting together, can achieve extraordinary things. [Earth Day Pledge]

Commemorated each year on June 5, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

The United Nations' agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future. World Environment Day is a people's event with colourful activities such as street rallies, bicycle parades, green concerts, essays and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, as well as recycling and clean-up campaigns.

Is an annual celebration of the vital importance of international wetlands to ecological and human health. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. World Wetlands Day was first celebrated in 1997. Since this time government agencies, non-government organisations and community groups have celebrated World Wetlands Day by undertaking actions to raise public awareness of wetland values and benefits and promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands. These activities include seminars, nature walks, festivals, launches of new policies, announcement of new Ramsar sites, newspaper articles, radio interviews and wetland rehabilitation.

The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water by adopting a resolution.This world day for water was to be observed starting in 1993, in conformity with the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development contained in chapter 18 (Fresh Water Resources) of Agenda 21.

States were invited to devote the Day to implement the UN recommendations and set up concrete activities as deemed appropriate in the national context.

The Subcommittee welcomes the assistance offered by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to contribute to an information network centre in support of the observance of the Day by Governments, as required.

Started on 8 June 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . However, it is not an officially recognized secular holiday by the United Nations as of yet.

World Ocean Day is an opportunity every year to honor the world's ocean that connects us all, celebrate the products the ocean provides, such as seafood , as well as marine life itself for aquariums , pets , and also a time to appreciate its own intrinsic value. The ocean also provides sea-lanes for international trade. Global pollution and over-consumption of fish have resulted in drastically dwindling population of the majority of species .

The Ocean Project, working in partnership with the World Ocean Network, is working to build much greater awareness of the crucial role of the ocean in our lives and the important ways people can help. World Ocean Day provides an opportunity to get directly involved in protecting our future, through a new mindset and personal and community action and involvement – beach cleanups, educational programs, art contests, film festivals, sustainable seafood events, and other planned activities help to raise consciousness of how our lives depend on the ocean. These two organizations are collecting signatures to a petition to be presented to the United Nations asking them to designate June 8th as World Ocean Day.

On February 28, 1999,then President Joseph E. Estrada issued Proclamation No. 79 declaring June 4-10 of every year as the Philippine Eagle Week (PEW). Said Proclamation aims specifically i)to strengthen public awareness on the significant role of the Philippine Eagle in the forest ecosystem, and its importance as a national symbol and unique heritage, among others; ii)to generate unified and concerted efforts among all sectors of the society to ensure the protection and perpetuation of the species; and iii)to encourage non-government organizations, private companies or corporations, people's organization, academic and scientific organizations and all aother interested parties to participate in the annual celebration of the PEW.Various activities are being undertaken by DENR-PAWB, DENR Regional Offices and partner non-government organizations during the yearly celebration of the Philippine Eagle Week nationwide.These include motorcade, seminars/lectures on biodiversity focusing of the Philippine Eagle, film showing, exhibits, art-contests and distribution of information materials.

“ The continuous survival of the Tamaraw mainly depends on the unified and concerted efforts not only of the Mindoreños but all the Filipinos.”

This is the very essence of Presidential Proclamation No. 273 that declares October of every year as a “Special Month for the Conservation and Protection of the Tamaraw in Mindoro ”. Under said Proclamation, all government offices, agencies and instrumentalities in the whole Island of Mindoro are urged to implement activities geared toward the conservation of the Tamaraw and its habitats at least during the month of October.

OCTOBER is celebrated in the Philippines as Indigenous People's Month. The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) are the lead institutions in this yearly celebration honoring the indigenous people of the country.

Arbor Day was founded by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1872.It is one day in the year that celebrates trees and was held to promote replanting following deforestation.Although it was a nationally celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and tree care in the United States, it has now been adopted and observed by other countries including the Philippines. Philippines celebrates June 25 as Philippine Arbor Day.This ceremony often involves the participation of school students, community members and sometimes officials from the local government units or government agencies to promote the care and conservation of the environment through revegetation.