KATHMANDU: The world is observing Environment Day on June 5 to celebrate the environment that we live in and to spread awareness for its conservation. Nepal usually marked the day by organising various programmes across the country, however, due to the coronavirus contagion this year, no programmes have been organised owing to the nationwide lockdown.

The Day is marked on June 5 every year since 1974. Colombia has been designated the global host of World Environment Day 2020.

The theme of this year’s World Environment Day is Bio Diversity - a concern that is both urgent and existential -  with the call " This World Environment Day, learn how all living things on Earth are connected in the web of life and how we can act #ForNature."

Recent events, from bushfires in Brazil, the United States, and Australia to locust infestations across East Africa – and now, a global disease pandemic – demonstrate the interdependence of humans and the webs of life, in which they exist.