Environmental Awareness Booklet First Edition 2018

Embassy of ItalyThe BirdLife International Partner in Zimbabwe

Did you know?

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY ON 5 JUNE 2018 will have as its theme Beat Plastic Pollution and to coincide with this the Italian Embassy has decided to use its annual "AMBIENTE" - Art and the Environment - project to raise awareness of this vitally important issue, especially amongst children. This awareness and educational campaign will highlight the effects of micro and

, the food chain and human health.

initiatives begun in 2014 by His Excellency Enrico De Agostini, Ambassador of Italy to Zimbabwe, to raise awareness about the protection of the environment through art. Previous themes have included the protection of Zimbabwe's wetlands ("Matoro Anoyera" - 2014), the importance of recycling ("Waste no Waste, Trash is Treasure" - 2015), the protection of birds' habitats ("Your Nest is My Nest" - 2016) and sustainable water management ("Wet-Land-Dry" - 2017).

Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times?!

There is more micro plastic in the ocean than there are stars in the milky way?!

More than one million plastic bags are used every minute of every day?!

All the plastic that has ever been made in the world still exists in one way or another?!

Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the previous century?!

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