World Forestry Day | Let’s Secure Our Future!

Today, 21 of March, is observed as the World Forestry Day. Obviously, the reason behind this is to have a day for the forests, so that we could have an excuse to think about its importance and to spread the word about deforestation.

And why this day? Is there anything significant about it? Yes there is! Spring Equinox falls on this day. It is one of two days in a year when length of day and night are equal, the other being September 22.

On this day, the Spring season starts. And association of this date with forests seems most appropriate. Forests on the other hand are facing extinction. Urbanization wiped out almost every forest area around a city giving place to concrete jungles with no life at all, even though lots of lives are liven in them. Forests in far away places from the cities are no escapists. They are being exploited for the number of resources they contain. Cash crops are grown by destroying wild forests.

Nilgiris, The Blue Mountains in Tamilnadu are victims of greedy people who want to mint money by making use of the thriving tourism industry there. Forests are set fire and destroyed, making some more space for the tourism business to grow. This in turn had disturbed the natural balance of the region. Recent rains wrecked havoc. Unprecedented path taken by the flood water caused landslides and road blockages cutting the area from the outer world for days.

Go visit a forest nearby, you may probably miss one!