World Oceans Day is celebrated on June 8 each year to create awareness among human beings of the benefits it has enjoyed from the ocean so far.
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This year, the theme of World Ocean Day is ‘The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods’. The day highlights the need and necessity to protect oceans from further deterioration. The United Nations (UN) declared World Oceans Day as an official occasion in 2008.
This was first suggested in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The aim behind this was to not only celebrate the vast water body and its benefits in our lives but also to raise awareness about what can be done to make it a part of sustainable development.
UNESCO states that this day is observed to remind everyone that oceans are the lungs of our planet. Awareness is raised about how to conserve it and rescue it from the eventual degradation that is caused by our careless activities.