Google Doodle marks Earth Day 2024 and reminds people to protect biodiversity for future generations | Trend news

The six letters remind people to “practice sustainable habits year-round and continue the work needed to conserve water, electricity and other resources,” according to the website.

While the letter G represents the Turks and Caicos Islands, the O depicts Mexico’s Scorpion Reef National Park – the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, which serves as a refuge for complex coral and several endangered bird and turtle species.

The third letter is about the Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland and the fourth about the Jaú National Park in Brazil, one of the largest forest reserves in South America and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The letter ‘L’ shows the Great Green Wall in Nigeria, an “African Union-led initiative is restoring desertification-affected land across the breadth of Africa, planting trees and other vegetation while implementing sustainable land management practices.”

The final letter ‘E’ refers to the Pilbara Islands Nature Reserves in Australia, which according to the website are ‘one of twenty nature reserves in Australia that help protect fragile ecosystems, increasingly rare natural habitats and a number of threatened species. .”

The theme for this year’s Earth Day is ‘Planet vs. Plastics’, which calls to ‘advocate for widespread awareness of the health risks of plastics, to rapidly phase out all single-use plastics, to urgently push for a strong UN treaty against plastic pollution, and to demand a end to fast fashion,” according to the official Earth Day website.

The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 and was organized by Denis Hayes. In the late 1960s, several environmental issues were brought up for public discussion.