The ‘Only One Earth’ theme of the very first World Environment Day observed and adopted by the UN in 1972 speaks much about the need of reflecting on our actions and decisions that had held us, hostage, today inside our homes. Years of continuous pollution, environmental degradation, and exploitation of natural resources, disruption in the ecosystem, unnatural ways, and unnatural place has exhausted and slowed nature’s capabilities to restore and rejuvenate it. This year as we enter a whole new decade, the UN has decided to give a helping hand to Mother Nature and launched the 10-year UN decade plan on ecosystem Restoration to stop environmental degradation and work on bringing back the balance. We here at VDG have made our conscious choice and extended our support to the cause in a few ways.

The VDG team has planted more than 25 saplings on the occasion of World Environment Day 2021 in Sonapur, Kamrup, Assam, where hopefully a small contribution will inspire many more others to make their own conscious choices.