From CEA
Throughout the year, the international community celebrates numerous “world” days to bring attention to issues important to all of us around the globe. They include: Wetlands, Water, Meteorology, Health, Earth, Birds, Biodiversity, Environment, Oceans and Population. These internationally recognized days both celebrate and warn of something, hopefully to raise our awareness about the particular issue, whether it is resource use or protection of migratory bird species’ habitats.
Akumal represents a microcosm of these issues, from the mangroves around us and the water we use, to our community’s health and the ocean at our shores. Nature has come together to provide us with incredible surroundings, resources and biodiversity. We are at a point in which we must understand the relationship between all these elements and our place among them or we may affect them in a manner so adverse we cause irreparable damage to them and eventually to ourselves.
As our lives unfold each day, our actions should reflect an understanding of how we depend and impact upon water, weather, health, biodiversity and soil, among the myriad components that define our environment, our home. It’s easy, once we think out, around and through things—what products we use, how we manage our waste, what we put into our groundwater, what we teach our children or how we treat each other. It all comes together somehow, and we acknowledge international days as reminders of a time for reflection and action. To find out more about these “World Days," go to www.un.org/events/
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