Caption: Students and Local Guides collecting plastic wastes and creating awareness.
This year, as usual, I participated in the annual World Environmental Day which I have been doing since 2003.
As part of the year’s event, the Department of Environmental Management of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) hosted various events to create awareness on ways to end plastic pollution.
We organized a seminar, tree planting and collection of plastic waste around the campus. Staff and students later proceeded on a walk against plastic within the school complex.
Caption: Academics and Staff of the University during the awareness walk within the campus.
Our University, FUTO also joined the Nature Positive Universities network and pledged to become a ‘Nature Positive University’ as part to the Net-Zero GHG emissions. The Nature Positive Pledge (NPP) is aimed at getting commitments to halting and reversing nature loss so that species and ecosystems begin to recover. The Nature Positive Universities Network is made up of over 500 universities worldwide.
The United Nations Environment Programme believe that universities can use their influence and resources help lead their communities recover natural ecosystems while limiting climate change.
Student Local Guides used the opportunity to edit and review places along the route. They discovered unmapped buildings and some areas that were not visible on the maps which we plan to review later.
Participants made a pledge to reduce, reuse and recycle plastics at all times while protecting our natural plants and animals within their natural habitats.
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