World Bee Day 2020 – Date, Theme, Purpose of the Day
- Bees and other pollinators like bats, butterflies are gradually under the global threat of extinction due to human activities. According to experts, the survival of our ecosystem is largely dependent on the fundamental process of pollination.
- Bees and other pollinators like bats, butterflies are gradually under the global threat of extinction due to human activities. According to experts, the survival of our ecosystem is largely dependent on the fundamental process of pollination.
- Hence to raise awareness about the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, World Bee Day is celebrated. Like every year, World Bee Day 2020 will be celebrated on May 20.
- World Bee Day 2020 will aim at strengthening measures to protect bees and other pollinators like every year.
- According to United Nations guidelines, World Bee Day aims at significantly contributing to solving problems related to the global food supply chain and eliminate hunger in developing countries.
- The original aim of the Metre Convention – the world-wide uniformity of measurement – remains as important today as it was in 1875.
- The World Metrology Day project is realized jointly by the BIPM and the OIML.
World Bee Day Theme 2020
- World Bee Day 2020 theme is “Save the Bees” according to the UN.
- The theme of World Bee Day 2020 stresses the protection of bees and other pollinators.
- Not only that but the World Bee Day 2020 theme also aims at protecting the natural habitat of pollinators.
Purpose of the Day-
- On May 20, the pioneer of beekeeping Anton Jansa was born in 1734 in Slovenia hence every year this year is celebrated as World Bee Day.
- Approved by the United Nations, the First World Bee Day was celebrated on Sunday, May 20, 2018.
- World Bee Day 2020 falls on a Wednesday, this year.
- The purpose of the Bee Day is to acknowledge the role of bees in the ecosystem. The United Nations Member States approved the proposal of World Bee Day in December 2017.
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