Today the Earth Day is celebrated all over the world
On March 20, Earth Day is celebrated all over the world. The founder of this holiday is John Morton,the American public figure. In the 1840s, he launched a campaign to plant trees and shrubs in the framework of the program of careful attitude of every citizen of the country to the environment. In 1872, he proposed to establish a day, which will be devoted to landscape gardening. So a Day of Tree was launched, which immediately became very popular. Starting from 1970, the sense of the holiday expanded to a general idea of environmental protection, and it got a new name - Earth Day, which became a national one. In 1971, in the Day of Vernal Equinox, the United Nations formally adopted this holiday. Subsequently, it became world-wide, with each year receiving ever wider international support.
Press Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan