50th World Environment Day – in pictures
Images from around the world taken on World Environment Day, an annual global event celebrated on 5 June to raise awareness, mobilise action and promote environmental sustainability
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People collect reusable items at the Boragaon dump site in Guwahati, India
Photograph: David Talukdar/Shutterstock
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Schoolchildren visit an orchard on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on World Environment Day
Photograph: Faisal Bashir/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
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An aerial view of the Adolpho Ducke forest reserve, part of the Amazon rainforest, and properties in the east of Manaus, Brazil
Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty Images
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A man dressed in plastic waste walks down a street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Photograph: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images
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People collect plastic from a waste dump in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip
Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A worker prepares plastic for processing to extract fuel in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip
Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A woman collects aluminium cans on the Educandos creek in Manaus, Brazil
Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty Images
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A nightjar before being released into the wild in Bogotá, Colombia
Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
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Schoolchildren play with an Earth balloon on World Environment Day in Firmat, Argentina
Photograph: Patricio Murphy/Shutterstock
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Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Raoni Metuktire, a Brazilian Indigenous leader, during a ceremony to celebrate World Environment Day at the Planalto Palace in Brasília
Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images
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Workers sort through a pile of tens of thousands of plastic household items at a recycling factory in Barishal, Bangladesh
Photograph: Mustasinur Rahman Alvi/Zuma Press/Shutterstock
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A man bathes in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in Delhi, India
Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images
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Activists dressed as oil executives take part in a protest in Cape Town, South Africa, to call for a permanent ban on oil exploration in Antarctica
Photograph: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images
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A bird flies through smoke rising from paddy stubble burning at a farm in Dongri, a village on the outskirts of Mumbai, India
Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA
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Saplings are planted in Lalitpur, Nepal, on World Environment Day
Photograph: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
