As billions around the globe prepare to celebrate World Environment Day this week, Fiji will look at ways of minimising the impacts to environments that Fijians source food from.
Director for Environment Jope Davetanivalu highlighted that this was a theme that Fiji will use to enable Fijians to become “responsible environment stewards”.
“We as a population of this world, we are utilizing natural resources where we source our food and at times, a large amount of this goes to waste,” Mr Davetanivalu said.
“We need to think and act responsibly so that future generations are able to benefit from sustainable environment in the future,” Mr Davetanivalu said.
The weeklong celebrations will include eco-challenge activities for schools and clean up campaigns that will be carried out during the week.
Meanwhile, the department of environment is closing monitoring the enforcement of the litter decree that prosecutes any person that is found littering.
“Enforcement at the various councils are ongoing however one of the major challenge is prosecuting individuals with the assistance from the various stakeholders people have been prosecuted for not abiding to the law,” he said.
With the theme “THINK.EAT.SAVE”, reduce your Food print”, the department is optimistic of encouraging everyone to become good environment stewards and save our environment.
Research from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reveal that 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year. This gives an enormous imbalance to lifestyles and the result includes devastating effects on the environment.
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