🌳 Van Mahotsav – The Festival of Forests

📅 Date: 1st to 7th July (every year)

🌱 What is it about?

Van Mahotsav is a week-long celebration across India that promotes tree planting and forest conservation. It encourages everyone—especially youth—to connect with nature and take responsibility for protecting it.

❗ Why is it important?

🌲 Trees purify the air and give us oxygen
🌧️ Help maintain the water cycle and bring rainfall
🐿️ Provide shelter and food to wildlife
🌍 Fight climate change and global warming
⚠️ Forests are vanishing due to urbanization and deforestation—we must act now!

🎉 Let’s Celebrate By:

🌿 Planting and adopting trees
📚 Learning about forest conservation in schools
🖼️ Making posters, drawings, and slogans
🚯 Cleaning green spaces around us
🌱 Pledging to protect nature every day

🪵 Fun Fact:

K.M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture, started Van Mahotsav in 1950 to restore India’s green cover.

💚 Tagline:

“Plant Today, Breathe Tomorrow!”
or
“Each One, Plant One!”