On the evening of March 30th, the "Earth Hour" Shanghai home event of "Moisturizing Everything, Protecting Nature" sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
More than 20 top high-rise buildings in Shanghai's Lujiazui area went to the appointment of lights out
In the evening, many urban buildings in Shanghai, including more than 20 top-level high-rise buildings in the Lujiazui area, went to the lights-out meeting; seven cruise ship companies of the Pujiang River Cruise Ship Alliance participated in the lights-out ceremony for the first time; and 63 stores of Yintai Group across the country also joined the lights-out ceremony.
The global theme for Earth Hour 2019 is Connect to Nature. Combined with the upcoming UN Convention on Biological Diversity Conference to be held in China for the first time next year, WWF China has carried out a variety of themed activities in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan and other cities with the theme of "coexistence with nature", calling on everyone to pay attention to biodiversity, learn from action, and jointly protect the future.
The slogan "60+ Turn off the lights and light up hope" is displayed on the high-rise buildings in Shanghai's Lujiazui area
In order to echo this theme, and combined with the location characteristics of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the work of "Great Protection of the Yangtze River", WWF Shanghai held a landing activity with the theme of "Moisturizing All Things, Protecting Life and Nature".
In the theme activities of the evening, experts and scholars from Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta shared the story of "Hydra" with the invited guests: sturgeon in the water, roe deer in the wetland, birds on the beach, farmers in rice and flower fields...
Located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is the "pulse" of the Yangtze River, and its ecosystem health also reflects the ecosystem health of the whole basin. In the evening, the WWF Freshwater Project officially announced the introduction of the Traceable Hiking Environmental Protection Action from South Africa into the Yangtze River Basin, calling on everyone to recognize that "Water Doesn't Come From a Tap" and pay attention to the protection of resources from the tap to the water source.
Earth Hour was launched by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007 and officially entered China in 2009. Shanghai was the first provincial-level city to officially participate in the operation.
In the past ten years since entering China, "Earth Hour" has already surpassed the one-hour lights-out activity, and has become the world's largest open source environmental protection action with the positioning of "60+".
According to the 2018 Vital Planet Report released by WWF, wildlife populations have nearly 60% died out in just 40 years, and human activities directly pose the greatest threat to species, including habitat loss and degradation and overexploitation of nature.
"The 2018 Vital Life of the Earth Report shows that the proportion of biodiversity declines in freshwater ecosystems has been particularly pronounced at an average rate of 83 percent since the 1970s." Earth Hour gives us an opportunity to reflect on the past and look forward to the future," said Dr. Wenwei Ren, Director of WWF China Freshwater Program. For Shanghai, a city on the waterfront, water is particularly important.