To mark World Environment Day, a group of university and college students chanted "No pollution! We want to survive!" yesterday in Taipei to raise public awareness to environmental issues.
The students from National Taiwan University, Tung Hai University and other universities and colleges gathered at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. Some of them went shirtless to show their determination to protect the nation's environment.
Wu Hung-chun (
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
Wu and his schoolmate Chang Chia-sheng (
As the students marched toward the Presidential Office, members of the public joined them. They hoped the activity would draw 1,000 participants.
They appealed for environmentally friendly policies, clean water sources, safe food and water, recyclable energy, unspoiled mountains and forests, and values fashioned through self-awareness.
World Environment Day is one of the principle means by which the UN stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.
This year's World Environment Day theme is "Green Cities" with the slogan "Plan for the Planet." The UN Environment Program (UNEP) said World Environment Day is an event for the people, with colorful activities such as street rallies, bicycle parades, green concerts, essay and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, as well as recycling and clean-up campaigns.
The main international ceremony for World Environment Day 2005 will be held in San Francisco.
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