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World Oceans Day - June 8th

Watersheds…your link to Canada’s oceans…explore the connection!

Table of Contents

• Ten things you can do to help protect your oceans
• BeachSweeps!
• Oceans Day 2006 - Events and Activities
• Oceans Day Activity Links

Oceans Day, June 8th, is a time to remember the life-giving role of oceans worldwide. This international celebration, declared a decade ago at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, has grown from a ripple into a tidal wave of awareness about the importance of our oceans.

This year’s Oceans Day theme is “Watersheds…your link to Canada’s oceans…explore the connection!”. The theme emphasizes our connection to the ocean, no matter where we live – inland or by the coast. By exploring and discovering our links to the oceans, we learn how closely connected each of us are to the ocean. What we do in our backyard and community can have a positive or negative affect on our oceans. Water travels from our oceans to the atmosphere to land and back to our oceans again. Water resources are limited, and all of the water now present on Earth is all there is. Protection of our oceans starts with the protection of our watersheds, and protection of our watersheds starts with you!

There are four main objectives to World Oceans Day:

• It is a chance to change perspective - encouraging individuals to think about what the oceans mean to them and what they have to offer.
• It is a chance to learn - many people do not realize the wealth of diverse and beautiful creatures and habitats which are found in the oceans, and how our actions affect them.
• It is a chance to alter our ways - people can be encouraged to become caretakers of our oceans and to conserve them for the future.
• It is a chance to celebrate - whether you live inland or on the coast you can organize or participate in events focusing upon our oceans.

Find out what events and activities Canadians are participating in this Oceans Day.