World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on June 8.
It was first proposed by two Canadian organizations at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992 as a way to celebrate our shared oceans, and to raise awareness about the important role it plays and how people can help protect it. Take a look at how people are marking the ocean today.
In Brazil
People link hands along São Conrado beach for a symbolic group hug with the sea in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. The Route Brasil environmental organization called for people to gather for the event to draw attention to ocean pollution.
(Bruna Prado/The Associated Press)
(Bruna Prado/The Associated Press)
During the event, volunteers including these children pick up trash from São Conrado beach.
(Bruna Prado/The Associated Press)
In Indonesia
An aerial view shows municipal workers collecting garbage, most of which is plastic and domestic waste, during World Ocean Day along Jakarta’s shoreline.
(Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)
A person hunts for recyclable items along a polluted shore in Jakarta.
(Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)
A bird is seen walking among the trash.
(Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)
In the Philippines
Workers and volunteers pick up trash from the shore of the polluted Baseco Beach in Manila, Philippines.
(Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)
Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
A woman fishes from a boat while trash floats in the waters off Baseco Beach.
(Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)
