{"id":60179,"date":"2026-04-22T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/?p=60179"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:54:53","slug":"international-mother-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/united-nations-world-days\/international-mother-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"bottommargin\">When Mother Earth sends us a message<\/h2>\n<p>Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, have affected millions of people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\">Climate change<\/a>, man-made changes to nature as well as crimes that disrupt biodiversity, such as deforestation, land-use change, intensified agriculture and livestock production or the growing illegal wildlife trade, can accelerate the speed of destruction of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>That is why we need to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decadeonrestoration.org\/\">recover our ecosystems<\/a>. Ecosystems support all life on Earth. The healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier the planet &#8211; and its people. Restoring our damaged ecosystems will help to end poverty, combat climate change and prevent mass extinction. But we will only succeed if everyone plays a part.<\/p>\n<p>For this International Mother Earth Day, let&#8217;s remind ourselves &#8211; more than ever &#8211; that we need a shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet. Let\u2019s promote harmony with nature and the Earth. Join the global movement to restore our world!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/earth-day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mother Earth sends us a message Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, have affected millions of people. Climate change, man-made changes to nature as well as crimes that disrupt biodiversity, such as deforestation, land-use change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[261],"class_list":["post-60179","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations-world-days"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60180,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60179\/revisions\/60180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnhm.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}