The 5 de junio de 2011, se celebrará el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, para conmemorar esta importante fecha, the Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira and the Colombia Corporation in Facts, They have programmed a series of activities that create a friendly awareness of the environment in the community..

The commemoration will begin on 4 June from the 7:00 a.m. in Palomino, with the release of 30 turtles, that have been monitored at the Sea Turtle Education and Research Center. The event will be attended by officials of the Corporation, who will give a complete talk about the danger of extinction that this species is going through. The animals will be released by a group of young people from that town, who work hand in hand with Corpoguajira on issues related to the conservation of biodiversity and by members of the Casa Taller de Palomino community project.

on sunday 5 de junio, A similar day will be held on the beaches of Camarones, which will be attended by students from the Luis Antonio Robles school, the environmental group Los Higuitos and members of the Pink Flamingos Fauna and Flora Sanctuary; who will carry out different artistic and cultural activities.

“These types of dates become an ideal setting to reflect on our environmental habits and the contribution that each of us is making to the conservation of the planet”, Manifesto Arcesio Romero Perez, General Manager Corpoguajira.

For its part, the Corpoguajira Environmental Education Area, will hold different talks with students from various Educational Institutions in Riohacha, on climate change and soils in La Guajira, Likewise, it will support an environmental walk coordinated by the El Carmen Ecological School., which will run through the main streets of the peninsula, on Monday 6 de junio, from the 4:00 pm. Additionally, the Corporation will deliver several AgroEcologito educational collections, in schools in the rural area of ​​Riohacha.

From 1972 and within the framework of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, The United Nations institutionalized the 5 June as International Environment Day. From there, In more than one hundred countries, this day has been celebrated as a sign that is directly associated with national responsibility., regional and global regarding the care and protection of natural resources.