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International Day of the Tropics 2024 - June 29
June 29 , 2024
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- It celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the tropics while highlighting unique challenges and opportunities nations of the Tropics face.
- This date is to remember the first ‘State of the Tropics Report,’ started by Myanmar’s Nobel Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, in 2014.
- The Tropics are a region of the Earth, roughly defined as the area between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.
- The Tropics host nearly 95% of the world’s mangrove forests by area and 99% of mangrove species.
- The Tropics have just over half of the world’s renewable water resources (54%).
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