50th World Environment Day – in pictures

People collect reusable items at the Boragaon dump site in Guwahati, India

Schoolchildren visit an orchard on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on World Environment Day

An aerial view of the Adolpho Ducke forest reserve, part of the Amazon rainforest, and properties in the east of Manaus, Brazil

A man dressed in plastic waste walks down a street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

People collect plastic from a waste dump in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip

A worker prepares plastic for processing to extract fuel in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip

A woman collects aluminium cans on the Educandos creek in Manaus, Brazil

A nightjar before being released into the wild in Bogotá, Colombia

Schoolchildren play with an Earth balloon on World Environment Day in Firmat, Argentina

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Raoni Metuktire, a Brazilian Indigenous leader, during a ceremony to celebrate World Environment Day at the Planalto Palace in Brasília

Workers sort through a pile of tens of thousands of plastic household items at a recycling factory in Barishal, Bangladesh

A man bathes in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in Delhi, India

Activists dressed as oil executives take part in a protest in Cape Town, South Africa, to call for a permanent ban on oil exploration in Antarctica

A bird flies through smoke rising from paddy stubble burning at a farm in Dongri, a village on the outskirts of Mumbai, India

Saplings are planted in Lalitpur, Nepal, on World Environment Day