A day to care for: 'World Environment Day'

An egret sits with its babies on a tree along the River Brahmaputra on the eve of World Environment Day in Gauhati, India. World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 by the United Nations to stimulate global awareness on environmental issues.

A boy guides a raft through a polluted canal littered with plastic bags and other garbage on World Environment Day in Mumbai.

An egret feeds its young on a tree along the River Brahmaputra on the eve of World Environment Day in Gauhati.

An Indian man returns after relieving himself near a polluted canal littered with plastic bags and other garbage, on World Environment Day in Mumbai.

An egret preens itself as it stands on a branch along the River Brahmaputra on the eve of World Environment Day in Gauhati.

A woman carries recyclable materials on her head as an Adjutant stork, an endangered species in the world, flies by at a garbage dump, on World Environment Day in Gauhati.

An egret takes off on the eve of World Environment Day.

An Indian rag picker carries recyclable material from a garbage dump, on World Environment Day, on the outskirts of Jammu.

An Indian laborer breaks stones at a stone quarry on World Environment Day on the outskirts of Gauhati.

Adjutant storks, an endangered species, sit on garbage at a dump on World Environment Day on the outskirts of Gauhati