World Bamboo Day

👉🏻World Bamboo Day is observed every year on 18 September.

👉🏻The theme of World Bamboo Day 2023 is ‘Bamboo today, tomorrow and day after’.

👉🏻This day is celebrated to spread awareness about the benefits of bamboo and promote its use in everyday products.

👉🏻At the 8th World Bamboo Congress held in Bangkok (Thailand) in 2009, the World Bamboo Organization officially declared 18 September as World Bamboo Day (WBD).

👉🏻World Bamboo Organization was established in the year 2005.

👉🏻Its headquarters is in Antwerp (Belgium).

👉🏻The World Bamboo Organization aims to promote bamboo cultivation for new industries in regions around the world to ensure its sustainable use to protect natural resources and the environment, as well as to promote traditional uses locally for community economic development.