World Soil Day

The World Soil ( English World Soil Day ) is an international day of action on 5 December . He was appointed by the International Soil Science Union (IUSS) at its 17th World Congress in August 2002 in Bangkok . It is intended to set an annual mark for the importance of the natural resource soil and to promote soil protection .

The Soil of the Year is proclaimed every year on World Soil Day for the following year. Previous floors of the year were:

• 2005: black earth
• 2006: Pale Earth
• 2007: Podzol
• 2008: brown earth
• 2009: Kalkmarsch
• 2010: City floors
• 2011: Brown floodplain
• 2012: fen
• 2013: Plaggenesch
• 2014: vineyard soil
• 2015: Pseudogley
• 2016: groundwater floor
• 2017: Hortisol
• 2018: rock humus soil
• 2019: Kippenboden
• 2020: Watt

See also

• Global Soil Week

Web links

• World Soil Day website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2005 - Black Earth
2. ↑ 2006 - Pale Earth
3. ↑ 2007 - Podzol
4. ↑ 2008 - Brown Earth
5. ↑ 2009 - Kalkmarsch
6. ↑ 2010 - city floors
7. ↑ 2011 - Brauner Auenboden
8. ↑ 2012 - Niedermoor
9. ↑ 2013 - Plaggenesch
10. ↑ 2014 - vineyard soil
11. ↑ 2015 - Backwater bottom
12. ↑ 2016 - Groundwater bottom
13. ↑ Garden soil - soil of the year 2017
14. ↑ Felshumusboden: Soil of the year 2018
15. ^ Kuratorium Boden des Jahres: [1] , accessed on December 5, 2018
16. ↑ Ecologically valuable: Watt is “Soil of the Year” at ndr.de from December 4, 2019