Scenes from Earth Day 2013 around the world

Indian activists from The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posed wearing green body paint holding placards during a demonstration in Hyderabad, India on World Earth Day. PETA exhorts the world to switch to an earth-friendly vegan diet on the occasion of Earth Day, celbrated around the world.

Indonesian demonstrators carried an effigy of the earth as they paraded in a rally in Surabaya in Indonesia’s eastern Java island.

Amy Laura Hall hoola-hooped holding her parasol, during an Earth Day Festival in Durham Central Park, Durham N.C.

Sophia Holste, 9, displayed her butterfly face painting during the Durham Earth Day festival.

An endangered six-month old male baby orangutan rescued from a pet owner learned to climb a tree while undergoing rehabilitation at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program quarantine area in Sibolangit village located in Indonesia’s Sumatra island. According to environmentalists poachers kill or maim the mother orangutan to take her baby. Experts believe there are about 50,000 to 60,000 of the two species of orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.They are faced with extinction from poaching and the rapid destruction of their forest habitat, mainly to create palm oil plantations.

A young Indian carried bags filled with reusable materials as a backhoe pushed garbage at a dump yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India.

Spray paint artist Martin Martinez from Dallas, dried a coat of paint while giving a demonstration of his craft during the University of Memphis Earth Day Event. In addition to food, educational demonstrations, and music, students released some 150 butterflies in the garden to honor the holiday.

U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Michele J. Sison, carried a plastic bag with garbage as she cleaned the sea promenade to mark the world Earth Day.

Indian Hindu devotees, reflected in the water, crossed the polluted Ganges River at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati River, in Allahabad, India.

A South Korean boy ran away from a fountain during an environmental campaign.

Environmentalists and artists from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, wore costumes and gathered on a sea wall as they took part in the “Save Manila Bay” event during Earth Day celebrations.

Tulia Temple, 5, of Glendale, Calif., reacted to her face paint at the Earth Day Celebration at The Americana at Brand.

An Indian ragpicker walks among heaps of rubbish at a municipal waste dump in Dimapur.

Bsam Ali, 11, swims in polluted water at a slum area on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.

An Indian youth dressed as a tree looks on during an awareness event commemorating Earth Day in Allahabad.

A dog looks on amid trash as polluted waters flow down a canal on the outskirts of Ahmedabad during World Earth Day.

A Yemeni boy washes his blanket in polluted water, at a slum area on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.

An Afghan child carries water from a well in Kabul during World Earth Day.

Commuters stand in a train car as it runs past heaps of garbage in Mumbai, India.