World Wildlife Day

World Wildlife Day is celebrated on March 3 every year. The objective of Wildlife Day is to celebrate the natural flora and fauna. World Wildlife Day Date was adopted by the UNGA (United Nations General Assembly) during its 68th session on 20th December 2013. Under the resolution of UN 68/205, it was announced that 3rd March, which was adopted as the International Wildlife Day, to raise awareness and consciousness of fauna and flora.

The next Wildlife Day will be celebrated on 3rd March 2022, which is a Thursday to carry forward this awareness among people. Now, we will discuss more on World Wildlife Day along with the World Wild Animal Day and the World Migratory Bird Day as well.

World Wildlife Day: UNGA Resolution

• In its decision on the 68th session, the UNGA reiterated the core value of wildlife and its several major contributions, like the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational, and ravishing, to sustainable development and well-being of humans (in regard to meeting one’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own requirements).

• The General Assembly looked into the consequence of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, scheduled in Bangkok from 3 to 14 March 2013, in a specific Resolution titled Conf. 16.1 officially declared 3 March as World Wildlife Day to commemorate, celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild flora and fauna and acknowledged the significant role of CITES in corroborating that international trade does not threaten the livelihood of species.

• The General Assembly asked the CITES Secretariat, in collaboration with pertinent organizations of the UN system, to smoothen the execution of World Wildlife Day.

Below are the year-wise themes of World Wildlife Day:

Wildlife Day: Themes From 2015-2021

What is the Logo of World Wildlife Day?

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About: The UN Wildlife Day: The Aim Of Wildlife Day 2021

World Wildlife Day will be commended in 2021 under the topic "Forests and Livelihoods: sustaining people and planet", as an approach to feature the focal job of woodlands, timberland species, and biological systems benefits in supporting the occupations of a huge number of individuals universally, and especially of Indigenous and nearby networks with noteworthy connections to forested and backwoods neighboring regions. This lines up with UN Sustainable Development Goals 1, 12, 13, and 15, and their wide-running responsibilities to easing neediness, guaranteeing practical utilization of assets, and saving life land. 

• Somewhere in the range of 200 and 350 million individuals live inside or nearby forested regions all throughout the planet, depending on the different biological system administrations given by forests and woodland species for their vocations and to cover their most fundamental necessities, including nutrition, shelter, energy, and medicines. 

• Indigenous people and the nearby groups are at the front line of the harmonious connection among people and backwoods, woodland abiding untamed life species, and the environmental benefits they give. Generally, 28% of the world's territory surface is as of now oversaw by native people groups, remembering probably the most biologically unblemished woodlands for the planet. These spaces are not just integral to their monetary and individual prosperity, yet in addition to their social personalities. 

• Forests, forests species, and the livelihoods that rely upon them right now end up at the junction of the different planetary emergencies we as of now face, from environmental change to biodiversity misfortune and the wellbeing, social and financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• March 3, 2021, will be observed as World Wildlife Day. On this day, we will celebrate forest-based livelihoods and try to advance forest and forest wildlife management models and exercises that oblige both human prosperity and the long-term conservation of forests, abiding the types of wild fauna and flora, and the environments they support and promote the worth of conventional practices and knowledge that add to building up a more feasible relationship with these crucial natural systems.

World Wild Animal Day 2021: Celebration And Significance

The World Wild Animal Day and the World Migratory Bird Day (or the migratory bird day) will be celebrated on 3rd March 2022. 

The Global virtual of World Wildlife Day 2021 celebration was entirely virtual and aimed to bring together representatives of UN Member States, UN organizations (UNO) System, civil society, and multilateral environmental agreements, and the private sector for discussing the theme of Wild Day 2021, i.e., "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet".

International Wildlife Day is an opportunity for the world to celebrate various beautiful forms of fauna and flora and to make people wary of the various challenges faced by the species. The day also alerts us of the pressing requirement to initiate the fight against wildlife crime that is wide-ranging across the economic, environmental, and social impacts.

Fun Facts On World Wildlife Day

• In the year 2002, the Hawaiian crow was declared extinct in the wild, but a plan was discussed to dense the area last year (in 2016) with birds bred in captivity. 

• As per the contentious on World Wildlife Fund, the last year’s report stated that the global wildlife population has declined by 58 percent in the last 40 years. 

• Martha was the world’s last passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. 

• In 2020, the Government of India initiated various projects including Vulture Conservation and India Rhino Vision (IRV).

• UNDP Sea Turtle Project: UNDP stands for United Nations Development Programme was started in  November 1999 by Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun with a motive to conserve the Olive Ridley Turtles. This project centers on the top 10 coastal states in India principally Odisha where a map of breeding sites of Sea Turtles was prepared. Breeding places and habitats along the coastline were recognized and migratory routes were taken by Sea Turtles.