• World Wildlife Day is celebrated on 3 March, every year. It’s a global celebration
of wildlife and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
• It provides an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of
wild fauna and flora, and consider and reflect on the benefits that wildlife
provides to people.
• It highlights the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime, which
has wide-ranging economic, environmental, and social impacts.
• On December 20, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
proclaimed March 3, as World Wildlife Day at its 68th session to celebrate the
wildlife across the world.
• On March 3, 2014, World Wildlife Day was celebrated for the time.
• The aim was to raise awareness about the dangers that human activities and
climate change in turn are posing on the wildlife globally.
• This day was chosen to celebrate World Wildlife Day because on 3rd March 1973
a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora (CITES) was held.
• At this time hundreds of endangered species were being threatened every year,
and extinction was at a staggeringly high rate. CITES was put into place to ensure
that the world did not continue to hemorrhage species that would never be seen
again.
• The theme 2021 is “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet”.
• The day will be marked to highlight the central role of forests, forest species, and
ecosystem services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people
globally.
• It will particularly focus on Indigenous and local communities with historic ties
to forested and forest-adjacent areas.
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