World Wildlife Day: All you need to know

World Wildlife Day is observed every year on March 3 to raise awareness of issues that affect the world’s wild animals and plants. The day is celebrated annually to discuss the threats the plants and animals face on this date and the need for governments, society, organisations, and other people to be aware and raise their voices, take actions to help conserve wildlife, and to ensure the continued use of it would be sustainable. 

Wildlife plays an important role in balancing the environment. However, with rapidly increasing urbanisation, poaching, pollution, deforestation are contributing to the destruction of the wildlife and their habitat.

World Wildlife Day 2021: Quotes to create awareness

The day raises around these issues and also about how people can contribute to conserving wildlife and the urgent need to take a step ahead to fight against wildlife crime that has many economic, environmental and social impacts.

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The theme of World Wildlife Day 2021 is “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet,” as this year, people are celebrating varied forms of fauna and flora, and raising awareness about the different challenges faced by the wildlife. 

The World Wildlife Day was decided to be observed on March 3 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at its 68th session on December 20, 2013. Since then, March 3 is observed as the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) or, the Wildlife Day.