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#1274682021-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2021
World Wildlife Day takes place each year on March 3 and focuses global attention on the protection of biodiversity and wildlife. Hashtags: #WorldWildlifeDay, #DíaDeLaVidaSilvestre
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#1274672021-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2021: 5 organisations in India for the conservation of the voiceless
On December 20, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided that March 3 would be celebrated as World Wildlife Day. March 3 was chosen as World Wildlife Day as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was signed on the same day in 1973.
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#1274662021-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2021: India seeing steady rise in animal population, tweets PM Modi
The theme of World Wildlife Day 2021 — Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet — is set in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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#1274692021-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2021: Sudarsan Pattnaik shares breathtaking sand art creation!
International Sand Artist and Padma Shri Awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik created a beautiful sand art at the Puri beach in Odisha to raise awareness about the day.
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#1274652021-03-02
World Wildlife Day 2021: Theme and significance of day observed to create awareness about flora and fauna
The theme for World Wildlife Day 2021 aligns with some specific UN Sustainable Development Goals that aim to conserve life and eradicate poverty
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#1336252022-03-02
World Wildlife Day 2022: Date, Theme, History And Significance Of The Day That Celebrates Diversity Of Life On The Planet
The innumerable forms of animals and plants that live in the wild have an incalculable value as they play a major role in ecological, cultural, scientific, social, and aesthetic aspects of human well-being. World Wildlife Day is an annual observance that is celebrated on March 3 every year to pr ...
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#1336262022-03-02
World Wildlife Day celebrated in Kenya
Two lions are seen at the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Aug. 30, 2021. The World Wildlife Day, which is marked annually on March 3 to raise the awareness on the world's wild animals and plants, is celebrated under the theme "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration" this year.
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#1274722021-03-03
World Wildlife Day: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Mark Return with Never-Before-Seen Images!
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are back once again to make everyone laugh through hilarious photos of wonderful creatures, and spread the word about wildlife conservation in the process.
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#1274752021-03-03
World Wildlife Day: First-ever fishing cat survey on fishing cats of the Chilika starts
The first-ever survey of the elusive fishing cat in and around Asia’s biggest brackish water lagoon, the Chilika lake in Odisha, started March 1, 2021, officials said.
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#1244742020-03-03
World Wildlife Day: UN chief urges ‘more caring’ relationship with nature
People everywhere need to remember that we depend on Mother Earth to survive, the UN chief said in his message for World Wildlife Day marked on Tuesday, advocating for “a more caring, thoughtful and sustainable relationship with nature”.
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#1244772020-03-03
World Wildlife Day: Why lion cubs should not be part of the ‘petting zoo’
This is a question I have asked myself many times. Petting a predator is incongruous and unnatural, so why this obsession with petting wild animals in captivity? Why do we believe it is acceptable to put our own needs well above the animal’s requirements? Is it for that “like”-boosting selfie on ...
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#1310712021-10-22
World's first astrobiofuturist to speak at Metro Vancouver's Zero Waste conference
The world’s first astrobiofuturist is taking aim at a unique feature of humans — their creation of garbage. Billy Almon , an American biologist, architect, futurist, storyteller, former creative director at Walt Disney and host of Discovery’s Animal Planet, is one of the speakers at Metro Vancou ...
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#1240752020-02-03
Young, enthusiastic volunteers begin greening Bangalore University Campus
The exercise was part of the Hero TOI Green Drive which added 20,000 saplings of different varieties on Sunday alone. Over the next seven days, more will be planted to make the campus richer by 100,000 trees. In the coming years, the area will be transformed into a forest of sorts.
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#1252382020-04-22
Zakri made ambassador of Campaign For Nature
Academy of Sciences Malaysia senior fellow Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Dr Zakri Abdul Hamid has been appointed ambassador and science adviser to the global Campaign for Nature, a partnership between the Wyss Campaign for Nature and the National Geographic Society.
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#1234502019-12-13
Zimbabwe: First Lady Leads Walkathon, Tree Planting
The country's environment ambassador, First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, yesterday joined Zanu-PF youths in tree planting and a walkathon event from Danhiko in Msasa to Goromonzi High School, the venue of this year's 18th Annual National People's Conference.
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#1286802021-05-17
[Commentary] Reinforcing open access to biodiversity data in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas
We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment highlighted irreversible loss in the diversity of life on earth 16 years ago. The 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report warned that around 1 mil ...
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#1289172021-05-31
‘A kind of rat with thorns’: the comic book busting myths about the Madras hedgehog
The brightly coloured panels of Brawin Kumar’s comic book tell the story of how two children rescue a hedgehog from an unlicensed medicine man. The mother hedgehog is delighted to be reunited with her little one, as she has lost most of her offspring to road traffic.
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#1274342021-03-01
‘Bridging that gap between scientists and ordinary folks’: How storytelling combats anti-GMO advocacy
Many Africans still don’t understand scientists, or what they do. Scientists are widely seen as aloof and detached — a misperception has negatively impacted societal attitudes toward scientific innovations on the continent.
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#1325812022-01-18
‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions
According to communications consultant Meindert Brouwer, author of Central African Forests Forever, there are still opportunities to save the Central African — or Congo Basin — rainforest.
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#1272402021-02-22
‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini
As the world works to emerge from the devastation and hardship brought by the pandemic, there has been much talk about the recovery being an opportunity to drive transformative change toward a more sustainable, equitable society that recognizes that human well-being is underpinned by a healthy p ...
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#1327472022-01-25
‘Evolve’ host Patrick Aryee talks squid glue, biomimicry and environmental ethics
By 2050, it is thought that two-thirds of the world’s population might be facing a scarcity of fresh, potable water. That’s a crisis that extends beyond the poorest, developing countries, but it is also one that “speaks to our ethics and what our responsibilities are to each other,” says Patrick ...
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#1290012021-06-02
‘One With Nature’ webinar on Friday to discuss role of children in tackling climate change
TEDxPune, an independent organization with a license from TED, in association with UNICEF Maharashtra, a worldwide humanitarian aid organization, will be hosting a webinar titled ‘One With Nature’ this Friday June 4, 2021.
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#1244762020-03-03
‘We all share the same roof’: On World Wildlife Day, this video promotes biodiversity conservation
‘We might think we have fully bent nature to our needs. But, we entirely depend on the biosphere’s resources to meet the needs of over seven billion people.’
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#1340982022-04-18
‘We’re running out of time’: Dan Saladino on why the loss of diversity in our foods matters
Dan Saladino is a journalist and presenter of the weekly Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 where he’s been reporting on food and agriculture for the past 15 years.
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#1251962020-04-21
“Earth Day” webinars on biodiversity and the Green-Blue economy take place this week
IN CELEBRATION of Earth Day 2020, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) in collaboration with the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) will host two webinars. The first webinar titled “The OECS Biodiversity and Ecosystems framework and Strategic Action Plan” will be held ...
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#1276832021-03-15
“Protect our planet, our future, our lives”: Prince Albert II celebrates his 63rd birthday
As Monaco’s Sovereign Prince celebrated his 63rd birthday over the weekend, Monaco Tribune has taken a look back at some of his achievements and environmental activism. A father of two, passionate about sports and committed to protecting our oceans, Prince Albert II has made the Principality a g ...
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#1230682019-11-19
“Sustaining all life on Earth” announced as theme of World Wildlife Day 2020
The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) announced today the theme of United Nations World Wildlife Day 2020: “Sustaining all life on Earth”.
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#1240232020-01-29
“Wetlands and Biodiversity” is the theme for World Wetlands Day 2020
World Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The 2020 theme for World Wetlands Day is an opportunity to highlight wetland biodiversity, its status, why it matters and to promote ...