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When is Wildlife Day celebrated in Our Country and the world in 2023
World Wildlife Day 2023 falls on March 3. The holiday is relatively young. It has been celebrated since 2013 and has a great goal – to regularly remind humanity how fragile our nature and its inhabitants are and what their destruction is fraught with.
history of the holiday
A person uses the resources of the planet without thinking about the harm it causes to everything that surrounds him. Some species of wild animals are sold on black markets, massive fishing leads to its extinction, deforestation deprives animals of shelter and food. Needless to say, predators are killed for fun? In such conditions, in just a few decades, most of the flora and fauna will be exterminated! In order to prevent the disappearance of all life on earth, many public organizations are conducting propaganda against the negligent attitude to this problem …
To give a person the opportunity to think about how defenseless our world is and how we can help it, the UN established a holiday – Wildlife Day. This day is timed to coincide with the adoption in 1973 of the Convention on the Illegal Trade in Critically Endangered Wild Animals. Every year, about 17 billion profits are earned from this, and in the meantime, for example, Amur tigers, snow leopards, polar bears, leopards, and certain species of valuable fish are on the verge of extinction. And if you do not focus on this problem now, then the population of many animals will simply be exterminated.
Holiday traditions
On Wildlife Day 2023 in Our Country, many people visit zoos, watching beautiful and rare animals, nature museums, botanical gardens, parks, enjoying the diversity of flora and fauna. In recent years, more and more often you can meet volunteers freeing beaches and forests from garbage. After all, it is the garbage thrown by negligent vacationers that is most destructive for animals, rivers and lakes, seas and oceans, as well as their inhabitants. International charitable forums are organized, raising important issues. Photographers hold photo exhibitions where you can see the work of professionals and amateurs.
Traditionally, film festivals dedicated to the protection of wildlife, individual animals or plants are held on this day. It would not be superfluous to arrange watching TV shows about wildlife, in which you can find out a lot of interesting information about various parts of nature.
Lectures and seminars are held in literary clubs, presentations of books about nature, on the pages of which the authors describe events related to the protection of all life on earth, draw the attention of the planet’s population to the social catastrophe that can arise from the thoughtless extermination of wildlife.
Interesting facts about wild animals
- The fastest bird in the world is the ostrich. It develops speed up to 70 km/h.
- There are about 70 species of spiders and 6 species of reptiles in the world, with new species being discovered every year.
- Tigers have stripes not only on their fur, but also on their skin, and their claws reach a length of up to 10 cm.
- The giraffe has the largest heart among animals living on land. And his tongue reaches 45 cm in length.
- Dolphins have names that are given to them at birth. This was proved by scientists when they recorded the whistle of a dolphin, to which the same dolphin always responded.
- Sharks are afraid of dolphins. With their noses, they attack the predator at high speed until it is completely destroyed. Therefore, sharks, seeing these mammals, flee.
- The wild animals that can go without drinking the longest are rats.
- Caterpillars have more muscles in their bodies than humans.
- Crocodiles swallow rocks to dive deeper into the water.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.
- Squirrels in the nest always have two exits. The second is needed in case of evacuation.
- No wonder there is a saying – “do not wake the sleeping bear.” After all, awakening during hibernation makes him especially dangerous, because he attacks everything that comes in his way.
- Sloths spend almost their entire lives in trees, descending no more than once a week.
- The bear loves to eat ants. He sticks his tongue into the anthill, waits for the ants to stick around it and retracts his tongue, swallowing them.
- Wolves reach speeds of up to 60 km / h, but they cannot keep this pace for a long time.