World Wildlife Day

This day is celebrated globally on 3rd March. World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora . The day is to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that their conservation provides to people. The Day reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts. Sustainable Development Goal 15 focuses on halting biodiversity loss. The theme of World Wildlife Day 2022 is “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”.

This aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 12, 13, 14 and 15, and their wide-ranging commitments on alleviating poverty, ensuring sustainable use of resources, and on conserving life land. Over 8,400 species of wild fauna and flora are critically endangered, while close to 30,000 more are understood to be endangered or vulnerable. Based on these estimates, it is suggested that over a million species are threatened with extinction.

In 2022, World Wildlife Day will therefore drive the debate towards the imperative need to reverse the fate of the most critically endangered species, to support the restoration of their habitats and ecosystems and to promote their sustainable use by humanity.

The World Hearing Day-

World Hearing Day is observed on 3rd March every year to raise awareness about how to prevent deafness and to promote hearing across the world. The World Hearing Day 2022 with the theme “To hear for life, listen with care” will focus on the importance and means of hearing loss prevention through safe listening. Many common causes of hearing loss can be prevented, including hearing loss caused by exposure to loud sounds​. ‘Safe listening’ can mitigate the risk of hearing loss associated with recreational sound exposure​. WHO calls to raise awareness for and implement evidence-based standards that promote safe listening