World Wildlife Day 2022
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Date(s) - 03/03/2022
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World Wildlife Day will be celebrated in 2022 under the theme “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”, as a way to draw attention to the conservation status of some of the most critically endangered species of wild fauna and flora, and to drive discussions towards imagining and implementing solutions to conserve them.
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.
Official website of UN World Wildlife Day is at https://www.wildlifeday.org/
At 13:00 UK time the World Wildlife Day celebration will be live streaming on https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldWildlifeDay2022/live. Add this event to your calendar by registering here! (registration is not required to attend)
Video introducing World Wildlife Day 2022 – Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration