World Wildlife Day being marked today

Kathmandu, March 3: The World Wildlife Day (WWD) is being marked today. The theme of the WWD 2025 is "Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People and Planet."   

  
WWD is celebrated every year on 3 March to celebrate wild animals and plants and to recognize the unique roles and contributions of wildlife to people and the planet.  

  
The United Nations 68th General Assembly on 20 December 2013 declared March 3 every year as the World Wildlife Day to sensitize people about the endangered wild fauna and flora.    

It was on this day in 1973 that the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife and Flora (CITES) was ratified.    

The 16th United Nations Conference on Climate Change and the Conference of Parties and the conference of state parties to CITES held in Bangkok from March 3 to 14 of the same year approved the proposal of Thailand to celebrate the Wildlife Day and requested the UN General Assembly for its approval.  

  
According to the UN, the CITES Secretariat has been facilitating the implementation of world wildlife conservation projects in collaboration with UN agencies related to wildlife and flora as well as other organizations.    

CITES has 183 members. With more than one million wildlife and plant species at risk of extinction, huge funds are needed for wildlife conservation.    

This 2025 the theme of the international day, “Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People and Planet”, explores how we can work together to make our current – an insufficient - financial flows more effective and sustainable to build a resilient future for both people and the planet    

With over 1 million species estimated to be threatened with extinction, and facing the intensifying triple planetary crisis, innovative finance for wildlife conservation is more urgent than ever, according to the UN.   RSS