Dia Mundial da Vida Selvagem 2021
Hoje é o Dia Mundial da Vida Selvagem. Uma data celebrada pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) desde 2013, que relembra a assinatura da Convenção sobre o Comércio Internacional de Espécies Ameaçadas de Fauna e Flora Silvestres (CITES) em 1973.
Tema 2021:
“As Florestas e Meios de Subsistência: Sustentar as Pessoas e o Planeta”
O tema escolhido “As Florestas e Meios de Subsistência: Sustentar as Pessoas e o Planeta” procura enaltecer a importância das florestas e dos bosques enquanto ecossistemas e reservatórios de biodiversidade.
Dia Mundial da Vida Selvagem 2021
Várias organizações decidiram comemorar este dia com diferentes actividades de sensibilização.
Em Portugal, a Explore Iberia/ Vida Selvagem no Alto Minho, irá realizar uma sessão online às 21 horas, intitulada "Conversas do Trilho – Vida Selvagem do Alto Minho", onde serão partilhados conhecimentos acerca da vida selvagem nesta região com dois profissionais da Associação de Conservação do Habitat do Lobo Ibérico (ACHLI).
Esta participação está incluida nos eventos 2021 do site oficial, representando Portugal.
Por sua vez, a União Internacional para Conservação da Natureza (IUCN) quis assinalar o dia relembrando a importância dos animais selvagens e alertando para o elevado declínio das suas populações nas últimas décadas.
credits: WWF
A organização lançou a campanha #WorldWithoutNature e retirou o panda do seu logótipo, mostrando “como seria o mundo sem animais”.
WWF, a organização não governamental ambientalista que actua a nível mundial, assinala o dia, removendo o panda do seu logótipo.
“Pela primeira vez em 60 anos de actuação pela natureza, retiramos o panda do nosso logótipo”, (...) “O nosso panda icónico é um dos símbolos mais reconhecidos do movimento de conservação, e retirá-lo é um movimento simbólico que fizemos para assinalar o Dia Internacional da Vida Selvagem”,
Felicity Glennie Holmes,
Objectivo WWF:
O objectivo é “mostrar como seria o mundo sem a natureza”, já que “em menos de 50 anos as actividades humanas resultam numa queda de 68% das populações da vida selvagem”,
Mais de 40 marcas comprometeram-se a juntar ao movimento, entre elas o clube AS Roma, e as marcas Dove e Jordan Cereals.
World Wildlife Day 2021
World Wildlife Day is celebrated in 2021 under the theme "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet", as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent areas. This aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals 1, 12, 13 and 15, and their wide-ranging commitments on alleviating poverty, ensuring sustainable use of resources, and on conserving life land.
Between 200 and 350 million people live within or adjacent to forested areas around the world, relying on the various ecosystem services provided by forest and forest species for their livelihoods and to cover their most basic needs, including food, shelter, energy and medicines.
World Wildlife Day 2021
Theme 2021:
"Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet"
Roughly 28% of the world’s land surface is currently managed by indigenous peoples, including some of the most ecologically intact forests on the planet. These spaces are not only central to their economic and personal well-being, but also to their cultural identities.
Forests, forests species and the livelihoods that depend on them currently find themselves at the crossroads of the multiple planetary crises we currently face, from climate change, to biodiversity loss and the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This day will celebrate forest-based livelihoods and seek to promote forest and forest wildlife management practices that accommodate both human well-being and the long-term conservation of forests and promote the value of traditional practices that contribute to establishing a more sustainable relationship with these crucial natural systems.
The incalculable value of wildlife
World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that their conservation provides to people.
- Resources: Quiz
At the same time, 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. Given these various negative effects, Sustainable Development Goal 15 focuses on halting biodiversity loss.
In celebration of World Wildlife Day (WWD) 2021, celebrated each year on March 3rd, IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, was hosting its third annual global art contest in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the theme of ‘Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet.
- Winner : #WWLD2021 #artcontest : The 3rd Annual Global Contest !
"Let us remind ourselves of our duty to preserve and sustainably use the vast variety of life on the planet. Let us push for a more caring, thoughtful and sustainable relationship with nature."
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General UN
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03.03.2021
update: 04.03.2021
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