World Wildlife Day is observed on 3 March to raise awareness about the world's wild animals and plants. On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in its resolution UN 68/205, decided to proclaim 3 March, the international day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on the planet raise awareness and benefits fauna and flora in 1973, as World Wildlife Day.
World Wildlife Day 2022 Theme:
This year, the theme is "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration". In 2021, the theme was “Forests and Livelihoods: sustaining people and planet". Every year a new theme is selected to raise awareness about the importance of this day.
Top 5 wildlife sanctuaries in India
1. Jim Corbett National Park is a national park in India located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state. The first national park in India, was established in 1936 during the British Raj and named Hailey National Park after William Malcolm Hailey, a governor of the United Provinces in which it was then located. It houses around 110 tree species, 50 species of mammals, 580 bird species and 25 reptile species. An ecotourism destination, the park contains 488 different species of plants and a diverse variety of fauna.
2. Ranthambore National Park is a national park in Rajasthan, India. The sanctuary is home to a wide variety of trees, plants, birds and reptiles, as well as one of the largest banyan trees in India. It hosts deciduous forests and wildlife such as Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, Indian elephant, wild water buffalo, Gaur, nilgai, Barasingha, Blackbuck, Chinkara, Chousingha, wild boar and many other wild animals.
3. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site. Kaziranga is home to the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world and was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006. The park is home to large breeding populations of elephants, wild water buffalo, and swamp deer.
4. Sundarbans National Park is a national park, tiger reserve and biosphere reserve in West Bengal, India. It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta and adjacent to the Sundarban Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. The delta is densely covered by mangrove forests and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger. It is also home to a variety of bird, reptile and invertebrate species, including the salt-water crocodile.
5. Periyar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area located in the districts of Idukki and Pathanamthitta in Kerala, India. It is notable as an elephant reserve and a tiger reserve. The park is a repository of rare, endemic, and endangered flora and fauna and forms the major watershed of two important rivers of Kerala: the Periyar and the Pamba. It was founded as Nellikkampatty Reserve. It lies in the middle of a mountainous area of the Cardamom Hills.
