Wildlife Week Celebration 2019 in India under the theme of Life Below Water: For People And Planet
Every year wildlife week is celebrated in the month of October from October 1st to October 7th in India. The main motto behind celebration is to preserve the wildlife in India and make common people aware of it. Here I am telling you about the importance, theme, and activities of wildlife week 2019 that can be carried out in this week.
During this wildlife week celebration, the main focus remains on the development of healthy and favorable environment for the animals in order to preserve them. This campaign involves the planning to save animal's life and improving status of any species in India. Theme of the Wildlife Week 2019
This year's theme is "Life Below Water: For People And Planet". Wildlife week will be celebrated for full week from 1st October to the 7th October with this theme for preservation of underwater fauna and flora.Previous Years Themes of the Wildlife Week in India
Importance of Wildlife Week
This celebration was planned to make people aware towards the conservation of wildlife. The Indian Government has also established an Indian Board of Wildlife in the year 1952 which works to improve the responsiveness as well as the awareness of the public towards the wildlife protection. IBWL decided to celebrate this event every year in the month of October for whole week by organizing activities related to wildlife conservation and protection. Wildlife week was celebrated for first time in 1952 with a vision of conservation and protection animal's life and taking some crucial steps for the prevention from extinction of the species. The main motive of celebration of wildlife week is to raise awareness among general public about wildlife conservation and protection. So that every citizen becomes informed about wildlife in order to make awaken about wildlife protection in India.Objectives of Wildlife Week Celebration
Some main objectives of this week are given below:How to celebrate Wildlife Week?
Government of India already declared eco-sensitive zones of various forest areas such as Wildlife Sanctuaries, National Parks and Biosphere Reserves across the country to prohibit human activities and restrict activities up to a certain limit. The Government of India including Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and other departments, also organizes a variety of activities such as Poster competition for kids to make them aware of nature and wildlife conservation. During wildlife week, forest departments also conduct various activities such as bird watching at wetlands and plantation drive in various nearby villages and forest areas to aware people about the importance of flora and fauna and their protection. Several awareness programmes like conferences, symposiums, education training, workshops, lectures and public meeting etc. are held in various schools, colleges, universities, institutes and other government and non-government organization to run this campaign towards protection and conservation of wildlife. A number of students take part in this awareness campaign all over India. Schools, colleges and institutes organizes various activities like essay writing completion, debate competition, poster & painting competition, quiz, puzzle competition, movie screening related to wildlife and street play etc. to create awareness among students. It is also a responsibility of every citizen to conserve wildlife and plant trees in order to maintain an ecological balance. Hence, many people celebrate Wildlife Week to encourage other people to protect wildlife and conserve natural environment.What can people do to celebrate this wildlife week?
Everybody can celebrate this week by following some tips:
The author has given very useful and concise information about this event. Such functions and celebrations are a must for the students and the whole society to understand our ecology and environment in a practical way. Awareness and awakening is a must in the minds of people if we really want to conserve our habitat and make the planet a beautiful place to live. I think the Wildlife Week Celebration will go a long way in this regard.
This is a great opportunity for the schools, colleges, organisations and offices to organise a trip to some wildlife parks to find out the diversity of nature there and learn from it. Learning from nature is something which can be cherished for a lifetime. The modernisation has taken a toll on marine life and already done a lot of harm to it. It is time to learn about these things and fight for the betterment of our marine and terrestrial natural flora and fauna and preserve them at any cost.
I hope the people who undertake some activity during this great nature conservation program will understand our habitat in better ways and try in their humble ways for keeping it unaffected from polluting materials.