At its sixty-eighth session, the United Nations General Assembly decided to proclaim 3rd March as ‘UN World Wildlife Day’ to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. This was on the 20th of December 2013, the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Six decades before the UN initiative, the Government of India had realised the importance of preserving wildlife and established an Indian Board of Wild Life (IBWL) in 1952. Since then a week from October 2nd to8th, during Gandhi Jayanthi, every year continues this in order to arouse a general awakening in the common man in favour of protection of wildlife.
The Gandhian Legacy
Mahatma Gandhi considered the earth a living organism. His ideas were expressed in terms of two fundamental laws: Cosmic law and the Law of Species. Cosmic Law views the entire....
