September 4th is National Wildlife Day every year to raise people’s awareness of forest inhabiting plants and animal species.
This day was founded in 2005 by the animal behaviorist and philanthropist Colleen Paige. According to the official website.
Main Purpose This day is to educate people on the need to protect and rescue endangered animals in the United States and around the world.
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Here are some quotes, courtesy Good reading, celebrate wild animals:
1. “Study nature, love nature, get close to nature. It will never let you down.”-Frank Lloyd Wright
2. “The hope for the future lies not in containing the impact of human settlement — it is too late — but in a better understanding of the extent of this impact and the new ethics of its governance.” —Aldo Leigh Opod
3. “The more clearly we can focus on the wonders and reality of the universe around us, the less we have a taste for destruction.”-Rachel Carson
In June, the Chinese government removed pangolin scales from the official list of ingredients approved for use in drugs as part of an effort to stop the world’s most smuggled wild mammal trade. In 2019, at least 400,000 pangolins were killed because of their scales and flesh.
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4. “We need to understand ourselves as beings that merge with the diversity of all life. When we truly see this kind of unity and interdependence, we will find that nature is tolerant, generous and resilient.” – Kenneth Subel
5. “Our task must be to free ourselves by expanding our compassion to embrace all living things and the whole nature and its beauty.”-Albert Einstein
Snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan.
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6. “If a man spends less time proving that he can outwit nature, and spends more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her qualifications, I will feel more optimistic about a man’s bright future.”-Irvin Brooks ·White
7. “If we can teach people about wild animals, they will be touched. Share my wild animals with me. Because humans want to save what they love.” – Steve Irwin
Sultan Dindel National Park is sandwiched between the vast grasslands of the Sahel and the forests of the Ethiopian highlands. It has a variety of habitats, making it a haven for wildlife.
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8. “If you can reach out to touch, love, and be with wild animals, you will change forever, and you will want to make the world a better place.”-Terri Owen
9. “Only in humility and awe in front of the world can our species stay in it.”-Wendell Berry
10. “Compared to many people in this world, wild animals are less wild and more humane.”-Munya Khan
Threatened: Hundreds of elephants will go home in the largest wildlife transfer in Zimbabwe’s history
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