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[4] [5] An emerging branch of Citizen Science are Community Mapping projects that utilize smartphone and tablet technology. For example, TurtleSAT [6] is a community mapping project that is mapping freshwater turtle deaths throughout Australia. This list of citizen science projects involves projects that engage all age groups.
World Hippopotamus Day [15] February 15 International Polar Bear Day: February 27 World Wildlife Day: March 3 International Day of Action for Rivers: March 14 World Consumer Rights Day: March 15 Buzzards Day [16] [17] March 15 Digital Cleanup Day [18] March 15 2025 National Panda Day [19] [20] [21] March 16 Global Recycling Day [22] March 18 ...
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.
30 by 30 is the third of 23 global biodiversity targets for 2030 in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in December 2022: . Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of terrestrial, inland water, and of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and ...
The wildlife trade also causes issues for natural resources that people use in their everyday lives. Ecotourism is how some people bring in money to their homes, and with depleting the wildlife, this may be a factor in taking away jobs. [33] Illegal wildlife trade has also become normalized through various social media outlets.
The conference was originally scheduled to be held in October 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was rescheduled to be held in April 2022 in Kunming, China, [2] [3] [4] but was postponed again, for a fourth time due to China's zero-COVID policy, to the third quarter of 2022 according to the UN secretariat office on March 29. [5]
The origin of life from non-living chemistry and geology, or abiogenesis, is a major topic in astrobiology. Even though it is fundamentally an earth-bound concern, and therefore of great geobiological interest, getting at the origin of life necessitates considering what life requires, what, if anything, is special about Earth, what might have ...
Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs), are biodiversity conservation projects with rural development components. It is an approach that aspires to combine social development with conservation goals. [1] These projects look to deal with biodiversity conservation objectives through the use of socio-economic investment tools.