World Animal Day

4th October


The World Animal Day is celebrated every year on the 4th October, also known as the feast of Francis of Assisi, the Patron Saint of animals and ecology. It is important to stress that the world’s biodiversity is facing threats from all angles, this is why it is necessary to raise more awareness about the loss of biodiversity and act to protect endangered species. Moreover wilderness areas, and natural habitats are vanishing and fauna and flora species are facing extinction like never before.

The World Animal Day was conceived on the 24th March 1925 at the Sports Palace in Berlin, Germany by the cynologist Heinrich Zimmermann. The event was first celebrated on the 4th October 1929. Initially it was only followed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, but each year Zimmermann worked to promote the Day and finally, in May 1931, at an International Congress for Animal Protection held in Florence, his proposal to make World Animal Day universal on 4th October was unanimously accepted and adopted as a resolution.

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More awareness about the health
of our planet is necessary
to preserve our future generations.

We only have one home.
We would do well to look after it.