Animals, wildlife, habitats, conservation, environmental awareness and nature-focused observances.
Pet Tech’s official CPR Day page and current class listings show CPR Day / Pet CPR & First Aid as organizer-set training categories offered on multiple dates and locations, not one universa…
The Animal Medical Center repeatedly lists Respect Your Cat Day on March 28 across annual pet-holiday calendars.
Florida Statutes designate the third Saturday in March of each year as Save the Florida Panther Day; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also promoted the 21 March 2026 observance.
SAVE THE FROGS! states that Save The Frogs Day takes place on April 28 every year and documents the 18th annual event on April 28, 2026.
The Australian Koala Foundation lists Save the Koala Day as the last Friday in September and identifies September 25 for the 2026 observance.
Action for Earth states that it founded Scottish Wildcat Day in 2016 and celebrates it every August 8; Royal Dornoch independently marked August 8 as Scottish Wildcat Day while supporting t…
The U.S. Naval Observatory calculates the September equinox as an astronomical instant: 23 September 2026 at 00:05 UT and 23 September 2027 at 06:02 UT. The Northern Hemisphere calls this t…
U.S. Naval Observatory season data define the equinox as the astronomical season boundary and provide target-year instants. The local civil date can differ by time zone and hemisphere conte…
The Animal Medical Center repeatedly lists Spoil Your Dog Day on August 10 across annual pet-awareness calendars.
Pet Sitters International says it created Take Your Cat To Work Day and its 2026 calendar places it on Monday, June 22, opening Take Your Pet To Work Week, which ends with Take Your Dog To…
Wellcat’s creator biography explicitly names Take Your Houseplants For A Walk Day among Tom Roy’s created holidays and the Wellcat calendar lists July 27; Community College of Denver indepe…
A creator-attributed National Day Archives record identifies MYOS Canine Muscle Formula as creating the observance in October 2020; Animal Medical Center calendars independently list Novemb…
The National Dog Show states that its Saturday show is taped for nationwide NBC telecast on Thanksgiving Day; its 2026 event schedule is November 14–15.
Common Ground states that Tree Dressing Day falls on the first weekend of December and was initiated by the organization in 1990.
Animal Medical Center calendars repeatedly list Ugliest Dog Day on June 20; the separately scheduled Sonoma-Marin Fair World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is not treated as the same observance or o…
Houston Zoo states that Whooping Crane Day takes place on May 28 each year, and the International Crane Foundation promoted the same May 28 observance in 2026; reviewed primary conservation…
Wild Koala Day first-party material fixes the observance on May 3, documents its beginning in 2016 through a network of koala conservation groups, and continues to organize current annual p…
World Animal Day first-party material fixes the observance on October 4, attributes the idea to Heinrich Zimmermann, documents the first celebration on 24 March 1925 and the later move to O…
Shelter Animal Reiki Association states that World Animal Reiki Day was created by Kathleen Prasad, is organized by SARA volunteer members, and is observed on February 5 in honor of the bir…
World Bamboo Organization first-party pages verify September 18, state that WBO created World Bamboo Day in 2009, place the first celebration at the 8th World Bamboo Congress in Bangkok, an…
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Friends of Bonobos documents Ashley Stone/The Bonobo Project as the origin force behind World Bonobo Day, the 2021 merger into Friends of Bonobos, February 14 recurrence and continuing camp…
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International Coconut Community material states that 2 September is World Coconut Day and commemorates the 1969 establishment of the ICC, formerly APCC; public-institution material document…
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Curlew Action verifies April 21, Mary Colwell’s origin role, explicit date rationale and continuing annual stewardship; because first-party pages use 2017 founding language and 2018 “got go…
The campaign’s official history identifies 24 April and traces the observance to 1979; NAVS also marks the date in current advocacy material.
FARM’s organizational history says World Farm Animals Day began in 1983 and is now called World Day for Farmed Animals; FARM reporting identifies the annual observance date as 2 October.
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World Elephant Day first-party history identifies an inaugural August 12, 2012 launch, Patricia Sims and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation as co-founders, and continuing campaign leade…
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The current World Frog Day platform says the observance is held every year on 20 March and is organized by SAVE THE FROGS!; its own history notes earlier informal use of the date.
The Giraffe Conservation Foundation states that it initiated World Giraffe Day, holds it annually on 21 June, and chose the solstice date to pair the tallest animal with the longest day or…
The official World Green Roof Day site says Dusty Gedge and Chris Bridgman started the June 6 observance in 2020; Green Roof Organisation independently promotes the current event.
The Animal Medical Center repeatedly lists World Hamster Day on April 12 in annual pet-awareness calendars.
Multiple established zoological institutions independently use February 15 for World Hippo Day, including current and multi-year observance by Zoos SA and Cincinnati Zoo; the original creat…
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Lemur Conservation Network verifies the last-Friday-in-October World Lemur Day rule and 30 October 2026. Its history traces the linked World Lemur Festival to a 2014 Antananarivo event orga…
Current conservation sources verify August 10 recurrence, while World Animal Protection and National Geographic attribute the 2013 founding to Dereck and Beverly Joubert.
Akron Zoo states that World Lizard Day is celebrated each year on August 14, and Utah’s Hogle Zoo independently lists World Lizard Day on August 14 in its current animal-highlight calendar.…
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The Naturist Education Foundation hosts current World Naked Gardening Day information, verifies the 10 September 2005 inaugural edition and historical date transitions, and states that the…
Project Numbat’s archive identifies 7 November 2015 as the inaugural World Numbat Day and establishes the first Saturday of November recurrence; current Project Numbat material confirms ong…
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TONMO states that it initiated World Octopus Day; its preserved 2007 community thread documents the lineage that evolved into Cephalopod Awareness Days and October 8 World Octopus Day.
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The IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group says World Pangolin Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of February and was founded in 2012 by Rhishja Cota.
World Parrot Trust states that World Parrot Day began in 2004, is observed each May 31, and continues as a WPT-led global conservation and welfare campaign.
Penguins International’s World Penguin Day page identifies 25 April as the observance date and frames it around penguin awareness and conservation.
The World Plant Milk Day campaign identifies 22 August as its annual date, while ProVeg documents the campaign’s 2017 launch with Plant Based News.
Rainforest Partnership states that it founded World Rainforest Day in 2017 and identifies the observance date as 22 June.
World Rhino Day’s official history records WWF-South Africa’s 2010 announcement and a 2011 international expansion led by Lisa Jane Campbell and Rhishja; September 22 remains the annual dat…
World Rivers Day organizers; global initiative launched in 2005 alongside the UN Water for Life Decade
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Government and zoo sources repeatedly observe World Snake Day on 16 July, including India’s National Zoological Park in 2023 and 2025 and a 2026 zoo program. No single creator, founding ins…
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The official World Sparrow Day site states that the initiative is observed annually on March 20, was initiated in 2010 by Nature Forever Society with partners, and lists March 20, 2026 for…
HumaneVMA verifies a fourth-Tuesday-in-February World Spay Day rule and historical humane-society material documents the Spay Day USA predecessor; DDAF currently states a conflicting last-T…
World Tapir Day first-party material verifies annual April 27 observance since 2008 and an organizer/community mission centered on tapir awareness and conservation. A 2018 first-party retro…
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The official World Turtle Day site states that American Tortoise Rescue founded the observance in 2000 and that World Turtle Day is held annually on May 23; its 2026 release marks the 26th…
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U.S. EPA material documents the inaugural World Water Monitoring Day in 2003 as coordinated by America’s Clean Water Foundation and the International Water Association, originally centered…
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