The Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly decided to proclaim 3 March as World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise awareness of the world?s flora and fauna on 20 december 2013, the date is the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973, this convention plays significant role in ensuring wildlife safety in international level.
"Getting serious about wildlife crime means enrolling the support of all sections of society involved in the production and consumption of wildlife products, which are widely used as medicines, food, building materials, furniture, cosmetics, clothing and accessories." -Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Slaughtering of animals everyday for their body parts, poached from their natural habitats and trafficked similarly forests are being destroyed. An estimated 1,215 rhinos were poached in South Africa in 2014 while in the last decade, 1,000 rangers have been killed in the global struggle to protect wildlife. Up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade is also estimated to be illicit and tropical deforestation now adds up to 10-15 per cent of global emissions.

Questions may arise like why we need wildlife?? Wildlife threatens us (humans)??

Without flora and fauna can we survive??  Oxygen, clean water and soil, and our earliest tools, food, and clothing came from flora and fauna. Even our fossil fuels are the result of Paleozoic Era ecosystems that captured the sun's energy-the same energy that we are now using billions of years later. Yet increasingly, we fail to acknowledge the tens of thousands of creatures with whom we cohabitate, the wildlife upon whom our very existence is contingent and we are threatening wildlife so it has been vice-versa, we are decreasing their boundary, their natural habitat.

Nepal covers 0.01 percent of the Earth it is home to more than 4 percent of mammal species and 8 percent of the bird species. Last year in February, Nepal added a new milestone in conservation by achieving zero poaching of rhinos, tigers and elephants for the year period.

However, ‪poaching and illegal trade of wildlife not only threatens the very existence of some of these species but also has far-reaching economic, national security, and ecological consequences that are undermining decades of conservation and development gains.

Today, March 3, is World Wildlife Day.

Let?s Get Serious about Wildlife Crime.
Let?s roar against poaching.

‪#‎WorldWildlifeDay ‪ ‪#‎stopwildlifecrime ‪#‎SeriousAboutWildlifeCrime 

Have a look at these videos and links:-

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkU0zYQKq0
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERg6f7tk_w
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Mpi69RIDc
4. http://www.wildlifeday.org/content/download-your-action-poster
5.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V8DbbqKYDQ&feature=youtu.be 

References:-

1. http://www.wildlifeday.org/
2. http://www.un.org/en/events/wildlifeday/
3. http://www.wwfnepal.org/