World Wildlife Day 2018
On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 3 March – the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES – as UN World Wildlife Day. This day was proclaimed to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The theme of WWD18 was “Big cats: predators under threat”.The IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group Cat SG joint up with the Swiss governmental agencies in charge of CITES and the Convention on Migratory Species CMS to celebrate WWD18 in Bern. On the 3 March 2018 afternoon, the Cat SG, together with the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO, the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA, and the private company Innflow AG, organised a symposium where several of the big cats and global instruments for their conservation were presented.