World Animal Day

This Tuesday, October 4, World Animal Day is celebrated. The origin of this day, born in the 20s of the last century, is found in Germany. The writer and editor of the magazine Mensch und Hund (Man and Dog), Heinrich Zimmermann, organized this first Day to raise awareness about the importance of animals, which play a major role in shaping the planet's biodiversity and also in society.

Protecting and raising awareness about animal care has ensured that, for example, pandas have left the red list of endangered species and increased their population in their natural habitat.

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There are numerous species currently in danger of extinction. Most of them are caused directly or indirectly by man: climate change, destruction of their habitat, illegal hunting, etc.

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Human actions are compromising the survival of many endangered animals whose population has been reduced to negligible numbers. Unfortunately, there are many species for which there is nothing we can do, since they have completely disappeared and we can only know them through photographs.

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The sustainability of our oceans is closely related with the state of the living beings that inhabit them. Many species are in danger due to man's actions, such as mass hunting of dolphins for food (and especially their sale to dolphinariums), of whales for their meat or for cosmetic use, sharks just for their fin...

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that there are 100 crop species that provide 90% of food around the world and 71 of these are pollinated by bees. In Europe alone, 84% of the 264 crop species and 4,000 plant varieties exist thanks to pollination by bees.

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Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was an English naturalist now regarded as the father of evolutionary biology. His studies on natural selection are unanimously accepted by the scientific community since the 30s of the last century as the primary explanation of the theory of evolution.

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