World Migratory Bird Day 2022 observed on 14th May
Highlights:
- World Migratory Bird Day is marked twice a year since its inauguration in 2006.
- International Migratory Bird Day will be celebrated on 14 May and 8 October 2022.
- The day is celebrated with an aim to safeguard migratory birds’ breeding, non-breeding as well as stopover habitats while preserving a healthy bird population.
- This is important because birds have an important role to play in the environment.
- They are needed to maintain the ecological balance.
- Birds are nature’s ambassadors, which is why it is necessary to restore ecological connection and integrity in order to boost migratory bird migration.
- The theme for World Migratory Bird Day 2022 is light pollution.
- As artificial lighting has been increasing globally by at least 2 per cent per annum, this has had an adverse impact on many birds.
- International Migratory Bird Day was marked in 2006 when the United Nations decided that the world’s population needs to be made aware of the worldwide migratory linkages.
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