To preserve the wildlife species in the country and to share awareness amongst everyone about their vulnerability, 2^nd to 8^th October is celebrated as the Wildlife Week all over the country every year.

Wild Life Week 2016 would be celebrated this year for the whole week from Wednesday (2^nd October) to the Tuesday (8^th October). It was first started in the year 1952 with the great vision of saving the life of the Indian animals by taking some critical steps. It involves the planning to save animal extinction of any species of the India.

The Indian Government has established an Indian Board of Wild Life which works to improve the awareness as well as the consciousness of the Indian people towards the wildlife preservation. To make the wildlife saving plans successful, varieties of sanctuaries and national parks have been already launched in the appropriate localities all across the country.

A Wild Life Week celebration was planned to arouse the general awakening of the normal people in the country towards the protection of wildlife. It has decided to celebrate the event for one week in the month of October every year by organizing some special activities connected with the wild life conservation.

The Government of India organizes a variety of activities during this great period through the environmentalists, activists, educators who encourage and accelerate the people mind to become aware of the wildlife conservation. As being a mega-storehouse country, India has stored a variety of fauna species.

Every year several conferences, awareness programmes, public meetings and etc are held to manage this big plan. Various schools and institutions aware their students through the wildlife related movie screening, essay writing, painting competition, debate competition and many more.

Throughout the Wild Life week, people of all ages learn from experts through the seminars, lectures as well as hands-on workshops in order to become more closure to the nature. Wildlife preservation is the plan to manage wildlife alongside with the human progress. Both of which are connected by each other on this earth, therefore it is necessary to save the wild life.

• To make people more aware of the conservation and protection of the wild life.
• To focus the people’s attention towards the importance of conservation of the wild life.
• To implement more services to preserve the wild life.
• To discuss all the issues related to the preservation of the wild life.

Themes of Wild Life Week

• The theme of 2011 was “Wildlife That Move Us”.
• The theme of 2013 was “Branching Out for Wildlife”.
• The theme of 2014 was “Wildlife and Water”.
• The theme of 2015 was “Living with Wildlife”.

The theme for this year is decided to be “Members matter: Working together for wildlife”