Environmental Date | Date(s) |
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National Bird Day | January 5 |
International Zebra Day | January 31 |
| February 2 |
World Ostrich Day[3] [4] | February 2 |
World Marmot Day[5] [6] | February 2 |
World Pangolin Day[7] [8] | Third Saturday of February |
World Whale Day[9] | Third Sunday of February |
World Bonobo Day[10] [11] [12] | February 14 |
World Hippopotamus Day[13] | February 15 |
| February 27 |
| March 3 |
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International Day of Action for Rivers | March 14 |
| March 15 |
Buzzards Day[14] [15] | March 15 |
Digital Cleanup Day[16] | March 15 2025 |
National Panda Day[17] [18] [19] | March 16 |
Global Recycling Day[20] | March 18 |
World Serval Day[21] | March 18 |
Taxonomist Appreciation Day[22] | March 19 |
| March 20 |
World Frog Day[23] [24] [25] | March 20 |
World Rewilding Day[26] | March 20 |
| March 21 |
World Planting Day[27] [28] [29] | March 21 |
World Wood Day[30] | March 21 |
| March 22 |
International Seal Day[31] | March 22 |
| March 23 |
International Day of Zero Waste[32] | March 30 |
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World Aquatic Animal Day[33] | April 3 |
World Rat Day[34] [35] [36] | April 4 |
International Beaver Day[37] [38] | April 7 |
Zoo Lovers Day[39] [40] | April 8 |
| April 26 |
Bat Appreciation Day[41] [42] | April 17 |
| April 22 |
International Pallas's Cat[43] [44] [45] | April 23 |
| April 24 |
World Tapir Day[46] [47] [48] | April 27 |
International Hyena Day[49] [50] | April 27 |
| April 29 |
| 05: First Saturday of May in Vermont |
World Tuna Day[51] [52] [53] | May 2 |
International Leopard Day[54] [55] [56] | May 3 |
Wild Koala Day[57] [58] | May 3 |
| 05-04: May 4 in Japan (previously April 29) |
World Donkey Day[59] | May 8 |
Go Public Gardens Days | Friday before to the Sunday after Mother's Day |
World Migratory Bird Day[60] | Second Saturday of May. Second Saturday of May in the U.S. and Canada; Second Saturday of October in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. |
World Binturong Day[61] | Second Saturday of May. |
Endangered Species Day[62] | Third Friday of May |
| Third Friday of May |
| May 20 |
International Day for Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day) | May 22 |
| May 23 |
European Day of Parks – Europarc Federation[63] | May 24 |
World Otter Day[64] [65] | May 25 |
World Dugong Day[66] [67] | May 28 |
| May 29 |
| May 31 |
World Parrot Day[68] [69] [70] | May 31 |
World Reef Day[71] [72] | June 1 |
World Peatlands Day | June 2 |
World Bicycle Day[73] | June 3 |
| June 5 |
Solomon Memorial Day | June 5 |
| June 8 |
| June 9 |
International Lynx Day[74] [75] | June 11 |
National Cougar Day[76] | June 12 |
| June 15 |
World Sea Turtle Day[77] | June 16 |
| June 17 |
World Croc Day[78] | June 17 |
World Horseshoe Crab Day[79] [80] | June 20 |
World Giraffe Day | June 21 |
World Camel Day[81] [82] [83] | June 22 |
World Rainforest Day[84] [85] | June 22 |
Black Birders Week[86] | June 24 |
| June 25 |
| 07-11: July 11 |
Shark Awareness Day[87] [88] [89] [90] | 07-14: July 14 |
World Chimpanzee Day[91] [92] [93] | 07-14: July 14 |
World Orca Day[94] | 07-14: July 14 |
World Snake Day[95] | 07-16: July 16 |
International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystems | 07-26: July 26 |
World Nature Conservation Day[96] [97] [98] | 07-28: July 28 |
| 07-29: July 29 |
| 07-31: July 31 |
International Clouded Leopard Day[99] | 08-04: August 4 |
International Moon Bear Day | 08-08: August 8 |
World Lion Day[100] | 08-10: August 10 |
| 08-12: August 12 |
World Hirola Day[101] | 08-12: August 12 |
International Wolf Day[102] [103] | 08-13: August 13 |
World Lizard Day[104] [105] | 02-08: February 8 |
National Honey Bee Day | 08-15: August 15 |
World Orangutan Day[106] | 08-19: August 19 |
| 08-20: August 20 |
World African Wild Dog Day[107] | 08-26: August 26 |
International Whale Shark Day[108] [109] | 08-30: August 30 |
World Beach Day, aka National Beach Day[110] | 09-01: September 1 |
International Primate Day[111] | 09-01: September 1 |
Japan Dolphin Day[112] [113] | 09-01: September 1 |
Amazon Rainforest Day[114] | 09-05: September 5 |
International Vulture Awareness Day[115] [116] [117] | 09: First Saturday of September |
International Day of Clean Air for blue skies | 09-16: September 7 |
World Dolphin Day[118] | 09-12: September 12 |
International Colugo Day[119] | 09-15: September 15 |
| 09-16: September 16 |
World Manta Day[120] | 09-17: September 17 |
| 09-18: September 18 |
[121] [122] [123] | 09: Third Friday in September |
World Cleanup Day[124] | 09: September 16, 2023, Third Saturday in September |
National Cleanup Day[125] | 09: September 18, 2021, Third Saturday in September |
International Red Panda Day[126] | 09: Third Saturday of September |
Zero Emissions Day[127] | 09-21: September 21 |
| 09-22: September 22 |
World Rhino Day[128] | 09-22: September 22 |
Ecological Debt Day (Earth Overshoot Day) | 09-23: September 23 in 2008, but receding |
World Gorilla Day[129] [130] [131] | 09-24: September 24 |
World Environmental Health Day[132] | 09-26: September 26 since 2011 (IFEH)[133] |
World Cassowary Day[134] [135] | 09-26: September 26 |
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste[136] | 09-29: September 29 |
World Rivers Day[137] | 09: Last Sunday of September |
Australian Wildlife Week[138] | First Week of October |
International Raccoon Appreciation Day[139] | 10-01: October 1 |
World Farm Animals Day[140] | 10-02: October 2 |
| 10: First Monday of October |
| 10-04: October 4 |
National Badger Day[141] [142] [143] | 10-06: October 6 |
World Octopus Day[144] [145] [146] | 10-08: October 8 |
Energy Efficiency Day[147] | 10: First Wednesday in October |
| 10-13: October 13 |
International E-Waste Day[148] [149] [150] | 10-14: October 14 |
International Sawfish Day[151] | 10-17: October 17 |
Stepping Stone Day[152] | 10-17: October 17 |
Sustainability Day![153] | 10: Fourth Wednesday of October |
World Okapi Day[154] [155] | 10-18: October 18 |
International Sloth Day[156] [157] [158] | 10-20: October 20 |
National Reptile Awareness Day[159] [160] | 10-21: October 21 |
World Earthworn Day[161] [162] | 10-21: October 21 |
International Wombat Day[163] [164] [165] | 10-22: October 22 |
International Snow Leopard Day[166] [167] | 10-23: October 23 |
Freshwater Dolphin Day[168] | 10-24: October 24 |
International Gibbon Day[169] [170] [171] | 10-24: October 24 |
| 10-24: October 24 |
World Lemur Day[172] [173] | 10: Last Friday of October |
World Ecology Day[174] | 11-01: November 1 |
| 11-01: November 1 |
World Basking Shark Day | 11-03: November 3 |
| 11-06: November 6 |
| 11: First Saturday in November |
| 11-15: November 15 |
World Fisheries Day[175] | 11-21: November 21 |
International Jaguar Day[176] [177] | 11-29: November 29 |
International Cheetah Day[178] [179] | 12-04: December 4 |
Wildlife Conservation Day[180] | 12-04: December 4 |
World Soil Day[181] | 12-05: December 5 |
| 12-11: December 11 |
| 12-14: December 14 |
Ozone Action Day | Variable date depending weather conditions |
eDay – Electronic Waste Day | Variable date, in New Zealand |
World Fish Migration Day | Variable date (next one- 22 May 2022; last one- 24 October 2020)Ayush | |
Name | Date |
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tUrn Climate Crisis Awareness and Action Week[182] | April 19–23, 2021 |
| 2019 date, February 15–18 |
Invasive Species Awareness Week[183] | | Last week of February |
| | 2016 date, April 18–22 |
Keep Australia Beautiful Week[184] | Last full week of August |
| 02 (first week in February every year in the United States) |
National Wildlife Week[185] | |
| 04 (week of new moon in April) |
| |
National Pollinator Week[186] | third week in June |
| June 22 to June 28[187] |
Plastic Free July[188] | July 1 to 31 |
National Clean Beaches Week | July 1 to 7 |
Van Mohatsav Saptah (Forest Festival Week) | |
| |
World Water Week | 08-26: August 26–31 |
| 09–16 to 09–22: September 16 to 22 |
| 06: second week in June |
Recycle Week[189] | 06: 20 to 26 June 2011 |
Zero Waste Week | first week of September |
| |
European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) | 11: 9 days, last complete week in November |
Science Literacy Week (Canada)[190] | 16–22: September |
| 09: China, week of September 22 |
| 08 or 09: each year in August or September |
| August 21–27 |
World Oceans Week[191] | 01–08: June |
National Herbal Medicine Week | Each year for the last week in October[192] |
International Compost Awareness Week | First full week in May[193] | |
YEAR | EVENTS |
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2004 | International year of rice |
2005 | International year of parthenium |
2006 | International year of desert and desertification |
2007 | International year of water |
2008 | International year of potato |
2009 | International year of natural fibres |
2010 | International year of biodiversity |
2011 | International year of forest |
2012 | International year of cooperative (Also celebrated as National year of horticulture) |
2013 | International year of water cooperation |
2014 | International year of family farming |
2015 | International year of soil and Light |
2016 | International year of pulses (theme- nutritious seed for sustainable agriculture) |
2017 | International year of sustainable tourism |
2018 | Recommended for International year of millets (Declared as National year of millets) |
2019 | International year of Indigenous language |
2020 | International Year of Plant Health |
2021 | International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. And also International Year of Fruits and Vegetables |
2022 | International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture |
2023 | International year of Millets |
2024 | International Year of Camelids | |