PfA Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Centre

This year’s theme for World Environment Day is #OnlyOneEarth. This campaign focuses on the need for humans to take care of our planet consciously and adopt ways of living which not only causes less harm to the planet, but also contributes to the healing and wellbeing of it. So this year, let’s focus on the urban wildlife, which greatly contributes to the wellbeing of the ecosystem. We would also delve into how to take care of our urban wildlife and how we can promote their health in an otherwise encroached environment. Urban wildlife is highly ignored in today’s scenario. Cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, etc which have organisations or rescue groups for urban wildlife are successful in creating some level of awareness about the importance of birds, snakes and mammals like macaques and bats. However, in most cities and rural areas, people do not realise the critical role that urban wildlife plays in the wellbeing of the planet. In many parts of the country, urban wildlife is still ...