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Date Time International Youth Art Contest for World Wildlife Day 2021 Geneva/New York/Washington DC, 18 December – In celebration of World Wildlife Day (WWD) 2021, celebrated each year on March 3 rd, IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, is hosting its third annual global art contest in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the theme of ‘Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet. Between 240 and 350 million people live in or adjacent to forested areas globally, many of them members of indigenous peoples and local communities with long-standing cultural and social attachment to these environments. The traditional knowledge of these communities who have managed forest ecosystems and its wildlife for centuries, is critical to the conservation of the planet’s most important reservoirs of biodiversity.

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