Endangered Species Day 16 May 2025

Endangered Species Day

Each year on the third Friday of May, people worldwide recognise Endangered Species Day—a day to celebrate, learn about and act on behalf of at-risk wildlife. First launched in 2006 by the Endangered Species Coalition and conservationist David Robinson, this event inspires local and global efforts to protect threatened animals and their habitats.

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Today in History

Serene waters on a trembling earth
Owl be seeing you
16 May 2024International Day of Light

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19 Sep 2025Thousand Islands region, St Lawrence River, USA-Canada border
5 Jan 2024International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Harbin, China
6 Oct 2023Taughannock Falls State Park, New York
The animal kingdoms great migration
2 May 2025Striated heron on a Victoria water lily, Pantanal, Brazil
15 May 2025Palace of Westminster, London, England
16 Feb 2024Female pyrrhuloxia in Texas, USA
Stretching to the sky
Towering trees of Tuscany
11 Oct 2024Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria, England
All going swimmingly
High above the Aegean Sea
6 May 2025An ultralight aircraft flying over the sands of Namibia
8 Oct 2024World Octopus Day
12 Mar 2024Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
9 Jan 2025Sossusvlei sand dunes, Namib desert, Namibia
8 Mar 2024International Womens Day
6 Sep 2024Glenariff Forest Park, Northern Ireland, UK
12 Nov 2025Colosseum, Rome, Italy
If these walls could talk...
Nimble and stealthy
5 May 2025Brighton Festival
Revealing natures turquoise gem
Incan ingenuity
11 Jan 2025Heri es-Swani in Meknes, Morocco
6 Nov 2023Lago Pehoé, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
22 Apr 2024Earth Day
27 Sep 2024Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy
7 Jan 2025Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
9 Feb 2024Pegadung Rock, Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia