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World Sparrow Day - March 20
March 21 , 2018
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- The World Sparrow Day (WSD) is observed every year on March 20 to raise awareness among people about house sparrows and other common birds in urban environments and threats to their populations.
- WSD is an international initiative by the Nature Forever Society of India (NFSI) in collaboration with the Eco-Sys Action Foundation (France) and also numerous other national and international organisations across the world.
- The purpose for celebrating the day is to use it as a platform to underscore the need to conserve sparrows as well as the urban biodiversity.
- The first WSD was organised in different parts of the World in 2010.
- In 2012, the then Delhi Government had launched campaign called “Rise of Sparrows” aimed at conservation of House Sparrow among other birds.
- It was also declared as the ‘state bird’ by the then Delhi Government for its conservation.
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