World Animal Welfare Day 2023: Date, History, Theme – World Animal Day is an annual event and is observed on October 4 every year across the globe to raise awareness of animal welfare and to promote the protection of animals. World Animal Day, is also referred to as World Animal Welfare Day or World Animal Protection Day. The day also brings together and mobilises the animal protection movement into a global force to make the world a better place for all animals.
When is World Animal Welfare Day 2023
World Animal Day is celebrated around the world on October 4. In 2023, It will be celebrated on Wednesday, October 4.
World Animal Welfare Day theme 2023
The theme of World Animal Day 2023 is “Big or small, we love them all”.
History of World Animal Welfare Day
- Heinrich Zimmermann, a writer and editor of the German publication Man and Dog introduced the concept for World Animal Day. On March 24, 1925, Zimmermann planned the inaugural World Animal Day event at the Sports Palace in Berlin, Germany.
- In May 1931, The proposal to recognize October 4 as World Animal Day was overwhelmingly approved and enacted as a resolution during the Congress of the International Animal Protection Congress in Florence, Italy.
- The World Animal Day website was launched in 2003 by the UK-based animal protection organization Naturewatch Foundation in an effort to expand the event’s audience.