WORLD WILDLIFE DAY 2022

“World Wildlife Day this year reminds us of the power and privilege we have as humans to care for the special and unique wildlife that inhabits our planet with the theme ‘The Future of Wildlife is in Our Hands”

UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Yaya Touré

World Wildlife Day is a day proposed by the United Nations to celebrate the wild biodiversity. This day also aims to emphasize the need to step up the fight against environmental crime that attacks wildlife by providing an opportunity to reflect on the economic, environmental and social repercussions they generate.

World Wildlife Day is a day proposed by the United Nations to celebrate the diversity of wild fauna and flora. This day also aims to emphasize the need to step up the fight against environmental crime that attacks wildlife by providing an opportunity to reflect on the economic, environmental and social repercussions they generate.

Researchers and scientists are also working to help us better understand natural ecosystems and their interactions with our human lifestyles.

Those involved in the preservation of biodiversity are confronted with significant needs in terms of knowledge of biodiversity at the level of continental surfaces. To have a vision both on a global and local scale and on very specific issues whether at the level of natural habitats or the distribution of biodiversity, satellite images offer a very fine tool in the study of the biodiversity.

Thanks to the Theia hub and its Center of Scientific Expertise dedicated to biodiversity , They allow to characterize the state of natural environments and the level of pressure.

 

At Ocean level, researchers and scientists are also working to help us better understand natural ecosystems and their interactions with our human lifestyles. We have also a lack of knowledge of biodiversity even if each year researchers advance in understanding the major mechanisms that allow it to be safeguarded and preserved. For example, did you know that only 1% of living beings are known to exist in the abyss?

Thanks to the ODATIS pole dedicated to the observation of the Oceans, it is possible to better understand marine biology through several disciplines and help discover more about the life in the abyss : Bivalves Health surveillance networks in shellfish farming areas,  Benthic habitats Datasets that focus on benthic habitats (physical habitat maps, biological zone maps…) and those that inhabit them (REBENT, Benthos…), Tropical marine life organisms the French Polynesian Coral Reef Observation Service, Pathogenic organisms, Phytoplancton, Zooplankton animal plankton (as opposed to phytoplankton).