World Animal Day

Love for animals is an inherent feeling. Many people love animals whatever the kind maybe and treat them with love and take care of them but there are people who are cruel to animals and mistreat them.we should prevent animals being killed for their skins or for their flesh without respecting the will of the animal who has a right to live. It is this situation that must be prevented and animals which are becoming extinct should be protected.

World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species.

October 4 was chosen as World Animal Day as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

Since then, World Animal Day has become a day for remembering and paying tribute to all animals and the people who love and respect them. It's celebrated in different ways in every country, with no regard to nationality, religion, faith or political ideology. This day has been set aside to create awareness about the animals who are becoming extinct because of human action. In sri Lanka even the elephant which we find in reasonably large numbers will become extinct son because of people encroaching their territory.

At present there is a human -elephant conflict in areas where elephants are found in large numbers and in the end it is the animal that suffers. Children remember to treat animals with care because they need our attention if they are to survive.

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