World Animal Day: Promoting Respectful Cohabitation

World Animal Day: an inspiring family day celebrating the extraordinary diversity of animals we share our world with! The theme is 'Promoting Respectful Cohabitation'.

An Inspiring Family Day

From a Breakfast with the Birds at 8.30 to Plantery Health Bushcare in the afternoon, enjoy a fun-filled and informative day for the whole family, with live music by Mem Davis, Joe Flood and Duck Keegan, plant-based food provided by Bibi's Kitchen and Clean Cravings as well as a Plant Based Cheese Degustation to launch the Plant Inspired Community Cooking Project, Storytime and Craft for Children, a Local Wildlife Exhibition, a program of presentations and stalls to help you find out more about Blue Mountains Bird Observers, WIRES, Wombat Rescue, Action for Animals Blue Mountains and Animal Sanctuaries, the Blue Mountains Conservation Society and more …..

The day is free but please book for the following sessions:

Breakfast with the Birds

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/breakfast-with-the-birds-tickets-1028664983657

Action for Animals & Animal Sanctuaries

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/action-for-animals-animal-sanctuaries-tickets-1028667581427

Animal Welfare Laws in Australia

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/animal-welfare-laws-in-australia-tickets-1028580119827

Animal Storytime for Children

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/animal-storytime-for-children-tickets-1029316552517

How to Build a Possum Box

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/how-to-build-a-possum-box-tickets-1029311186467

Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design and Actions You Can Take

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-and-actions-you-can-take-tickets-1029308709057

The Australian Plant Based Movement and a Plant Based Cheese Degustation

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-australian-plant-based-movement-and-a-plant-based-cheese-degustation-tickets-1029298658997

About World Animal Day

Every year in early October people around the globe come together to celebrate the extraordinary diversity of animals we share our world with. It is an opportunity to remind ourselves of the importance of respecting and caring for our fellow creatures, and furthering strategies to protect the planet as our shared home.

Ninety-nine years ago, on 24 March 1925, Polish writer and publisher Heinrich Zimmermann organised the first World Animal Day in Berlin. The event attracted over 5000 people. A few years later a congress of animal protection organisations chose 4 October (feast day of St Francis D’Assisi, patron saint of animals and ecology) as the official date for the event. Sadly, Zimmermann was killed by the Nazis in 1942, but World Animal Day lives on.

The Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative joins this global movement with a World Animal Day event themed Promoting Respectful Cohabitation. The event will feature a number of info stalls and other activities (exhibition of local wildlife and how you can protect them, storytelling, film screening, planting for biodiversity, possum box construction workshop, music, etc.).