Every year on October 4, the whole world celebrates World Animal Day. Today this holiday celebrates its 89th anniversary. It was introduced in Berlin in 1925 by the German writer and animal rights activist Heinrich Zimmermann. Initially, the holiday was celebrated on March 24. The writer's idea was supported in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, and in 1931 at the International Congress held in Florence, Italy, initiated the establishment of the annual World Animal Day, which was celebrated on October 4 in honor of the famous Catholic priest Frances Assisi, the great patron saint of animals.
The purpose of celebrating this day is to expand people's knowledge about animal problems, to encourage more active actions aimed at solving them.
Mykolaiv Zoo not only makes the considerable contribution to business of preservation of animals by their breeding, creation of artificial population of rare animals in the conditions of the zoo. The zoo is also an important center of environmental education. It is in the zoo that people learn to treat such beautiful and vulnerable creatures of nature as animals with respect and care. After all, only by our joint efforts will we save the world of wild animals!