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Highlights This year World Wildlife Day theme is "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet" New Delhi: On December 20, 2013, at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), March 3 was proclaimed as World Wildlife Day.  The day is celebrated "as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent areas," according to the official website of the World ...

Netherlands looking into authorizing AstraZeneca vaccine for those over 65 From CNN’s Mick Krever in London A vial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is pictured in Oss, Netherlands, on February 12. Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP/Getty Images The Netherlands government has asked the Health Council of the Netherlands for advice on administering the AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 to those over age 65. That vaccine is currently only being used in the Netherlands for those aged 60 to 64, those with Down’s Syndrome, and the “morbidly obese.” The government has asked the Health Council, an indepe...

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed to ensure protection of animals and preserve forest and safe habitats for

Fake Covid-19 vaccine network dismantled in South Africa and China, Interpol says From CNN's James Frater in London and Niamh Kennedy in Dublin, Ireland South African authorities seized fake COVID-19 vaccines after INTERPOL issued a global alert. INTERPOL A global fake Covid-19 distribution network has been dismantled in South Africa and China and “hundreds of illicit vaccines seized with arrests made across two continents,” says Interpol, which represents 194 international police forces. In a statement published Wednesday, Interpol said that in South Africa, “some 400 ampoules -- equiv...

This US grocery chain will still require masks despite some states lifting mask mandates From CNN's Konstantin Toropin A Kroger worker assists a customer at the checkout counter in Versailles, Kentucky, in November 2020. Scotty Perry/Bloomberg/Getty Images The grocery chain Kroger announced it will still require customers to wear masks inside its stores across the country despite the reversal of mask mandates in Texas and Mississippi, a statement said today. The company, which bills itself as "America's largest grocer" said that it will "continue to require everyone in our stores across the c...