National Threatened Species Day
National Threatened Species Day is held on September 7. Australia. This event in the first decade of the month September is annual.
Australia is home to more than 500,000 animal and plant species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. Over the last 200 years, more than 100 animal and plant species have become extinct.
Threatened Species Day was declared in 1996 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of the last remaining Tasmanian tiger (also known as the thylacine) at Hobart Zoo in 1936. National Threatened Species Day is commemorated across the country on 7 September to raise awareness of plants and animals at risk of extinction.