International Horseshoe Crab Day
International Horseshoe Crab Day is held on June 20. This event in the second decade of the month June is annual. Help us
The International Union for Conservation of Nature Horseshoe Crab Specialist Group invites people around the world to celebrate the value of horseshoe crabs in our coastal ecosystems on June 20, 2020. The world's horseshoe crab populations are in decline largely due to overharvesting and habitat loss.
In further extending their public outreach activities around the world, the IUCN SSC Horseshoe Crab Specialist Group have designated 20th June every year as the International Horseshoe Crab Day to showcase the collective conservation efforts for the four horseshoe crab species.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
World Sickle Cell Day on June 19 (International);
World Sauntering Day on June 19 (The holiday was created in 1979 by W.T. Rabe in response to the growing popularity of jogging. It is believed to have begun at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan, USA. The Grand Hotel has the world's longest porch at 660 feet. The idea behind the day was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them);
Feast of Forest on June 19 (Palawan);
Lambrusco Day on June 20 (Lambrusco is a sparkling red wine made from the Lambrusco grape);
International Slowness Day on June 20 (Clémence Boucher, a Montreal community worker, got together with some friends in 2001 and picked June 21 — the longest day of the year — to kick off her movement.);
Dump The Pump Day on June 20 (Third Thursday of June);
World Giraffe Day on June 21 (is an exciting annual event initiated by GCF to celebrate the longest-necked animal on the longest day or night);
Take Your Dog to Work Day on June 21 (Friday after Father's Day);
World Humanist Day on June 21 (from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the American Humanist Association and International Humanist and Ethical Union passed resolutions declaring World Humanist Day to be on the northern summer solstice);
Make Music Day on June 21 (Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries);