Important Environmental Dates

• January 
  • National Bird Day - 5th
  • Florida Arbor Day - 15th
• February
  • World Wetlands Day - 2nd
  • Charles Darwin Day - 12th
  • Great Backyard Bird Count week - 18th - 21st
• March
  • World Water Day - 2nd
  • International Day of the Seal - 22nd
  • National Parks - 1st one established March 1, 1872
• April
  • National Week of the Oceans NOAA - 3rd - 9th
  • Earth Day -Great  American Clean-Up- 22nd
  • Marjorie Stoneman Douglass B-Day - 7th
  • National Park Week
  • National Bird Day - 26th
  • National Wildlife Week
  • National Dolphin Day - 14th
• May
  • Migratory Bird Day - 14th
  • National Safety Boating Week - Prior to Memorial Day Wknd
  • National Maritime Day May - 22nd
  • National Hurricane Prepardness Week
  • World Turtle Day - 23rd
  • Rachel Carson - 27nd
• June
  • World Environment Day - 5th
  • Yves Cousteau Day
  • Ocean Day - 8th
  • World Whale Day - 21st
• July
  • REEF Count
• August
• September
  • Coastal Clean Up - 17th
  • National Estuary Day - 24th
  • National Public Lands Day - Last Saturday of the month
  • National Wildlife Ecology Day - 12th
• October
  • Walk to school Day - 6th
  • National Wildlife Refuge Week - 10th-16th
  • World Habitat Day - 3rd
  • Reptile Awareness Day - 22nd
  • Seafood Month
  • World Food Day - 16th
  • Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1972
  • Clean Water Act
  • Leif Erikson Day - 9th
• November
  • Manatee Awareness Month
  • World Fisheries Day - 21st
  • America Recycles Day - 15th
  • National Parks Services - 16th, 1916