World Octopus Day | History | Octopus  Conservation | Octopus Habitats |The Octopus News Magazine Online

World Octopus Day is celebrated every year on October 8. This day raises awareness about these beautiful and intelligent eight-armed octopuses.  It highlights their role in maintaining marine biodiversity. Moreover, the day also creates awareness about the need to protect octopus habitats and octopus conservation efforts. The Octopus News Magazine Online (TONMO) has created the day to save the octopus. Furthermore, it also serves as a reminder to control marine pollution, overfishing and octopus farming.

History of world octopus day

World octopus day was initiated by biologist James B. Wood in 2010. The day was created to raise awareness about these unique creatures, octopus habitats & octopus conservation. It also promote awareness about the threats octopuses face in the oceans. However, they face many threats such as overfishing, pollution, and climate change. According to reports, The Octopus News Magazine Online (TONMO) was behind establishing the day for octopuses. The Octopus News Magazine Online (TONMO) an online community of cephalopod experts, hobbyists and enthusiasts. It provides a combination of forums, news, articles, media galleries, and community interaction around cephalopod science, culture, care, and conservation. Specially, they focus on octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and nautiluses.

Purpose of World Octopus Day

Mainly, the World Octopus day celebrated to raise awareness about the octopus threats they face and marine conservation. However, these threats include pollution, overfishing, climate change and octopus farming. More importantly, they face threats due to increasing demand of octopus meat. Therefore, octopus meat demand increases the fishing. So, this day helps to promote awareness regarding less use of their meat. The day educates people to support sustainable fishing and ethical seafood consumption.

Similarly, habitat destruction is also a big challenge for their survival. Coastal development and coral reef damage destroy the octopus habitats. In these habitats octopuses live and breed. These habitats are their hiding places for protection and egg-laying. Therefore, this destruction of habitats directly reduces their survival rates.

In addition, this day raises voice against octopus farming to save them. In octopus farming, octopuses raised for their meat. They have different abilities like intelligence, creativity, & problem solving nature. Moreover, these are solitary animals. Therefore, all these abilities make them un suitable for confinement.

The day also educates people about the abilities of octopuses and force people to stop octopus farming.

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What are octopuses?

Octopuses are eight limbed mollusks and known for their intelligence, creativity, flexibility and unique anatomy. They belong to the order octopoda & class cephalopoda. However, the class cephalopoda also includes squids, cuttlefish, and nautiluses. There are over 300 species of octopus found across the world’s oceans.

The latin word octopus derived from Greek name oktōpous meaning eight-feet. They have strong & flexible eight limbs. Notably, each limb can move independently. In addition, they can change color in one-tenth of a second. They are invertibrates.

Most importantly, octopus has three hearts, two branchial or gill hearts and one systemic heart. These branchial hearts pump blood through the gills, while systemic heart pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. Their blood color is blue because their blood contains the copper-rich protein  heamocyanin to transport oxygen.

Octopuses Habitats

They live in almost all oceans around the world. But, specifically found in warm or tropical waters. Particularly, they live in coastal regions with rocky crevices and coral reefs, but some species adapted to live in deep sea.

Octopus Conservation

Octopuses  play an important role in maintaining the marine biodiversity through regulating populations of crabs, mollusks, and fish. They serve as prey for sharks, dolphins, and larger marine animals.  Therefore, through octopus conservation we can help maintaining marine biodiversity & save the octopus. However, WOD plays an important role to create awareness about the challenges they face and octopus conservation.  Many organizations are working to protect them. These organizations include Octopus Foundation and Save the Octopus.

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Dr. Jassar Aftab is a qualified Veterinarian having expertise in veterinary communication. He is a renowned veterinary Journalist of Pakistan. He is veterinary columnist, veterinary writer and veterinary analyst. He is the author of three books. He has written a number of articles and columns on different topics related to livestock, dairy, poultry, wildlife, fisheries, food security and different aspects of animal sciences and veterinary education.

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