Advocacy update: New Zealand Fashion Week, trophy hunting, pangolin trade and more
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Together, we've been working tirelessly to raise our voices in conversations with governments, industries, and at various places where decisions are made that affect animals.
From making waves for animals at New Zealand Fashion Week to driving global change behind the scenes. Here’s some of the incredible impact you’ve helped make possible:
You sparked powerful change for wildlife during New Zealand Fashion Week by getting our message “The future of fashion is wildlife free” into the NZ Herald, helping us place bold billboard ads around the event area, and teaming up with influencers to amplify our message and showcase humane alternatives in fashion.
🌟 You also helped us investigate and research traders in Togo, Africa using TikTok to advertise and sell dead endangered wild animals - including white-bellied pangolins.
🌟 And if that weren’t enough, you helped us feature our work to protect crocodiles from the global wildlife trade for luxury fashion in online news and podcasts.
🌟 You helped conduct interviews with more than 1550 households across 12 communities bordering Kruger National Park in South Africa. We found most community members living near the Park support humane, wildlife-friendly conservation for lions as opposed to trophy hunting.
🌟 Our Country Director also joined the panel at the 'Hope In Action: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Travel' forum hosted by World Expeditions to talk about the ‘crush’ process; a practice designed to break the spirit of an elephant so it can be forced into performing for tourists.
🌟 But that’s not all, you helped fund Collective Fashion Justice to develop and launch a guide to support fashion designers in replacing decorative feathers with humane, sustainable and innovative materials alternatives to wild animals like ostriches.
We also joined 600+ animal advocates from around the world who united at this year’s Asia for Animals conference in Taiwan, where our Global CEO, Tricia Croasdell launched our Factory Farming Index: a piece of research exposing the brutality and unsustainability of industrial farming.