Every day, thousands of wild animals are poached, farmed or sold into the global multi-billion-dollar wildlife trade – for food, pets, traditional medicine, entertainment and fashion products.
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Fashion victims: The trade in Australian saltwater crocodile skins
From wild animal selfies to swimming with dolphins and elephant riding to petting lion cubs and taking tiger selfies, cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry is rampant.
Views that abuse: The rise of fake “animal rescue” videos on YouTube
Each year, millions of wild animals are captured from their natural habitats or born into captivity, just to become pets. Our houses are not suitable homes for a wild animal.
Wild at Heart: The hidden cruelty behind the exotic pet trade of African grey parrots
Wildlife. Not Medicine
The demand for traditional Asian medicine is threatening wildlife populations around the world. From big cat farms to pangolin poaching, iconic animals are being pushed to the bring of extinction to fuel a scientifically unproven practice.
Cruel Cures: The industry behind bear bile production and how to end it
Trading Cruelty: How big cat farming fuels the traditional Asian medicine industry
A staggering 640,000 tons of abandoned fishing gear (ghost gear) is left in our oceans each year. This gear traps, mutilates, and kills hundreds of thousands of animals annually.
Millions of dogs are culled each year – in fruitless efforts to stop rabies spreading. Culling dogs is not the solution to rabies. The only way to eliminate the virus is through vaccination.
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All eyes on dogs: How dogs hold the solution to ending human rabies by 2030
