Commercial Exploitation

Every day, thousands of wild animals are poached, farmed or sold into the global multi-billion-dollar trade – for food, pets, traditional medicine and entertainment. Horrific conditions cause unimaginable suffering for every single animal involved. They also create a hotbed of zoonotic disease, leading to outbreaks like SARS and now COVID-19.

Pod of spinner dolphins off the west coast of Oahu, Hawaii

Travel & tourism

Worldwide, wild animals are taken from the wild or bred in captivity to be used for entertainment in the tourism industry.

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