Tag: wildlife trade

World Animal Protection | #EndWildlifeTrade

Posted on August 26, 2020September 2, 2020 by Charlie

Now, we have thought about this long and hard but we can’t find anything positive to say about wildlife trade. It is either theft of wildlife from its natural habitat or the confinement of captive-bred ‘wildlife’ for the rest of its largely unnatural life. It is emptying forests around the world (leaving huge areas silent and devoid of mammals and birds). It is at the root of major pandemics (SARS and Covid-19 appear to be directly traceable back to the wildlife trade). It is exterminating populations of animals many of us won’t have even heard of until relatively recently (the pangolin, Totoaba, Helmeted Hornbill for example). And what we’re doing to Lions is barely comprehensible…World Animal Protection is trying to put an end to wildlife trade and we’re happy to support them…

Podcast: Checking in with Boyd Leupen, Monitor Conservation Research Society

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Charlie

Here at The War on Wildlife Project we were thinking that as us campaigners, conservationists, and activists can’t get out to meet and see each other now, how about creating something to bring the conservation community together – everyone from individuals to grassroots organisations to larger charities – something that reminds us all that we’re still out there, still working, but that also shows the human side of things during this COVID-19 crisis. We could think of them as ‘check-ins’ – as in ‘checking-in to make sure we’re all okay’.

Podcast: Checking in with Dominic Dyer, chief-executive Badger Trust

Posted on March 23, 2020March 30, 2020 by Charlie

Marine Connection | Action Alert (Beluga Transfers)

Posted on November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 by Charlie

It is Marine Connection’s belief that Marineland is using loopholes in the Canadian legislation on research to trade their belugas with the USA and Spanish facilities. We further believe that the animals will also be used to breed from.

Union Island Gecko – another victim of the wildlife trade

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Charlie

One of many species being brought to the edge of extinction by the illegal wildlife trade is the beautiful Union Island Gecko, a tiny lizard about the length of a little finger. With vivid, colourful scales and bright orange-rimmed eyes, the species is found in just one 50 hectare forest, on a tiny island in the Caribbean:.

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