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The world’s biggest navies must help stop vessels fishing illegally, and save animals

14 December 2017

We know boats fishing illegally often lose or dump nets and other equipment – and it’s killing sea animals. Now it’s time for the world’s navies to become part of the solution

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Animals in the wild

Sea change campaign

Vietnam’s National Bear Week highlights importance of ending the country’s cruel bear bile industry

14 December 2017

We’re microchipping more bears in Vietnam, which will help end the awful practice of extracting bear bile for traditional medicine

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Our work with bears

We’re working with local venues to make tourism in Thailand more elephant-friendly

06 December 2017

We’ve developed a new business model to help make elephant tourist attractions in Thailand safer for elephants, by shifting away from cruel and unnatural entertainment practices

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Animals in the wild

Promoting global animal welfare

This is big: Together we’ve moved Instagram to help end cruel animal selfies

04 December 2017

Our Wildlife Selfie Code campaign has successfully influenced one of the biggest social media sites to educate its users around the suffering wildlife selfies can cause to animals

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Animals in the wild

Animals in entertainment

How plastic pollution is affecting seals and other marine life

17 November 2017

Microplastics, abandoned fishing gear and other plastic pollution are among our biggest environmental threats. It’s hurting sea animals and making them sick

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Sea change campaign

Hope for vaquitas: removing life-threatening illegal nets to help save world’s most endangered marine animal

02 November 2017

Devastatingly, there are just 23 vaquita porpoises left on earth. Along with partners, we’re using sonar scanning technology to find lost and abandoned nets in Mexico’s Gulf of California, where all these remaining vaquitas live

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Sea change campaign

Shocking video of sloth snatched from the wild reveals true horror behind wildlife selfies

20 October 2017

Footage from our undercover investigations shows a sloth being forced into a sack by illegal loggers after falling 100 feet to the ground. You can help end cruelty like this by committing to cruelty-free wildlife selfies

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Animals in the wild

Animals in entertainment

Protecting animals from natural disasters before they strike: reducing risk is not negotiable, it saves lives

13 October 2017

It’s not enough to respond only after a disaster has struck. This International Day for Disaster Reduction (October 13), our disasters project manager highlights the importance of proactively protecting animals and animal owners

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Animals in disasters

Why animals matter in a disaster

Disaster response team

Iconic Amazonian wild animals are suffering for selfies

04 October 2017

Our ground-breaking new report reveals the exploitation of sloths, caiman, anacondas, and more, who are used for tourist selfies across Latin America

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Animals in the wild

Animals in entertainment

PADI to help protect thousands of marine animals by combatting ‘ghost gear’

27 September 2017

By joining the Global Ghost Gear Initiative that we founded in 2015, the association will encourage millions of scuba divers to help reduce lost and abandoned fishing gear. Ghost gear entangles and kills hundreds of thousands of animals each year

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Animals in the wild

Sea change campaign

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The world’s biggest navies must help stop vessels fishing illegally, and save animals

Vietnam’s National Bear Week highlights importance of ending the country’s cruel bear bile industry

We’re working with local venues to make tourism in Thailand more elephant-friendly

This is big: Together we’ve moved Instagram to help end cruel animal selfies

How plastic pollution is affecting seals and other marine life

Hope for vaquitas: removing life-threatening illegal nets to help save world’s most endangered marine animal

Shocking video of sloth snatched from the wild reveals true horror behind wildlife selfies

Protecting animals from natural disasters before they strike: reducing risk is not negotiable, it saves lives

Iconic Amazonian wild animals are suffering for selfies

PADI to help protect thousands of marine animals by combatting ‘ghost gear’

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