World Animal Protection Launches a Digital Campaign to End Global Wildlife Trade

 

By Dickson Odhiambo

August 27, 2020

World Animal Protection Launches a Digital Campaign to End Global Wildlife Trade

World Animal Protection has launched a global digital campaign to end wildlife trade.  

The campaign aims to put pressure on South Africa and other G20 countries to commit to a ban on the global wildlife trade.

The campaign comes at the back of more evidence that COVID19 could have come from animal trade.

“The leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies can bring about a collective response and global answers to the COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics. We can no longer afford to leave this to chance. A global wildlife trade ban is the only way to end the cruelty and protect our health and economies.” Says Edith Kabesiime, Campaigns Manager at World Animal Protection.

She says Animals like lions are at the center of a cruel multi-billion-dollar business that exploits them on an industrial scale.

She adds that their bones are traded as medicine, bred in captivity, enduring a life of suffering. They are deprived of the life they would have in the wild.

They are shipped around as freight, treated as mere commodities, with their well being ignored as well as being crammed into cages, kept in poor health, and often killed for their body parts.This is a business that is inherently cruel”. She adds.

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