One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4g44zv37qo
#HackerNews #wildlifetrafficking #wildlifeconservation #animalrights #biodiversity #environmentalissues
Every year in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago which is a protectorate of the kingdom of Denmark situated just 230 miles north-west of mainland Scotland - around 1150 small cetaceans, primarily long-finned pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins are massacred in drive hunts called ‘grindadráp’ (Faroese for the killing of pilot whales). https://www.stopthegrind.org
#AnimalRights #marinelife #whales #dolphins #StopTheGrind #FaroeIslands

Stop the Grind is a global coalition of organisations and individuals working towards a simple mission: To end the inhumane and unnecessary killing of cetaceans (dolphins and whales) in the Faroe Islands. The Stop the Grind campaign is a multi-year initiative that will increase the pressure on the Faroe Islands to ban the Grindadrap.
Help Calves and Sheep Beaten for Car Interiors https://secure.peta.org.uk/page/71805/action/1
Monkeys Aren’t Machines - End Forced Labor on Coconut Farms https://www.speciesunite.com/end-forced-monkey-labor-on-coconut-farms?utm_source=Mastodon
Take Action: Big pork is bludgeoning piglets to death Slamming piglets into a concrete floor sounds too horrific to be true, let alone legal. And yet, “piglet thumping” happens regularly on factory farms. https://act.thehumaneleague.org/end-piglet-thumping
Help Protect Polar Bears and Walruses from Arctic Drilling https://action.nrdc.org/letter/4861-arctic-marine-mammals-040326
#AnimalRights #wildlife #bears #walruses #Arctic #environment #drilling
A Change of Heart: From Sheep Farmer to Vegan https://vimeo.com/1178891027
