End the global wildlife trade. Forever.
Every day, thousands of wild animals are poached, farmed or sold into the global multi-billion-dollar wildlife trade – for food, pets, traditional medicine and entertainment.
Tigers, bears, elephants, pangolins and snakes: these are just some of the wild animals suffering in the cruel wildlife trade right now. Horrific conditions cause unimaginable suffering for every single animal involved.
The wildlife trade also creates a hotbed of zoonotic diseases and illnesses that originate from animals, leading to deadly outbreaks like SARS and now COVID-19. In fact, 75% of new or emerging infectious diseases affecting human health originate in animals, principally in wildlife.
Beyond the pain inflicted on animals, we must stop this trade in wild animals now to help prevent future global health crises and protect our environment for generations to come.
Sign the petition today to call on the Canadian government to commit to ending the global wildlife trade at the G20 Leaders’ Summit this November.
G20: End the wildlife trade. Forever.
We are calling on the Government of Canada to urge the G20 to support an immediate and permanent ban on wildlife markets and to end the global wildlife trade.
Wild animals don’t belong to us, they belong in the wild
Captured from the wild or intensively bred in captivity, the conditions in which wild animals are kept can cause immense stress and suffering, and act as incubators for disease.
We need to practice social distancing from wild animals. Close contact between people and wild animals trapped in cruel captive conditions is a dangerous cocktail that can lead to outbreaks of diseases.
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the urgent need to keep wild animals in the wild – something we have spent decades fighting for.
Now is the time to come together to end the suffering and exploitation of wild animals.