End the global wildlife trade. Forever.

Animals are at the centre of a cruel multi-billion-dollar business that exploits them on an industrial scale. Every year, millions of wild animals are sold into the global wildlife trade for food, traditional medicine, entertainment and to become pets.

Sugar gliders, otters and Ball pythons: 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. 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.

Ending the global wildlife trade is one of the most effective strategies to prevent future pandemics, end the suffering of wild animals and to protect biodiversity.

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.

Help end all wildlife exploitation

Wild animals are exploited for tourist entertainment. They are torn away as babies and trained into submission so they can be forced to interact with tourists for rides, selfies and performances.
An otter in captivity at a cafe in Tokyo, Japan. Credit Line: World Animal Protection / Aaron Gekoski
Wild animals are exploited as 'exotic pets'. Poached from the wild or bred in captivity, these animals suffer long before they reach our homes.
A bear cub in a farm in Phuc Tho, Vietnam - World Animal Protection
Wild animals are exploited to use in traditional medicines. Often bred on farms, they are kept in small, barren cages so their body parts can used in traditional medicines.

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