Taking action for animals

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Make your voice count

Your voice is needed on these important issues. Here’s how you can take action — and why it matters.

Your actions make a difference

Make sure your elected officials know that you are an advocate for animals. When you contact your elected official, you’re putting a face and a name on an issue.

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The most widely read blog this year was about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency announcing it will allow a Texas billionaire to import the trophy of a black rhino he had killed in Namibia.
Ask the UK government to ban the import of hunting trophies

A trophy import ban would create a major disincentive for British trophy hunters to travel abroad to kill animals

Vegan market food
Subodh Agnihotri
EatKind

Join the plant-based revolution and pledge to EatKind for animals, people and the planet.

Ten-day-old harp seal pup fur starting to turn black, Iles de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada.

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You can save the seals

Urge Canada's new administration to protect seals now and transition those involved in the industry to sustainable, humane livelihoods that can bring in far more revenue.

Jo-Anne McArthur
UK: Act for Wildlife

Please ask your MP to join us in Parliament at two important events on Tuesday 4th and Thursday 6th March so that we can strengthen UK wildlife laws and end the UK fur trade.

Image of arctic foxes in cages at a fur farm.

Balvik C./We Animals Media

The facts of animal fur production are brutal. Ninety-five percent of fur comes from wild animals confined in small wire cages, their instincts thwarted, their wounds left untreated, their lives ended by anal electrocution, gassing, clubbing or the breaking of their necks.
Ban the fur trade in the UK

UK continues to allow fur to be imported and sold, effectively outsourcing fur cruelty overseas. 

Pigs look out from an enclosure
Gabriela Penela/We Animals Media
Ban farrowing crates in the UK

Mother pigs (sows) confined in crates in the UK spend their adult lives unable to do anything other than stand up or lie down. It is cruel and unnecessary to force sows to be locked in narrow metal cages.