Stop Baby Cheetahs Being Sold on Facebook!
Along with many other critically endangered species. Please sign this petition to ban it.
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It beggars belief. I already knew that poachers have long been a serious threat to the efforts of admirable people who shed heart’s tears over man’s treatment of the planet, and who devote precious resources of their own towards protecting wildlife. But I’ve just discovered that (to add to their growing list of shame) Facebook is now permitting the expansion of this vile practice into full-scale wildlife-trafficking. In addition to cheetah- and tiger-cubs, baby orangutans are now on sale on their site. So are monkeys, bears and birds … as well as ivory, grisly animal parts and more. All are illegal; all impact endangered species who are already struggling to survive against man’s over-population and continuing destruction of the earth.
Poaching has always been a lucrative trade but, according to Avaaz, wildlife-trafficking — enabled by internet platforms like Facebook — is worth up to $23 billion a year (avaaz.org). It is immoral, illegal and selfishly cruel. Let’s be in no doubt — these creatures suffer terribly. They will probably have had to witness their parents being killed (how else to steal a cub from beneath the nose of…
