Wildlife Trade

Namibia Confirms Its Wild Elephants Are up for Sale – Despite Massive Outcry

By Melissa Reitz With the tender for auction now closed, Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism (MEFT) is finalizing buyer details for the sale of 170 wild elephants. Namibian authorities say there are too many elephants in the country. But conservationists are up in arms, saying the ministry has inflated actual elephant numbers. MEFT […]

COVID-19 Border Restrictions Do Nothing to Curb Illegal Wildlife Trade in Central Africa

By Melissa Reitz When COVID-19 broke out in Africa, it was hoped that travel restrictions and border closures would go some way to limiting the illegal wildlife trade from Central Africa to Asian countries. It did not happen. A recent spike in poaching and arrests confirms the demand for wildlife animal parts from Central African […]

Shocking News as Kruger’s Rhino Numbers Are Finally Revealed

By Melissa Reitz A sobering new report by South African National Parks (SANParks) has confirmed the shocking decline in rhino numbers in Kruger National Park, home to the highest concentration of rhino in the world. Figures have plummeted to an estimated 3,529 white rhino and 268 black rhinos. This information, which come after years of […]

Badgers are still being SENSELESSLY MURDERED by the thousands for absolutely NO PURPOSE!

We have told you before about the cruelty involved in the pointless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of badgers in England, in a vain bid to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. The first thing to know about this cull is that it does not work. Between 2013 and 2020, up to […]

Albatrosses to the Rescue: Policing Illegal Fishing

Words: Melissa Reitz Albatrosses are proving invaluable in the fight against illegal fishing in international waters. Fitted with tiny radar-detecting trackers, these huge birds help spot fishing boats that have turned off their automatic identification system (AIS) to hide illegal fishing. In a six-month pilot project, 169 wandering and Amsterdam albatrosses fitted with GPS trackers […]

EATEN TO EXTINCTION! Millions of frogs are being tortured, maimed and killed – for the dinner table!

As we’ve told you before, MILLIONS of frogs are being tortured, maimed and killed so they can be served up as a ‘delicacy’ in restaurants. Turkey’s Anatolian water frogs are cruelly harvested by the thousands every day before being sent to a fate of even more horrifying cruelty. The Anatolian water frog can’t survive this […]

In World-First, Germany Outlaws the Mass Culling of Male Chicks

With the approval of a new draft law, Germany is set to lead the way in the poultry industry by becoming the first in the world to ban the mass culling of male chicks. Every year, millions of male chicks are either shredded or gassed to death soon after hatching as they are not suitable […]

Habitat encroachment, poisoning, local superstitions and traditional medicines threaten birds of prey!

Majestic birds of prey are dying senseless, excruciating deaths. Iconic species of birds around the globe are at risk of being wiped out. Threats including habitat loss, poisoning, local superstitions, razor wire, traditional ‘medicines’ and climate change. These iconic animals could disappear from our skies altogether. Join us today and give threatened owls, hawks, eagles, […]

Mink Farms: Denmark Shows No Remorse for Gross Animal Cruelty

Disturbing photographs and video footage shared worldwide of mink gassed and buried in mass graves in Denmark has highlighted how little we value the lives and deaths of so-called factory farm animals. Millions of mink have been mercilessly slaughtered at the Danish government’s instruction since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. This, after a handful […]

Good News for Polar Bears, as Trump Fails

Heeding the warnings of the Animal Survival International (formerly Political Animal Lobby), other environmentalists, watchdog groups, and native Alaskans alike, major oil companies steered clear of fossil fuel leases in the vulnerable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The refuge is a breeding ground for endangered polar bears. Bears give birth in dens they create in […]

Heartbreak as Over 500 Wildlife Shot Dead by Hunters in Portugal

The indiscriminate and senseless slaughter of over 500 wild animals in Portugal by a group of Spanish hunters has been described as a “vile and hateful act against nature”. The killing spree spanned over two days in mid-December on a 2,700-acre farm in Torrebela, roughly 40km from the Portuguese capital Lisbon. According to several reports, […]

It is not too late to SAVE ANIMALS FROM EXTINCTION! But we URGENTLY need your help now!

The harsh news we bring you is that extinction for many animals is not around the corner… … it’s now. According to the United Nations, 6,523 species are critically endangered and headed for extinction as we approach 2021. That’s why we at ASI will do everything in our power to fight harder for animals in […]

Massive Victory for Polar Bears as U.S. Court of Appeals Says No to Arctic Oil Drilling

A United States federal court has rejected the Trump administration’s plans to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a massive victory for polar bears. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the approval of a controversial oil drilling project in the Beaufort Sea situated north of Canada and Alaska […]

America Is Running Low on Monkeys to Exploit for COVID-19 Vaccine Tests

The number of monkeys is drastically declining as laboratories worldwide rely on animal cruelty, exploitation, and suffering to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus. While disturbing videos circulate on social media of monkeys being tortured in laboratories to test the COVID-19 vaccine, infectious diseases scientists in the United States claim there are “just not enough […]

Eurotunnel’s Decision to Clamp Down on Dog Travel Will See Rescue Dogs Suffer

Animal welfare organizations say a controversial decision by an extensive railway shuttle service operating between France and the United Kingdom will have a devastating impact on thousands of rescue animals. Eurotunnel recently announced changes to their pet transportation rules, one of which includes the limitation of the number of dogs that can be transported using […]

Decapitated Tiger Head and Big Cat Body Parts Found During Raid at Private Thailand Zoo

Gruesome details have emerged after the decapitated head of a tiger was found inside a private zoo in Thailand. The animal’s severed head was discovered on a black tray – with its eyes still open – along with several other dismembered tiger corpses, during a wildlife trafficking raid at the Mukda Tiger Park and Farm […]

Beautiful Painted Dogs In Grave Danger!

Painted dogs are among the rarest of wild creatures – and they need your help! There are just 6,500 left in the world, down from 500,000, and their numbers are dropping every day. In the wild, their biggest threat was lions – now it’s man! Their habitat is shrinking, and they are being snared in […]

Bottled Birds: Horrific Abuse of Protected Parrots Stuffed in Plastic Bottles in Indonesia

Disturbing footage of endangered parrots stuffed in plastic water bottles is proof that the smuggling of endangered birds occurs on an industrial scale with devastating consequences. Authorities discovered the birds on a ship docked in Indonesia’s Papua region. According to police within the town of Fakfak, the vessel’s crew reported hearing strange squawks and noises […]

Wildlife Trafficking Bust Sees Tusks, Crocodile Blood, Coral, and More Seized at UK Borders

Operation Thunder, a global drive against the trade in endangered wildlife by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), has resulted in an enormously successful seizure of large quantities of protected animal products. Criminal gangs and wildlife traffickers believed to be operating in over 100 countries were ambushed in an undercover sting operation led at UK […]

ASI Salutes Congress Members Committed to Ending the FDA’s Dog Testing Mandate

For far too long, man’s best friend has been subjected to harrowing abuse in laboratories worldwide, forced to test the safety of drugs, pesticides, medical devices, and other products. The Animal Survival International (formerly Political Animal Lobby) salutes government officials who are working to eliminate the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) outdated, oppressive, and brutal […]

Mamma Bear and Her Cub’s Tragic Final Moments Before Being Shot Dead

Disturbing video footage of a mother bear and her cub ruthlessly shot to death off the side of a Russian submarine in Kamchatka has outraged animal activists across the globe. The heart-breaking images showed the animals sitting on the nuclear submarine deck docked at a military port in the country’s Far East before being gunned […]

Florida’s Flying Squirrel Smuggling Operation Finally Grounded

Authorities have broken the back of a wildlife trafficking syndicate believed to be behind the illegal trapping and exploitation of thousands of flying squirrels over a three-year period. The flying squirrels – a protected species in Florida – were trapped with homemade wire cages and transported by vehicle from their natural habitat in Florida to […]

UK GOVERNMENT HID STUDIES CRITICAL OF BADGER CULLING!

Our petition asking the British Veterinary Association (BVA) to abandon its support for the pointless badger cull has received 9,144 signatures. Please sign our urgent petition right now to help pass the magic figure of 10,000 signatures. The lives of 65,000 innocent creatures are at stake. Earlier this year, the British government announced that it was […]

The EU’s Ugly Record of Buying and Selling Ivory

You’d expect the governments of the advanced countries that collectively call themselves the EU to be more aware when it comes to the ivory trade. Not so. Illegal ivory makes its way through legal EU ivory trade structures thanks to a system of loopholes. In 1989, the international trade in ivory was officially banned and […]

Scientists Think We Got German Measles From Animals

As the coronavirus pandemic shines a spotlight on zoonotic diseases, new research has found German measles has a family and they all live in animals Scientists used to believe that the virus causing German measles (aka rubella) was the only member of its genus, Rubivirus. But that just changed as combined research by the University […]

Rare Reptiles Are Traded on the Internet and Nobody’s Stopping It

Did you know that anyone can buy and sell highly endangered reptile species online and because of a lack of regulation, nothing can be done about it? An alarming new study Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade published in Nature Communications (September 2020) has revealed that both common and rare reptile species […]

Israel Becomes the First Nation to Ban Trade in Fur

In a giant victory for millions of wild and farmed animals, Israel has announced its plans to ban the fur trade, with a couple of exceptions. The plans were announced by Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel, who criticized the practice of buying and selling skin and fur in the fashion industry, calling it “immoral”. In […]

France Finally Bans the Use of Wild Animals in Circuses and Marine Parks

France is finally following a growing global movement to stop wild animals being exploited in the name of entertainment at circuses and marine parks. In what has been hailed as a breakthrough for animal rights across the world, the country passed laws in September 2020 that will protect animals in the following three ways: the […]

Pangolin purgatory! Chopped, diced and eaten to extinction!

The pangolin is the most trafficked animal in the world. These shy and vulnerable creatures are smoked out from their homes, beaten, tortured, and burnt alive. They need your help! The number of pangolins killed by poaching is devastating. Pangolins are trafficked, thousands at a time, for their scales which are boiled off their bodies […]

Baby Chimp’s Daring Rescue Marks a Watershed Moment in Congo’s Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking

A secret network of wildlife traffickers notorious for capturing, smuggling, and selling baby chimpanzees has been nabbed following a sting operation by a Congolese nature conservation organization in collaboration with local authorities. Chimpanzees are widely exploited across the globe, sold as pets, for bushmeat, or for their body parts. Despite restricting regulations and international bans, […]

Vultures are being poisoned into oblivion. Unless this is stopped, more and worse pandemics are a certainty!

A catastrophe is taking place in Africa as thousands of vultures die of poisoning, gravely impacting the environment, wildlife, and human health. We urgently need to raise $9,000 (£7,000) to build a special rescue vehicle so we can rush poison-stricken vultures for emergency medical treatment. Without treatment, the poor birds die within hours of being […]

Badgers being murdered in cold blood! Their only hope is that you speak up before it’s too late!

Across England, hundreds of thousands of badgers are wounded, dying or dead because politicians are putting lies before facts. The government says the cull is to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) from badgers to cows. But a recent study shows that cow-to-cow transmission of bTB is ten times more likely than badger-to-cow. Badger […]

Terrible Cruelty Revealed at French Mink Farm

Shocking footage reveals the nauseating horror of mink farming in France. Described by campaigners as something “from a horror film”, a mink with paralyzed back legs is photographed dragging itself across the wire of its cage to reach a few drops of water. Another mink is seen with hideous, infected eye wounds. All were are […]

Anthrax, botulism, and cholera! Their unique digestive systems can dissolve these horrific diseases and help keep us safe!

Please, can we count on your support today? It’s vitally important. Vultures are victims of poisoning and the evil bushmeat trade. Vulture feet, heads and other body parts are widely available in markets throughout Africa. Vulture brains are dried, ground up, and then smoked in cigarettes which supposedly give the users visions of the future. […]

National Wildlife Day – September 4: Wildlife Is Mother Nature’s Greatest Treasure; We Protect To Protect It!

Today is National Wildlife Day. A day we give voice to the voiceless and raise awareness for animal welfare. While the world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, we are behind the loss of 83% of all wild mammals. Researchers talk of ‘biological annihilation’ as studies reveal billions of wildlife populations […]

Wildlife trade HORROR! We must stop those who put a price tag on priceless species!

Over the past few weeks we have told you about creatures that don’t usually get any public attention, but all are vitally important to our planet. They are all currently being exterminated in a variety of horrific, cruel ways. Without your help, they will soon vanish from this world entirely. Sophisticated criminal networks are driving […]

Hypocrisy Hails as the EU Completely Misses the Boat on Elephant Protection

As many as 35,000 elephants are massacred each year in Africa – the brutal murders of these iconic giants driven by an insatiable demand for ivory. Today Africa is home to just 415,000 African elephants – a sobering 30% drop in the last decade and down from 10 million a century ago. Never before has […]

WICKED SNARES kill giraffes for food and tourist trinkets!

The evil bushmeat trade is driving giraffes to extinction. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), giraffe numbers in Africa have fallen by a staggering 48 per cent in the past 30 years, in what is being called a “silent extinction.” These shy, gentle and graceful creatures are butchered for the […]

Anatolian water frogs

We recently exposed how millions of frogs across the globe are being tortured, maimed, and killed. Our investigations led us to the despicable water frog massacres in Turkey so diners can eat frogs legs. Anatolian water frogs are being EATEN TO EXTINCTION! But with your support today, Gloria, we have an opportunity to head this […]

Rhino Horn Among Quack Health Remedies Touted to Cure COVID-19

As the coronavirus takes a massive toll on humanity, one would assume that humankind has learned their lesson and stopped using animal body parts like rhino horn in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). If only that were true. The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), working to expose trade in illicit goods, has discovered images of the […]

Butchered for bushmeat, tortured for phony medicines and exploited for fetish beliefs…

Royal pythons are being wiped out for the pet trade. Imagine being trapped inside a tiny glass tank for the rest of your days. Would you call this a life? Royal pythons are suffering. It’s time to end this abhorrent cruelty! Royal pythons, also known as Ball pythons, are not just traded as pets. They […]

Key Player in the West African Ivory Cartel Has Been Arrested in Mombasa

As the future of our planet’s most iconic species is called into question, ASI has hailed the arrest of alleged ivory poaching kingpin Mansur Mohamed Surur and congratulated authorities involved in the fight against wildlife crime syndicates. Surur is believed to be part of an international organized network involved in the ruthless killing of more than […]

Scientists LINK barbaric trade in gentle pangolins to Covid-19 pandemic!

We have told you before about the horrific international trade that is pushing pangolins to the brink of extinction and spreading deadly diseases to humans. We drew attention to the danger of pangolin-human disease transmission in April last year, well before the corona crisis began. The authorities refused to listen and the result is that […]

ASI Calls on an Infinite Ban on the Fur Trade as the Coronavirus Rips Through Mink Farms

One million innocent creatures slaughtered in a matter of a few weeks. Yes, you read that right – ONE MILLION. Brutally butchered because humans decided fur coats were important during a global pandemic that ironically manifested from animal cruelty. Wake up! It’s 2020… you don’t need to skin an animal for a jacket. Fur farms […]

Elephant Poaching Increasing Across Africa

Despite a ban on the international trade in ivory, tens of thousands of elephants are still butchered mercilessly each year for their tusks. An alarming new report has revealed that the wave of poaching ivory has worsened since 2011 across most of the African continent. According to a recent publication in the Scientific Reports journal, […]

Nagaland Dog Meat: Animal Rights Groups Hail Ban as ‘Major Turning Point’

The Indian state of Nagaland has banned the import, trading and sale of dog meat, in a move celebrated by animal rights activists. The north-east state’s government announced the ban following a sustained campaign by animal welfare groups. They hailed the decision as a “major turning point” in ending cruelty to dogs in India. But […]

MASS TORTURE!

Right now, as you read this, billions of frogs across the world are being tortured, maimed, and killed. Stolen from the wild, they die in pain. It is estimated that in Asia alone, between 180 million and a billion frogs are currently stolen each year for use in traditional ‘medicine’. In Laos, tiny rice paddy […]

South African Wildlife Under Government Assault, Humans Under Threat

Amid a global pandemic, when the dangers of eating wildlife have never been more apparent, South Africa plans to declare an outrageous legislation that requires urgent intervention. Wildlife will no longer be treated as living beings, only commodities valued for nothing but livestock and meat. This is according to a shocking revision to the Meat […]

Serial Killers and Trophy Hunters: When the Power To Cause Pain Is the Only Power That Matters

What kind of person enjoys taking another living being’s life – and doing it over and over again? Serial killing and trophy hunting are terrifyingly similar, as an environmental activist and author Eduardo Goncalves, points out in his new book, Trophy Hunters Exposed. When police raided the home of notorious serial killer Ed Gein he […]

China’s Ban on Pangolin Scales for Medicinal Use Is the Tip of the Iceberg

In breaking news, China has raised the protection of pangolins by removing their scales from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine. The decision comes after the country’s State Forestry and Grassland Administration raised the protected status of pangolins to the highest level, with immediate effect. While it is […]

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