Animal advocacy update: Lobbying for better laws for Australian animals, investigating the pangolin trade on TikTok and more

From lobbying for stronger protections to showing up at key events across Australia, your compassion is the spark behind every action we take. Here’s some of the wonderful behind-the-scenes work you recently made possible:

Over two days in Canberra, our Country Director, Ben Pearson, and Head of Campaigns, Suzanne Milthorpe, attended 17 meetings with MPs, Senators, Ministers, and Departmental officials to lobby for better laws to protect Australian animals.

You helped us investigate and research traders in Togo, Africa using TikTok to advertise and sell dead endangered wild animals - including white-bellied pangolins.

And if that weren’t enough, you helped us feature your work to protect crocodiles from the global wildlife trade for luxury fashion in The Monthly and the 7AM podcast.

You helped conduct interviews with more than 1550 households across 12 communities bordering Kruger National Park in South Africa. We found most community members living near the Park support humane, wildlife-friendly conservation for lions as opposed to trophy hunting.

Our Country Director also joined the panel at the 'Hope In Action: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Travel' forum hosted by World Expeditions to talk about the ‘crush’ process; a practice designed to break the spirit of an elephant so it can be forced into performing for tourists.