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Our reports are organised by campaign and listed in order from newest to oldest.
Wildlife. Not Entertainers
From wild animal selfies to swimming with dolphins and elephant riding to petting lion cubs and taking tiger selfies, cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry is rampant.
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Behind the smile: The multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry
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The Show Can't Go On: The suffering of captive wild animals at zoos and aquariums linked to WAZA
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The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity: The lives of captive marine mammals are impoverished
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Associated With Cruelty: How travel trade associations are ignoring wild animal abuse
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Wildlife Abusement Parks: Wildlife entertainment tourism in Bali, Limbok and Gili Trawangan
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A Close Up On Cruelty: The harmful impact of wildlife selfies in the Amazon
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Taken For a Ride: The conditions for elephants used in tourism in Asia
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Tiger Selfies Exposed: A portrait of Thailand’s tiger entertainment industry
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The Cayman Turtle Farm: A continued case for change
Change for Chickens
Too often, the reality behind the world’s favourite meat is unacceptable suffering - and the ones supporting this suffering are fast food giants like KFC, Burger King, and McDonald's.
- Valuing higher welfare chicken: Making the financial case for more humane chicken production
- The Pecking Order: How leading global fast-food companies are failing the chickens their businesses depend on
- The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare Report: (BBFAW) A leading global measure of farm animal welfare
- Exposing the secret suffering of chickens farmed for meat: Demand for chicken meat continues to rise, worsening their suffering
Wildlife. Not Medicine
The demand for traditional Asian medicine is threatening wildlife populations around the world. From big cat farms to pangolin poaching, iconic animals are being pushed to the bring of extinction to fuel a scientifically unproven practice.
- Trading Cruelty: How big cat farming fuels the traditional Asian medicine industry
- Suffering at Scale: Invesitgating pangolin poaching in Hassam, India
- Uncovering a Secret Slaughter: Suriname's jaguar trade exposed
- Unbearable: A deeper look at the international bear bile trade
Raise Pigs Right
Millions of pigs around the world are raised on cruel factory farms that confine them to cages and barren environments, mutilate piglets to prevent fighting in overcrowded spaces, and break their spirits by not allowing them to express their natural behaviours.
- Pork and the Superbug Crisis: How higher welfare farming is better for pigs and people
- The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare Report: (BBFAW) A leading global measure of farm animal welfare
- A Pig's Tale: Exposing the facts of factory farming
Wildlife. Not Pets
Each year, millions of wild animals are captured from their natural habitats or born into captivity, just to become pets. Our houses are not suitable homes for a wild animal.
- The 'Big 5' and 'Little 5' Report: Exploiting Africa's wildlife
- Otters as Pets in Southeast Asia: A social media craze is fueling otters' demise
- Wild at Heart: The hidden cruelty behind the exotic pet trade of african grey parrots
Sea Change
A staggering 640,000 tons of abandoned fishing gear (ghost gear) is left in our oceans each year. This gear traps, mutilates, and kills hundreds of thousands of animals annually.
- Ghosts Beneath the Waves (2nd Edition): Ghost gear’s catastrophic impact on our oceans, and the urgent action needed from industry
- Ghosts Beneath the Waves (1st Edition): Ghost gear’s catastrophic impact on our oceans, and the urgent action needed from industry
- Fishing's Phantom Menace: How ghost fishing gear is endangering our sea life
