Wildlife traffickers are using Facebook to sell body parts of the
adorable, extinction-threatened pangolin. But Facebook is refusing to take
action.

Can you chip in
$1
to call out executives with ads on their own platform and force them to
protect pangolins?

[1]Little pangolin


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John,

The adorable pangolin has been around for 80 million years -- it's
survived everything you can imagine. But now poachers are pushing it
toward extinction.

And Facebook is helping!

Investigators just discovered that a simple multi-language search on
Facebook turns up listing after listing for pangolin parts. It's against
Facebook's rules but it isn't doing anything about it.

So let's make this a massive headache until they do. We already have a
petition with over 216,000 signers -- if enough of us chip in
$1
we can completely blanket Facebook with ads, even targeting execs and
employees, until they can't ignore it anymore. Can you help?



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[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll donate
$1
to help protect pangolins

Pangolins aren't as well known as elephants or rhinos, but they're
actually more trafficked than either of them -- up to 2.7 million
pangolins a year are murdered for their meat and scales, which are used in
some traditional medicine.

It's not only tragic, it's dangerous -- pangolins may be connected to the
Covid-19 outbreak, and scientists say they likely host other coronaviruses
that could make the leap to humans.

So an ancient, highly threatened species with links to coronaviruses is
being openly sold by traffickers on Facebook. The platform's community
standards already ban this -- but apparently we're going to need to hold
their feet to the fire for them to actually enforce it.

And the best way will be to make sure they can't miss our campaign. Every
US$1 means we can show it to almost 100 people -- can you chip in
$1
to make Facebook take notice?



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to help protect pangolins

Facebook is supposed to be about connecting people, and so many of us use
it to catch up with friends or family. It's horrifying that others are
taking advantage of the same structures to profit from the murder of
nearly-extinct animals. We need to tell Facebook there's no place for this
on our social media sites.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Danny and the team at SumOfUs



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Illegal trade in pangolins keeps growing as criminal networks expand
National Geographic. 11 February 2020.
[ [link removed] ]Facebook allowing pangolin sales
Tech Transparency Project. 6 May 2020.

 

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