John,

6 million donkeys are brutally slaughtered every single year to fuel a horrifying global trade in their skins – all to produce a product called "ejiao," falsely marketed as a miracle cure.

These sweet creatures – as intelligent as dogs and dolphins! – are crammed into trucks, then dragged by their ears and tails before being bludgeoned with sledgehammers while other donkeys look on in terror.

It’s senseless cruelty and major airlines are helping drive up demand by shipping their skins around the world.

But the tide is shifting. Emirates Airlines just BANNED these shipments and now we’re about to launch a fierce campaign to turn one airline’s bold move into a global shift!

With all of us chipping in a little, we could turn up the heat on airline CEOs with brand-shaming ads, launch media-grabbing stunts during peak travel months, brief journalists to splash this all over the media – then keep going to stop more corporations profiting from animal exploitation.

Without airlines, this brutal trade would take a major hit. Let’s make it happen. Can you chip in to save the donkeys?

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Criminals steal donkeys from families across Africa, who rely on these faithful creatures for their livelihoods, before subjecting them to a torturous death.

And it’s the same sophisticated organized crime networks trafficking illegal wildlife products, arms, and drugs that rely on airlines to keep shipping bloody donkey skins around the world so they can keep profiting from this misery.

If that wasn’t bad enough, airlines are creating a serious biosecurity risk because donkey skins can carry parasites and pathogens that, once airborne, can spread across continents in hours.

Meanwhile, the families who depended on their donkeys for survival lost their only source of transport, water, or farming power – pushing them deeper into poverty. 

Emirates Airlines just adopted a zero tolerance policy and banned donkey skin shipments – exposing the hidden dangers of this trade for public health. Now, it’s time for Qatar Airways, Turkish Cargo, and others to follow suit.

If we can urgently raise the funds, we could flood them with pressure while the spotlight is still on them, choosing from tactics like: 

• Launching a massive publicity push to expose airlines with journalist briefings, ads targeting key airline execs, and media-grabbing stunts;

• Buying billboard space at major airports, exposing the airlines involved in transporting skins;

• Flooding airline executives with thousands of messages;

• Increasing public pressure by working with social media creators to blast the truth about ejiao across the internet. 

Over 40,000 of us have signed a petition demanding airlines stop this brutal trade in donkey skin. With your support we could unleash a mega-campaign to make us impossible to ignore – and keep fighting to protect animals everywhere.

Will you chip in today to help power the fight to end the donkey skin trade for good?

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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the planet.