What will the Active Response team do?
By having a dedicated response team incorporating researcher and investigator roles, we will increase our capacity to help animals. We will be able to collect more evidence of animal suffering, licence breaches and other issues at captive facilities, to log with local authorities. Action can be taken sooner to help animals and hold businesses to account. This will contribute overall to our advocacy work and campaigns to regulate and restrict captive situations which harm animals.
This work will also give us further evidence to expose animal suffering failings in captive facilities such as zoos, aquariums, circuses and the exotic pet trade. The information we collect can be used in our advocacy and public awareness work. It will give us more evidence and data to supply to authorities such as councils, government bodies and other authorities to END animal exploitation.
Whether they be a snake confined to a plastic box in a mobile zoo, a horse forced to perform circus tricks, a fish kidnapped from the wild to stock an aquarium or an owl tethered for long hours at a falconry centre; thousands of animals are currently suffering in captivity.
Having a dedicated response team will enable us to act in a timely and thorough way to investigate reports of animal abuse in captivity, as well as undertake detailed research regarding the exploitation of animals.
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