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Dear John,
This World Animal Day, we’re taking a look at the different ways animals are exploited in the animal entertainment industry, and highlighting how you can help them today!
Throughout this week will be sharing petitions, our new video, new blogs, and lots more so we can get the message out there that keeping animals in captivity is cruel and archaic. Join us this week and share our latest message and sign our petitions.
In our most recent blog, we shine a light on the different industries that make up the animal entertainment sector, and how animals are used in each instance.
Our new video takes you through the reality many animals face day in, day out, and exposes the incredible animal cruelty taking place in the name of entertainment.
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“Every day she circles her tank, desperate to venture vast distances and migrate through ocean corridors. Every day, she fails to find a way to freedom, locked in a body of water that is not her home. People stare through the glass at her each day. She has seen so many faces, and heard so many sounds, but none of them make her feel safe. She longs for peace. For solitude in the tranquility of the ocean she should be free to roam.”
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Lulu is an 80 year old green sea turtle who has been in captivity almost her entire life. Plucked from the wild as a baby, she is one of the oldest and largest turtles in captivity today, and has suffered from her incredibly limited environment for decades.
Enough is enough. Lulu deserves to spend her retirement in a sanctuary, not an aquarium built for profit.
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We, at Freedom for Animals, are calling on our dedicated supporters to help free Lulu and her partner Gulliver, by signing and sharing the petition created by our friends at Close Sealife below.
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Zoos, aquariums, circuses, mobile zoos and bird of prey centres are all equally complicit in animal suffering and many will claim they work to raise conservation awareness and avoid species extinction, but in reality they are businesses built to profit from paying visitors interacting with the animals.
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“Looking up at the sky, she feels the urge to feel the wind beneath her wings, the air in her face, the true exhilaration of flight. Every bone in her body was designed for it. For freedom. So she breathes in, and out, and takes off. Crash! She tumbles to the floor, her leg sore and throbbing. She remembers. She cannot take off and soar through the sky any longer. She is tied down. There is no escape.”
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Liberty is a bald eagle held captive at a bird of prey centre in the UK. She is only able to fly when her captors deem it so, and when there are paying visitors to witness the display. Viewed as a prop for entertainment, not the incredible individual she truly is, she must suffer this torment every day for the rest of her life. No animal deserves such torture. No bird should be chained and denied their right to flight.
Sadly, Liberty is one of thousands of animals subjected to tremendous suffering in the name of human entertainment.
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Captive animals are denied their freedom to roam and explore wild natural surroundings, and suffer mental and physical distress as a result. Stereotypies such as pacing, self-mutilation and head shaking are rife, and joint and skeletal issues are seen across many species in zoo and circus environments.
This cruelty is unacceptable, and we must fight to end captivity for all animals.
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Ways you can take action for animals this World Animal Day
This World Animal Day, please pledge your support and click the links below to help animals.
- Take action by signing and sharing the petition to free Lulu the sea turtle set up by the Close Sealife campaign
- Share our World Animal Day blog and our video across your social media
- Check out our other petitions and actions on our website
- Donate to help futher our campaign work to end to the captivity of animals
- Adopt an animal and help fuel the fight for animals freedom
- Become a Freedom Champion and set up a monthly gift to help us better plan for our future campaigns
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Thank you for your continued support to end the explitation of animals!
For the animals,
Dr Andrew Kelly
Director
Freedom for Animals
P.S. Together we can achieve freedom for animals! Donate today to help further our campaigns for the rest of 2022!
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