2024 Recap: Celebrating your wonderful achievements for animals
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You’ve worked tirelessly in 2024 to end the cruelty experienced by wild animals in the global wildlife trade and improve the lives of farm animals in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world.
Thank you for making a wonderful difference in the lives of so many animals! Here’s a heartwarming recap of just a few of your many achievements for animals in the past year:
Some of the many remarkable ways you’ve helped protect animals this year:
- Thanks to YOUR support, our partners at Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) successfully rescued 31 monkeys in Cirebon, Indonesia, making a significant leap in our joint mission to end the brutal ‘Dancing Monkeys’ trade for good.
- With YOUR support, World Animal Protection joined other animal groups from across Aotearoa New Zealand to hand in the parliamentary petition signed by 57,000 people demanding the Government protects the world-leading ban on cruel live exports by sea.
- YOU supported 10 new Wildlife Heritage Areas to join our programme, helping local communities to protect wild animals like gorillas in Rwanda or orangutans in Indonesia in their natural environment, and set a benchmark for responsible tourism.
31 macaques rescued
31 'dancing monkeys’ rescued from Indonesia's cruel Topeng Monyet trade.
- By investigating the connection between the annual Taiji dolphin hunts in Japan and the tourism industry, YOU shone a light on how global travel companies are selling tickets to venues linked to this inhumane hunt and are fuelling this cruelty.
- Thanks to YOUR support, Queensland's popular tourist venue, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, stopped selling koala cuddles, meaning over a hundred captive koalas at their venue will finally be free from stressful human/koala direct encounters.
Taiji dolphin hunt exposed
The tourism industry is profiting from the cruel Taiji dolphin hunts.
No more koala cuddles
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, pulled the plug on koala cuddles.
- YOU gave animals a voice by petitioning the Thai Government to stop captive elephant breeding for profit. And lobbying global travel companies TUI and GetYourGuide to stop selling tickets to cruel wildlife attractions.
- YOU helped care for bears in our partner sanctuaries and helped another elephant camp to transition to become elephant-friendly.
- Tapirs, anteaters and a jaguar injured by the man-made fires in Brazil were rescued and rehabilitated thanks to YOU and our partners, Onçafari Association and Instituto Tamanduá.
172,000 speak out
26 countries united to call on Thailand Government to end elephant exploitation.
You did it all and more for farm animals and wildlife in the past year and these massive milestones simply wouldn’t have been possible without your unwavering support. On behalf of animals everywhere, thank you.
Together, we’ve achieved so much for animals. With you by our side in 2025, we’ll achieve even more for these sentient beings.
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Take action today by signing our petitions and pledging to protect wildlife and farm animals.
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Every animal deserves a life worth living – from captive lions used for trophy hunting to mother pigs in cages in factory farms.