Donate £3 a month
…and you could help our work putting pressure on governments and world leaders to end the global wildlife trade, and keep tigers in the wild where they belong.
Protect wild animals from illegal trade
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Donate £6 a month
…and you could help raise awareness of herbal and synthetic alternatives to bear bile for traditional medicine, and save bears from a life of suffering.
Donate £10 a month
…and you could help expose the sources of wildlife exploitation and illegal trade, fighting to protect pangolins and their habitats.
Wild animals belong in the wild, not in cages, chains or captivity
No wild animal should be confined, traded, and exploited for profit.
They should be free to roam the wide-open spaces, ancient forests and vast oceans that are their homes. Not live behind bars or in cramped cages, stripped of everything that makes them who they are. They deserve lives shaped by nature, not suffering imposed by humans.
Yet around the world, millions of wild animals are stolen from the wild or bred in captivity, locked away and reduced to commodities. They are bought, sold, farmed and exploited in the name of profit.
We’re fighting to end this cruelty. And with your help, we can.
A hidden industry built on suffering
Bears are taken from the wild as cubs and confined to tiny metal cages. No space to even turn around, they are subjected to repeated, agonising bile extractions. Day after day, year after year, they live in fear and pain, all for products like tonics, wine and traditional medicines. All completely unnecessary.
Pangolins, the world’s most trafficked mammal, are brutally slaughtered to meet demand for their meat and for their scales, falsely believed to have medicinal value. Despite being protected under national and international law, their populations are collapsing at an alarming rate.
Tigers and lions are killed and traded for their body parts, turned into medicines, jewellery, clothing or ornaments. Others spend their lives behind bars, bred solely to be exploited when their bodies are deemed profitable.
This cruelty is systematic, deliberate and entirely preventable.
Why regular giving matters
Ending wildlife exploitation doesn’t happen overnight. It takes sustained pressure, long term rescue and rehabilitation, and ongoing work to shut down illegal breeding, trafficking and trade.
Your regular gift helps to:
- Rescue animals from captivity and exploitation at the hands of traffickers.
- Support lifetime care and rehabilitation for animals who can never return to the wild
- Tackle wildlife trade at its source by cutting demand and closing loopholes
- Push for permanent change through education, enforcement and international advocacy
Most importantly, your support allows us to act before more animals are taken, bred or killed. Their lives taken for greed.
Choose compassion — every single month
Wild animals feel fear. They feel pain. They experience stress, suffering and loss. They are not commodities. They are not ingredients. And they are not ours to exploit.
By becoming a regular giver, you stand up for animals who cannot speak for themselves — and help build a world where bears are no longer caged for bile, pangolins are no longer slaughtered for scales, and tigers are no longer bred to be traded.
Your monthly gift gives consistency, protection and hope.
Because freedom should never be a luxury. And no wild animal should have to suffer for profit.
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We’re respected for our knowledge and expertise. And we’re building a movement of millions of people determined to end animal cruelty and suffering.
Read more about our work, how we are run and how your money is spent.
We will use your donation where the need is greatest to protect animals, like those featured in this appeal, from cruelty and suffering.
Image credits: Tiger: Emi Kondo | Bear:Tim Gerard Barker | Pangolin in the cage: Shutterstock/Arief Budi Kusuma