Animals need your protection

Across the world, animals suffer unthinkable cruelty - but you can help protect them from harm.

Your support helps end cruelty, pure and simple. Are you with us?

£3 a month could support the recovery of rescued bears in one of our sanctuaries

A mahout steers an elephant in a show at a zoo in Thailand

£6 a month could help support vital campaigning work to end the lifelong torture of elephants in the tourist trade

Dolphins in captivity at Orlando SeaWorld

£8 a month could help fund our global campaign to end the cruelty of dolphin entertainment

Some animals are very young when they learn just how cruel people can be.

Baby orangutans cling so tightly to their mothers that poachers often resort to a machete to separate them. Then they're sold into a life of abuse.

Young elephants are easier to "train" - so the torture begins when they're small. Beatings, starvation and sleep deprivation make sure their wild spirits are utterly broken, just so tourists can ride their backs on holiday.

Where dogs are seen as a threat of rabies, age is no barrier to cruelty. Young and old, they can be dragged through the streets - poisoned, gassed or beaten to death.

But with your help, there's hope.

These are living, breathing creatures. They deserve so much better.