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Itâs time for YouTube to stop promoting animal abuse
Some 2,000 videos have been found on YouTube in which animals were harmed for entertainment or suffered pain and death.
A snake about to attack kittens in a staged animal rescue. Credit: Lady Freethinker/YouTube Screenshot
The scene is shocking: a tiny puppy wriggling desperately against the coiled grip of a pythonâs deadly squeeze, as fellow puppies look on in terror. In a cinematic ending, a man arrives just in time to âsaveâ the squealing puppy from the snakeâs crushing grasp. This might sound like a happy ending to a terrifying ordeal, but in reality, the whole life-threatening situation was staged for a monetized YouTube videoâone with more than 1.6 million views and 7,200 likes.
Two young inhabitants of Pasay cemetery with their dog. Photograph: Aaron Gekoski/Lady Freethinker
In a project for the Lady Freethinker NGO, photographer Aaron âBertieâ Gekoski has teamed up with Ashley Fruno, founder of Pasay Pups, to document the impact of poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic on people and pets living in public cemeteries in Pasay, the Philippines
by LexTalamo.PhotographsbyAaronGekoski
Mon 17 May 2021 02.30 EDT
In the photograph, a skeletal white dog stands on top of a tomb, his spiky vertebrae sharply visible through his ghostly fur. His jutting ribs and pelvic bones match the monotone of grey cemetery aisles and a prominent white cross in the background.
Trophy hunters may soon slaughter up to
500 endangered African elephants as Zimbabwe prepares to sell hunting licenses to legally kill these majestic creatures.
Selling “rights” to kill the endangered elephants to hunters who pay between
$10,000 and $70,000 to participate, this horrifying plan is part of an effort to recoup pandemic-related tourism revenue losses. But
why should defenseless elephants die for profit?
Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority claims the country’s “excessive” elephant population is responsible for violent encounters with humans, according to
Bloomberg. But the government announced its intentions to permit the hunts just weeks after a new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment determined that