Colouring-in at Cruelty Free Festival
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Last weekend, the team from World Animal Protection Australia attended the Cruelty Free Festival in Sydney.
It was a fantastic opportunity to meet so many animal lovers and talk about our latest work to stop cruel wildlife selfies in the Amazon.
The festival had a packed program including talks, live music, a raffle, and delicious food stalls.
More than 120 people stopped by to sign our Wildlife Selfie Code pledging to filter cruelty out of wildlife selfies.
To help raise awareness of sloths’ suffering for selfies, our friends at Marini Ferlazzo drew a stunning sloth illustration. We took the sloth along to the festival so fellow animal lovers could help us give her a splash of colour. And the end result is stunning.
Around the world, more than 200,000 people have signed our Wildlife Selfie Code over the past month pledging to never take a photo with a wild animal that is being held captive, restrained, baited, or presented to them for direct contact.
That’s a huge win for wild animals.
This global support helped us secured another positive meeting with Instagram about the issue. Watch this space to find out how we’re continuing to protect wild animals used as photo props.
The 2017 Cruelty Free Festival was a celebration of the inspiring individuals, organisations, and ethical businesses dedicated to making the world a better place for animals. See you next year!
More than 120 people stopped by to sign our Wildlife Selfie Code pledging to filter cruelty out of wildlife selfies.
Our wildlife work
Around the world, wild animals are being exploited. They’re hunted down, trapped and farmed in captivity, all to be sold and abused for entertainment, medicine, fashion, pets and products.
Our work
We're working in Australia and around the world to end the needless suffering of animals by inspiring people to change animals’ lives for the better.