#Conservation of nature and environment#Animal welfare, animal ethics and animal rights
About the organization
Pro Wildlife combines international animal, nature and species protection. In Germany, at EU level and worldwide, Pro Wildlife works to improve laws for the protection of wild animals threatened by poaching, hunting, animal trade and habitat destruction.
We research and document abuses, write studies and statements, develop solutions and negotiate with decision-makers in Germany, the EU and at international conventions. Together with our local partners, we rescue victims of poaching and wildlife trafficking and carry out educational work to stop the exploitation of wild animals.
Our mission is to preserve biodiversity - from the African elephant to the dwarf chameleon.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Why we fund
The wildlife trade not only threatens biodiversity, but also human health.
Germany is the largest importer and sales market for live wild animals and wild animal products in the EU.
In its 2013 coalition agreement, the German government committed to, among other things, regulating the trade in wild animals uniformly across the country and banning the import of wild-caught animals into the EU. But little has happened since then.
We now hope that words will be followed by deeds and that these agreements will be implemented as quickly as possible.
In this context, it is important to also help less popular animal species to receive more attention and protection, to put animal welfare issues that have long fallen by the wayside back on the agenda and to participate in political committees.
For this reason, we support the Pro Wildlife campaign and want to help ensure that the "delicacy" of frogs' legs soon disappears from menus everywhere.
It is important to us that all natural habitats are preserved and protected. This includes the complex marine ecosystems. Marine and climate protection belong together. With their natural ability to store carbon dioxide and heat, the world's oceans offer important protection against climate change. But only intact ecosystems have the necessary resilience to counter the consequences of climate change.
Whale and dolphin hunting, overfishing, marine littering - these dangers can only be combated through international agreements such as the International Whaling Commission (IWC), public pressure and international cooperation.
We support the valuable and persistent work of Pro Wildlife e.V. so that the protection of the world's oceans can succeed in the long term and sustainably!
PROJECT DETAILS
What we fund
Campaign against the international frog leg trade
The frog leg trade is a forgotten animal & species conservation issue: the EU still imports more than 4,000 tons of frog legs from Indonesia every year - that's 84-200 million frogs!
With funding from the Stiftung Zukunftjetzt!, Pro Wildlife is bringing the dramatic consequences of the frog leg trade back into the consciousness of the public and international decision-makers.
An EU-wide campaign will educate politicians, restaurants, chefs and consumers about the problems of frog leg consumption. Pro Wildlife will put the current extent of the trade on the agenda in political bodies.
At the next International Conference on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Pro Wildlife will hold its own events and working groups to raise awareness of the dramatic consequences of the frog leg trade for the species themselves, but also for their habitat.
The situation for dolphins and small cetaceans is dramatic: around 100,000 unprotected small marine mammals are still hunted every year. In addition, Norway and Japan in particular are still engaged in commercial whaling.
Almost two thirds of the global subsidies for fisheries, estimated at almost 30 billion euros, support measures that further fuel overfishing of the oceans. Sharks and rays, which play a key role in the health of the oceans, are particularly affected by overfishing.
The marine conservation campaign that we support shows politicians and the public the abuses in fisheries policy and their consequences. Pro Wildlife supports protection measures for dolphins and small cetaceans with well-founded studies and strengthens the position against commercial whaling.
Pro Wildlife experts also actively participate in the International Whaling Conference (IWC) and the ICCAT fisheries convention to stop the hunting of marine mammals and the overfishing of our oceans.
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
