The adorable pangolin has been around for 80 million years --
it's survived everything you can imagine. But now poachers
are pushing it toward extinction.
And Facebook is helping!
Investigators just discovered that a simple multi-language search
on Facebook turns up listing after listing for pangolin parts. It's
against Facebook's rules but it isn't doing anything about it.
So let's make this a massive headache until they do. We
already have a petition with over 216,000 signers -- if enough of us
chip in $1 we can completely blanket Facebook with ads,
even targeting execs and employees, until they can't ignore it
anymore. Can you help?
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your
card.
Yes,
I'll donate $1 to help protect pangolins
Pangolins aren't as well known as elephants or rhinos, but
they're actually more trafficked than either of them -- up to 2.7
million pangolins a year are murdered for their meat and scales,
which are used in some traditional medicine.
It's not only tragic, it's dangerous -- pangolins may be
connected to the Covid-19 outbreak, and scientists say they likely
host other coronaviruses that could make the leap to humans.
So an ancient, highly threatened species with links to
coronaviruses is being openly sold by traffickers on
Facebook. The platform's community standards already ban
this -- but apparently we're going to need to hold their
feet to the fire for them to actually enforce it.
And the best way will be to make sure they can't miss our
campaign. Every US$1 means we can show it to almost 100 people --
can you chip in $1 to make Facebook take notice?
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your
card.
Yes,
I'll donate $1 to help protect pangolins
Facebook is supposed to be about connecting people, and so many
of us use it to catch up with friends or family. It's horrifying
that others are taking advantage of the same structures to profit
from the murder of nearly-extinct animals. We need to tell Facebook
there's no place for this on our social media sites.
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your
card.
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