Starving to death

Climate changes are here and the ice is melting. The polar bear is literally on thin ice.

After starving in the summer with berries and carrion, the polar bears gain their body fat by hunting seals on the sea ice in the winter. But due to a warmer climate the sea ice extent and the thickness is reduced, as well as the period of maximum ice extent gets shorter year after year.

This results in less time for the polar bears to hunt and less time to restore their body condition to a non-critical level.

You can do something: Reduce your CO2 consumption by eating less meat, turn off electrical devices, and use a bike or public transport more often instead of a car.

Climatoon to make a better world…

Dance till you die

You hear the drums and the beat, and then you see the dancing feet.

A big beautiful Bear,
taken by a poacher when it was a cub,
the canine teeth are either filed down or broken off,
pierced through the nose or lips,
without anaesthetic,
mistreated and in pain

…Well that’s the life of a dancing Bear

Dancing Bears were common in the Middle Ages, but are still found nowadays all over the world, mostly in Asia and Eastern Europe.

You can do something: Never ever give money to a bear tamer with a dancing Bear and don’t go see a Bear show.

A hungry turtle approaching its prey

…mmm yummi a jellyfish. Hey, wait that’s not a jellyfish – it’s a plastic bag!

More than 1 million plastic bags are used every minute, which means more than 500 billion plastic bags are used every year. And plastic bags have been used for over 40 years. You do the math … that’s a lot!

And guess what? Most of them are non-biodegradable and end up in the sea. This affects 267 marine species, 44 percent of all seabirds, and fatally affects over 1 million sea creatures per year.

You can do something: Stop using plastic bags –use a reusable bag instead.

Campaign: http://greenisthenewblack.dk/mywork

The Lifecycle of a plastic bag. In other words: why you should use a reusable bag instead…

Punished every day

All ‘tame’ Elephants are trained with bullhooks. Bullhooks are hooks attached to long sticks, which are used to beat and punish the Elephants, if they don’t do as they’re told. All Elephants you meet as a tourist are tamed and trained this way.

Many Elephants get severe wounds from the bullhooks. But in most Asian countries it is illegal to put an animal down, even if it is suffering and in great pain.

Around the age of 3 years Elephants are taken from their mothers and are pacified and held in the same position without food for days. The Elephant’s future owner gains their trust by being the first one to feed them after days of starvation.

You can do something: Stop riding Elephants on your holidays!

On drugs

Many tourists visit Tiger reserves and parks every year where they cuddle, hug and kiss them. But what they are not told is that the Tigers have been given medicine and sedatives to become a relaxed, soft and safe money-making attraction. Some Tigers have even had their claws and fangs removed.

In the last 70 years, three of the nine Tiger subspecies have become extinct. The remaining six subspecies all live in Asia where they are threatened by poaching and habitat loss.
The Amur tiger, previously known as the Siberian tiger, is the biggest of them all. The estimated number of wild Amur tigers is 400 – in Zoos there are approximately 600.

You can do something: Stop visiting Tiger reserves and parks in Asia!