By: Victoria What We Can Do There are many aspects that play into the role of the extinction of Southern Resident Orcas, all of which humans can be to blame. One of the main sources of prey for these Orcas is the Chinook Salmon, native to the Pacific. Oceanic pollution caused by sewer drainage is …
By: Ella The egg/meat/leather industries have displayed strong growth over the past decades due to rising demand for eggs, meat, and leather products. The reality is, those industries are one of the main causes of climate change. Moreover, they are able to potentially cause more viruses and antibiotic resistance through their impact on the animals. …
By: Klara When most people think of deadly zoonotic diseases, they assume they’re the cause of the illegal wildlife trade, but actually it’s legal trade that we need to worry about. In 2019, $4.3 Billion of legal wildlife were imported to the US. That’s approximately 200 million live animals. Because the US doesn’t have any …
By: Presley Legal wildlife trade, the commerce of products from non-domesticated (wild) animals, oras the Center for Disease Control called it, “disease transmission mechanisms that notonly cause human disease outbreaks but also threaten livestock, international trade,rural livelihoods, native wildlife populations, and the health of ecosystems.” Legal wildlife trade is still destructive and unsustainable, even if …
By: Victoria In places around the globe, small groups of people are able to make a change in their environment by using their ability to speak out for justice. No matter the size of the group of people or the size of the impact their fight will make, change is happening everywhere and we just …