World Animal Protection takes a grim view of the recent photoshoot of photographer, Julia Buruleva, in Amer Fort in Jaipur in Rajasthan, that involved painting an elephant wholly in pink. This incident, yet again highlights the rampant abuse of captive elephants in Jaipur in Amer Fort and Haathi Gaon to cater to tourist whims and fancies. There is no excuse to paint an elephant for a photoshoot because this denigrates the natural state of the animal. Elephants are wild creatures that ought to live in the wild and not be exploited in captivity. End elephant rides now. There is no pride in elephant rides. Wildlife belongs in the wild.
Photograph : Julia Buruleva/Brut. India
🚫 Live Lamb Cutting is NOT Shearing 🐑 Did you know most of the world’s wool in fashion comes from Australia, where lambs are still subjected to live lamb cutting? Every cut inflicts pain, trauma, and long-lasting wounds!
They hit him in the head with a soda bottle… and laughed as Baloo tried to drink it. 💔
For 25 years, this gentle Bear has endured unimaginable cruelty ~ tourists throwing objects at him, feeding him alcohol and cookies, and humiliating him for their ‘entertainment’.
Baloo didn’t choose this life, but we can choose to change it. @MoveTheWorld have been fighting tirelessly to rescue him and bring him to one of their partner sanctuaries, where he will finally be safe, cared for, and free from abuse ~ forever. 🐻 ❤️🩹.
Your support can help make this a reality. Every donation brings Baloo ~ and animals like him ~ closer to the freedom and dignity they deserve.
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Tourists, #DontBuyATicket 🎟️🚫! #FreeBaloo
🎦 Credit: @MoveTheWorld.
💔 The current Taiji dolphin slaughter season recently ended as of Feb. 28, 2026, leaving a devastating toll: 393 dead, 84 taken for captivity.
Of the animals taken, 81 were bottlenose dolphins, 2 were short-finned pilot whales, and 1 was a rough-toothed dolphin. Among those slaughtered, 134 were striped dolphins, 68 were Risso’s dolphins, 128 were melon-headed whales, and 61 were short-finned pilot whales. 🐬💔
The 84 dolphins captured endured extreme trauma during the brutal hunt and will now spend the rest of their lives in tiny tanks, forced to perform tricks for tourists instead of swimming free in the wild.
The travel industry should—and could—take a stand by removing venues that profit from these hunts through captive dolphins. Travelers can help too: never support attractions that keep dolphins in captivity.
Dolphins are intelligent, social, and deserve freedom, not a life of terror and exploitation. We must keep exposing this cruelty and fight for a world where dolphins live safe, wild, and free. 🌊🧡
📊 Estimated numbers sourced from the International Marine Mammal Project, thanks to Kunito Seko and Megumi Matsudo
Brittany Ferries is transporting baby calves - and no one seems to care 🐄🍼
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Farewell, dear Rada 🐻💚
We’re saying goodbye to Rada, who passed away at 34. Despite chronic health issues—including arthritis, spinal degeneration and a malignant skin tumour—she continued to enjoy life at BEAR SANCTUARY Belitsa for many years.
The dogs running the Iditarod just want the same love, comfort, and peace any dog wants. But instead, they’re forced to push their bodies past their limits in the grueling cold for days on end.
As an Iranian, I am asking @CNN
these are the faces of over 240 Iranian children and teenagers brutally killed by the Islamic Republic in the streets just 2 months ago.
Where were your headlines?
Why didn’t the world see this?
#Iran#IranRevolution2026
In southern Lebanon, many families were forced to leave their homes during recent unrest, and sadly some pets and stray animals were left behind.
While most people were trying to find safety, one man chose to stay and help the animals that had nowhere to go.
Hussein Hamza has been rescuing dogs and caring for them at his shelter, which now houses more than 200 animals. He provides them with food, water, and a safe place to stay.
Hamza also travels to nearby towns and villages, searching for animals that were abandoned and bringing them back to safety.
With the help of online supporters who donate food and supplies, he continues to care for the growing number of dogs depending on him.
His story is a powerful reminder that compassion can still shine even in the most difficult times. 🐾
Two little boys, standing side-by-side, dressed in their best clothes with the yellow stars pinned to their chests. They look directly at the camera. It is February 1944, in the Kovno Ghetto, Lithuania. This is a portrait of brothers, a moment frozen in time where they are simply children, unaware of the shadow looming over them.
One month after this photo was taken, those two boys were gone.
They were deported to the Majdanek concentration camp. Like millions of others, they were pulled from the safety of their home, separated from the simple joys of childhood, and thrust into a world of machinery designed for death.
They didn’t have a chance to finish their games, to learn a trade, or to grow into men. Their story, like so many others, was silenced before it truly began.
When we look at this photograph, we don’t see “statistics.” We see two human beings. We see two brothers who likely held hands in the dark, who probably shared whispered fears, and who looked to each other for the comfort that the rest of the world refused to give them.
The scale of this tragedy is almost impossible to comprehend. Historians estimate that at least 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust.
They were not political threats.
They were not soldiers.
They were children.
The history of the Holocaust is often taught through maps, battle lines, and big numbers. But the real history—the part that should shake our conscience—is found in these small, quiet stories.
It is found in the faces of children whose lives were stolen by a system built on hate and indifference.
When we talk about what happened in the Kovno Ghetto, or in the cattle cars leading to Majdanek, we are talking about the deliberate destruction of potential.
Every child murdered was a future doctor, an artist, a parent, or a friend who never got to exist. The void they left behind is a permanent scar on the face of humanity.
It is easy to think that this happened “a long time ago” and that it has nothing to do with us today. But hate does not start with gas chambers. Hate starts with silence.
It starts when we stop seeing the individuals behind the headlines and start viewing others as problems to be solved or numbers to be ignored.
The brothers in that photo remain trapped in 1944. They never grew old. They never saw the end of the war, and they never saw the world change.
They are forever young, forever waiting for a justice that never arrived in time to save them.
We cannot rewrite their ending, but we can change how we honor their memory. By refusing to let their story fade into the background, we choose to remain human.
Remembering them is an act of defiance against the very ideology that tried to wipe them off the face of the earth.
We owe it to these two boys, and to the countless others, to keep our eyes open and our hearts firm. We must refuse to let the world become a place where such things can happen again.
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