Jasper Coetzee

Brand Management Consultant, Photographer, Animal Lover.

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

Commerford Zoo’s last elephant, Minnie, remains alone in a small, concrete enclosure in Connecticut. She endured decades being used for circus performances, photo ops, & rides. Urge them to release her to sanctuary!
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📞860-491-3421

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Singer Tyla thinks a photo opportunity with a Tiger is okay. It ISN’T okay, it is abuse. These animals are drugged into compliance. They should be in the wild NOT some wannabe’s prop!

Celebrities have enormous influence, and with that comes responsibility. We should be promoting respect for wildlife, not normalising close contact with captive big cats.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Animals are not ours to use and abuse! 😢

Shackled and whipped into submission ~ this no life for a living being.

​Let’s stand together against animal cruelty.

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

Around 4,000 goats and sheep destined for Eid Al-Adha in Sharjah are believed to have died after a livestock ship from Somalia was struck, caught fire and sank off the coast of Oman. Live exports cause extreme suffering. Please consider a plant-based diet to help protect animals.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

OUTRAGEOUS. A New Yorker took this video during rush hour showing a carriage driver forcing a horse with passengers directly into Times Square gridlock chaos at Broadway & 47th St. - one of the most congested, chaotic traffic zones in New York City and the country, filled with frightening stimuli for horses.

This comes just one week after yet another violent carriage horse incident, yet carriage drivers are still forcing horses and the public into more danger in the middle of Midtown chaos.

This violates the law and is another example of the carriage industry's complete disregard for the welfare of the horses, public safety, and traffic laws.

The City Council must fast track and pass #RydersLaw to finally get these horses out of harm's way and transition workers to safer modern jobs.

Credit: NYClass (Instagram).

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

🚨 WARNING 🚨

If you are a tourist in Nepal, never ride an Elephant for your safari entertainment.

This is the abuse that Elephants endure to make them comply!

#DontBuyATicket 🎟️ EVER!

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

Captive primates suffer emotional distress and psychological damage because they are denied companionship of their own kind, removed from their mothers as babies. #CaptivePrimateSafetyAct

[PETA @peta]

Imagine that's your cat on that table. Imagine someone restraining her and drilling into her skull. Imagine how lonely, scared, and confused she would feel. This isn't a 'what if.' This is what experimenters do. The only difference between your cat and this one is luck.

[Cape {town} Etc @CapeTownEtc]

Warning: distressing footage. A Bellville cart horse beaten into the ground had injuries far worse than anyone could see. #capeofgoodhopespca #carthorseabuse #animalcruelty https://t.co/CpYWgc5yOt

[Dr MuVenda @Ndi_Muvenda_]

In Kruger National Park, South Africa, veteran ranger Sipho Nkosi suffered a heart attack while on solo patrol. His vehicle was found empty, and search teams began looking for him.

What the park’s remote trail cameras revealed broke the hearts of everyone who saw the footage.

An old bull elephant — known to rangers as “Mnumzane” (Zulu for “Sir”) — had found Sipho’s body. For three full days and nights, the elephant refused to leave. He stood guard, gently touching the ranger with his trunk, chasing away hyenas and jackals that came too close, and even covering parts of the body with branches and leaves.

On the third night, the elephant was still there — visibly grieving, swaying slowly beside his fallen friend. Only when the full recovery team arrived with vehicles did Mnumzane finally step back, watching solemnly as they carried Sipho away.

Park officials later confirmed that Sipho had rescued this same elephant as a calf years earlier after poachers killed his mother. The elephant had never forgotten.

One colleague who viewed the footage whispered:

“He didn’t come to say goodbye. He came to make sure no one disrespected his brother.”

Mnumzane still visits the exact spot regularly. Rangers now leave fresh water and fruit there in honor of both.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

In the Gili Islands, Indonesia, behind the bright, colourful tassels, is the reality of abused horses. Injured, malnourished and distressed.

This abuse will continue as long as tourists keep paying for it.

Now that you know the truth you can help change their bleak reality. Horses are not transportation. Don’t participate in their abuse.

Tourists, #DontBuyATicket ~ if you do YOU are COMPLICIT in their abuse!

🎦 Credit: @PETA.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

They are NOT ours to use or abuse! 😡

Donkeys are individuals, not taxis. But they are forced to haul tourists around the Greek island of Santorini.

If you decide to ride a Donkey, there is a cost ~ ABUSE AND NEGLECT!

Tourists, #DontBuyATicket ~ if you do YOU are COMPLICIT to this abuse!

🎦 Credit: @peta.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

.@RickyGervais explains why #AnimalCruelty is wrong….

“It's tradition' doesn't make it right. “It's part of my religion' doesn't make it right. “It's my culture' doesn't make it right. “People are more important' doesn't make it right either.”

“You know why? Because it's just fucking wrong!”

Well said Ricky 👏.

At the end of the day, there is NO excuse for animal cruelty EVER!! 🚫

[PETA France @PETA_France]

On voit clairement la douleur sur son visage. 😰

Soyez du bon côté de l'histoire.

Aidez PETA à mettre fin aux tests sur les animaux.
➡️ https://t.co/1vNsdHT4R9

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

How many Leopards have to die screaming in traps before wildlife laws actually mean something?

This article is heartbreaking, enraging, and impossible to ignore. Leopards are being tortured, poisoned, trapped, and shot while the people meant to protect them hand out fines so small they insult the suffering involved.

A six-month-old cub died with shattered legs in gin traps baited with carcasses. Another Leopard tried to chew off its own limb to escape. And still, case after case disappears into silence.

This is not just about animals anymore. It’s about what kind of society watches cruelty happen in plain sight and calls it "justice."

Please read. Please share. People need to see what’s happening.

https://t.co/AtkgTh5Mv5

Thank you @CWitvrouwen for highlighting this. 🙏

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Animals are NOT ours to use and abuse! 😡

Donkeys don’t deserve this 💔

Never pay to ride a donkey in Santorini or anywhere else.

Tourists, #DontBuyATicket 🎟️ 🚫.

🎦 Credit: @peta.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Horses being cruelly exploited in Turkey. They are not ours to abuse! 😡

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

This month marks 10 years since Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus last used elephants in their shows. Yet, a decade later, 14 elderly elephants are still forced on the road to tour with other circuses.

At a time when many Americans assume circus elephant acts are long gone, these shows continue quietly across the country with a population of geriatric elephants, many of whom are in their mid-to-late 50s. 

Learn more: https://t.co/t2XZOK1l7J

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If animals could talk, the world would be filled with tears… And perhaps also with shame.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

In the wild, Elephants travel long distances with their families. They recognise each other for life. They mourn their dead and protect their young. This is how they are meant to live.

Now picture the opposite.

Bright lights. Loud crowds. Chains and bullhooks. Shouted orders. Forced tricks that strain their bodies ~ standing on two legs, balancing on stools ~just for applause. They do it because people train them not to refuse.

We take a wild, intelligent animal and turn them into a prop.

Elephants do not exist to sell tickets, pose for photos, or entertain a crowd for a few minutes. They belong on open land, with their herds, living safely ~ not under spotlights.

When we refuse circuses and attractions that use animals, we move closer to a future where the only image of an Elephant we accept is one where they are free.

Let them live as Elephants, not as acts.