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[ [link removed] ]Close-up of a donkey with a thick, shaggy coat, standing on a dirt
surface. The donkey appears calm and slightly contemplative, with its head
lowered and ears tilted back.

John,

6 million donkeys are brutally slaughtered every single year to fuel a
horrifying global trade in their skins – all to produce a product called
"ejiao," falsely marketed as a miracle cure.

These sweet creatures – as intelligent as dogs and dolphins! – are crammed
into trucks, then dragged by their ears and tails before being bludgeoned
with sledgehammers while other donkeys look on in terror.

It’s senseless cruelty and major airlines are helping drive up demand by
shipping their skins around the world.

But the tide is shifting. Emirates Airlines just BANNED these shipments
and now we’re about to launch a fierce campaign to turn one airline’s bold
move into a global shift!

With all of us chipping in a little, we could turn up the heat on airline
CEOs with brand-shaming ads, launch media-grabbing stunts during peak
travel months, brief journalists to splash this all over the media – then
keep going to stop more corporations profiting from animal exploitation.

Without airlines, this brutal trade would take a major hit. Let’s make it
happen. Can you chip in to save the donkeys?



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Criminals steal donkeys from families across Africa, who rely on these
faithful creatures for their livelihoods, before subjecting them to a
torturous death.

And it’s the same sophisticated organized crime networks trafficking
illegal wildlife products, arms, and drugs that rely on airlines to keep
shipping bloody donkey skins around the world so they can keep profiting
from this misery.

If that wasn’t bad enough, airlines are creating a serious biosecurity
risk because donkey skins can carry parasites and pathogens that, once
airborne, can spread across continents in hours.

Meanwhile, the families who depended on their donkeys for survival lost
their only source of transport, water, or farming power – pushing them
deeper into poverty. 

Emirates Airlines just adopted a zero tolerance policy and banned donkey
skin shipments – exposing the hidden dangers of this trade for public
health. Now, it’s time for Qatar Airways, Turkish Cargo, and others to
follow suit.

If we can urgently raise the funds, we could flood them with pressure
while the spotlight is still on them, choosing from tactics like: 

* Launching a massive publicity push to expose airlines with journalist
briefings, ads targeting key airline execs, and media-grabbing stunts;

* Buying billboard space at major airports, exposing the airlines
involved in transporting skins;

* Flooding airline executives with thousands of messages;

* Increasing public pressure by working with social media creators to
blast the truth about ejiao across the internet. 

Over 40,000 of us have signed a petition demanding airlines stop this
brutal trade in donkey skin. With your support we could unleash a
mega-campaign to make us impossible to ignore – and keep fighting to
protect animals everywhere.

Will you chip in today to help power the fight to end the donkey skin
trade for good?



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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Allison and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]The donkey skin trade's connection to organised crime The Donkey
Sanctuary

[ [link removed] ]The Donkey Sanctuary and Emirates join forces to combat trafficking of
donkey skins Emirates 11 December 2024

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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