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Has social media become a digital circus for wildlife?

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingOctober 6, 20262KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Has social media become a digital circus for wildlife? Amateur MMA fighter Cole Johnson recently attracted attention after a PR stunt claiming he could defeat a chimpanzee. His announcement sparked a flurry of posts, with content creators debating whether he could win, photoshopped memes showing chimpanzees in boxing gear, and AI-generated posters promoting the…

Why you still need to ‘Report It!’

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingSeptember 21, 20262KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Why you still need to 'Report It!' Social media enables animal lovers to share their passion online, however the popularity of animal 'content' has also given rise to a dark side, in which domestic animals and wildlife are cruelly exploited for the sake of clicks. This cruelty may cynically seek to elicit outrage responses, or…

Screenshot of social media imagery from SMAC

Reports say social media is integral to wildlife trafficking infrastructure

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJuly 23, 20263KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Reports suggest Facebook has become wildlife trafficking's biggest marketplace Three major reports released during 2026 paint a concerning picture of how social media platforms, particularly Meta's Facebook ecosystem, have become central to the global trade in threatened and protected species. Together, the reports argue that online wildlife trafficking is no longer simply a conservation issue.…

Adult and baby elephant in the wild. The adult has large tusks.

JGI joins a historic global coalition to abolish trophy hunting

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Dr. Jane Goodall, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJuly 1, 20262KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The Jane Goodall Institute calls for trophy hunting to end Hundreds of household names have joined with wildlife experts, former Presidents, African community leaders, religious and Indigenous leaders, to call on the UN to abolish trophy hunting, which claims tens of thousands of endangered animals every year. Our founder, Dr. Jane Goodall, was at the…

First SMACC Global Summit unites sectors to end online animal cruelty

Campaigns, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJune 24, 20262KViews 0Likes 0Comments

SMACC Global Summit united governments, organizations and professionals in a shared effort to end online animal cruelty. Members of the Jane Goodall Institute Nepal and Global teams participated in the inaugural Social Media Animal Cruelty Global Summit (Bali, 11-12 June 2026). The summit, hosted by the Asia for Animals Coalition and Sintesia Animalia Indonesia, was…

Seeds of Hope from CITES CoP20

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJanuary 12, 20263KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Seeds of Hope at CITES CoP20 In this blog, JGI wildlife crime expert Dr Zara Bending shares some of her takeaways from CITES CoP20 (the 20th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which took place from November 24th – December 5th in Samarkand,…

Our call to CITES CoP20 in light of urgent chimpanzee trafficking concerns

Chimpanzees, Ethics and Guidance, Wildlife traffickingNovember 28, 20252KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Our call to CITES CoP20 in light of urgent chimpanzee trafficking concerns "The trafficking in chimpanzees is happening at industrial scale, we must act now." The Jane Goodall Institute calls for action at CITES CoP20 Three infant chimpanzees vanished from Kinshasa’s N’Sele Zoo between the evening of November 23rd and the morning of November 24th,…

Zeytin: A baby gorilla waiting to go home

Ethics and Guidance, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingNovember 3, 20252KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Zeytin: a baby gorilla waiting to go home The Jane Goodall Institute Global (JGIG) expresses its deep concern and genuine hope regarding the future of Zeytin, a baby gorilla currently held in a Turkish zoo after being rescued from an illegal trafficking operation. Zeytin’s story is heartbreaking. He was found concealed in a cargo shipment…

Why we’re asking you to ‘Report It!’

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingMay 22, 20252KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Why we're asking you to 'Report It!' Social media has enabled people to share about the things that matter to them and, with so many of us passionate about animals, it is wonderful to see a lot of animal content. However there is a darker side, in which both domestic animals and wildlife are being…

What is Species Laundering?

Chimpanzees, Wildlife traffickingMay 7, 20253KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Looking into Species Laundering Our previous blog covered the intersection of wildlife trafficking and money laundering. In this blog, Dr Zara Bending delves deeper into a topic currently attracting international scrutiny: species laundering. What is species laundering and how does it happen? Species laundering is a deceptive practice employed by wildlife traffickers to make specimens…

Focus on Finance – JGIG Celebrates World Wildlife Day

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingMarch 2, 20252KViews 1Like 0Comments

3 March 2025 marks United Nations World Wildlife Day, focusing on Wildlife Conservation Finance The 3rd of March marks United Nations World Wildlife Day. The date commemorates the conclusion of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (‘CITES’) in 1973 – a crucial multilateral agreement for wildlife aiming…

Zara Bending speaking at Taronga Zoo event

2024 wrap up – JGI Global puts hope into action in the face of global challenges

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingDecember 18, 20242KViews 1Like 0Comments

As 2024 ends, we feature some recent highlights of the advocacy and achievements of JGI Global and our partners. Our founder Dr. Jane Goodall celebrated her 90th birthday this year but that has not slowed her down. Going from classrooms to CoPs, embassies to Glastonbury, and opera houses to Houses of Parliament and beyond, she…

JGI joins a historic global coalition to abolish trophy hunting

Seeds of Hope from CITES CoP20

Our call to CITES CoP20 in light of urgent chimpanzee trafficking concerns

Zeytin: A baby gorilla waiting to go home

What is Species Laundering?

Focus on Finance – JGIG Celebrates World Wildlife Day

2024 wrap up – JGI Global puts hope into action in the face of global challenges

Inspiring hope through action

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