In Kenya, donkeys are being butchered in their droves for the widespread and pressing Chinese donkey-skin trade. Despite a legal restriction on killing these mild animals, they are being massacred as you read this.
In 2021, with your help, we effectively assisted end the ruthless sell Tanzania after the federal government followed our pleas to prohibit it. Now, we ask you to stand with us – to accomplish the very same success in Kenya, where unlucky donkeys continue to be cruelly and unlawfully killed. Kenya just recently passed a law restricting the massacre of donkeys in the nation, however it continues unabated. Police seldom step in.
During a recent journey to Ndeiya in Kiambu County, Kenya, we found the fresh, bloody carcasses of around 500 donkeys, all completely removed of their skins and disposed of on a sloping, rocky landscape to rot.
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The Ndeiya area is an epicentre of donkey massacre in Kenya and it exists that we ventured with our partner, the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (KSPCA).
At one place alone, roughly 500 donkey carcasses cluttered the ground like rubbish, disposed of after they had actually been skinned, and every last little bit of flesh and meat removed from their bodies.
Donkeys are purchased from markets or taken from towns, and Chinese slaughterhouse owners might pay regional individuals a pittance to massacre the animals. The skins are then exported to China, where the gelatin is drawn out and utilized in bogus appeal items.
What is the rate of a donkey’s life?
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The meat of a single butchered donkey – frequently fed to unwary individuals – can bring around $150 (£117) in Kenya. The skin they are so gruesomely removed is frequently cost a paltry $50 (£39).
Tragically, this is not the worst or perhaps most dreadful case of donkey massacre we have actually seen – and without your assistance today, it will definitely not be the last.
In the previous years, near to ONE MILLION donkeys have actually been killed in order to extract gelatin from their skin and make a compound called ejiao, an essential active ingredient in a Chinese cosmetic that has no tested advantage.
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Not just are donkeys unnecessarily killed, however in order to save money, the massacre approach is abuse. They are bludgeoned with axes and hammers, their heads smashed in till they bleed out and pass away. Horrifically, they might even be skinned alive.
The Chinese donkey skin trade has actually sparked a continuous and unmanageable genocide of donkeys in Africa.
We have a strategy to secure the animals and help bring the trade to its knees.
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If we can raise $10,000 (approximately £7,900), we can equip our group on the ground with seriously required off-road motorcycles so they can patrol donkey massacre hotspots, obstruct prohibited traders and rescue donkeys from a specific and ruthless death.
These motorcycles will allow our group to routinely pass through the remote area that is mainly unattainable by car and where these abhorrent acts of cruelty would otherwise go uncontrolled. By increasing the frequency of patrols and broadening the locations covered, we can help considerably minimize the variety of helpless donkeys being butchered.
Gloria Davies, our CEO and creator, with rescued donkeys. With your help, we will beat the donkey merchants of death.
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We cannot wait and enable this ridiculous massacre to continue. We MUST decide – not tomorrow, not in a week, however today.
The powerless donkeys of Africa frantically require the empathy of animal enthusiasts like you. Can they depend on you today? Please, contribute right now.
For the animals,
Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!)
Founder and CEO
Network for Animals
P.S. Together, we CAN battle to end the blood-curling donkey skin sell Kenya. With your help, we have actually done it in Tanzania and with your ongoing assistance, we will work relentlessly to accomplish the very same success for donkeys in Kenya. Every contribution towards our objective equips us to eliminate this terrible trade. Join us in this immediate objective. Stand up for these defenceless beings. Together, we can be their beacon of hope. Donate now.
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