WILD ANIMALS HELD IN CAPTIVITY

On the surface they may appear concerned for animal welfare but are all groups actually getting out and doing the work, or are some groups more into “lip service” activities and collecting donations? Before you blindly donate to any animal welfare group, possibly consider investigating it.

For example, a wildlife conservation group may claim it is trying to save an endangered species from extinction, yet critics charge it may be more interested in raising donations to keep its printing presses cranking out wildlife calendars, slickly published magazines, conducting speaking engagements and performing other self-serving promotional activities instead of actually getting its “hands dirty” physically going into the bush to do the ACTUAL conservationist work and research necessary to save a species!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CNN-TV HEADLINE NEWS 10/26/96