C.A.R.E. The Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education
Baboon & Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre Committed to Rescue, Rehabilitation, Release & Sanctuary Since 1989. Hands on Volunteer Opportunities in Africa with Primates
Don't Let Your Selfie Be Selfish
Your baboon "selfies" could be the most selfish thing you could post.
Do not harm the animals you are coming to help through irresponsible, selfish images making their way online.
1 Primate Pet Trade
2 Primate Pet Trade
3 Example: Chimps in Entertainment
4 Example 2: Slow Loris Video
5 Example 3: Photo Prop Tourism
6 Where You Come in: Your Voice Matters
7 Context is Key, Captions are essential!
8 Our Contract
9 Why we ask
10 Bad Social Media Sharing Post Example
11 Good Social Media Sharing Post Example
12 Remember the Facts
13 Want to Learn More?
14 Want to Learn More?
Irresponsible "cute" images of primates on your social media pages can damage conservation efforts and fuel the primate pet trade.
You could be unknowingly harming our cause.
Be responsible and be the change.
Read about how you can help or hinder the baboon adults and babies, along with other wildlife.
Related scientific articles;
Thanks to Maddy Thaler, MSc. for providing the following references for further reading;
[1] Ali, M. S. S. (2011). The Use of Facebook to Increase Climate Change Awareness among Employees. In 2011 International Conference on Social Science and Humanity, IPEDR (Vol. 5, pp. 266-270).
[2] Crivellaro, C., Comber, R., Bowers, J., Wright, P. C., & Olivier, P. (2014). A pool of dreams: facebook, politics and the emergence of a social movement. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 3573-3582). ACM.
[3] Douglas, S., Maruyama, M., Semaan, B., & Robertson, S. P. (2014). Politics and young adults: the effects of Facebook on candidate evaluation. InProceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 196-204). ACM.
[4] Nekaris, K. A. I., & Campbell, N. (2012). Media attention promotes conservation of threatened Asian slow lorises. Oryx, 46(02), 169-170.
[5] Nekaris, K. A. I., Campbell, N., Coggins, T. G., Rode, E. J., & Nijman, V. (2013). Tickled to death: analysing public perceptions of ‘cute’videos of threatened species (slow lorises–Nycticebus spp.) on Web 2.0 Sites. PloS one, 8(7), e69215.
[6] Ross, S. R., Vreeman, V. M., & Lonsdorf, E. V. (2011). Specific image characteristics influence attitudes about chimpanzee conservation and use as pets. PloS one, 6(7), e22050.
[7] Schroepfer, K. K., Rosati, A. G., Chartrand, T., & Hare, B. (2011). Use of “entertainment” chimpanzees in commercials distorts public perception regarding their conservation status. PloS one, 6(10), e26048.
[8] Soulsbury, C, Iossa, G, Kennell, S & Harris, S (2009) The welfare and suitability of primates kept as pets, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 1(2):1-20.
