Petition: Tell eBay To Stop Selling Slaughtered Bats!

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Tell eBay To Stop Selling Slaughtered Bats!

Target: eBay

 

Several companies are catching bats in the wild and killing them for sale as

“art” in glass frames. One small bat, also known as the Short-nosed fruit

bat, is a major target of this cruel practice. The fruit bat is an important

pollinator and seed dispenser, and has a status of vulnerable.

 

Bats already face severe threats due to habitat loss. Killing additional

bats for personal collections only leads to further decline of wild bat

populations.

 

Fruit and nectar-eating bats are responsible for hundreds of economically

important products including foods, drinks, medicines, timber, fibers, dyes

and fuel. Wild varieties of many of the world’s most economically valuable

crop plants, such as bananas, rely on bats for survival. Insect eating bat

species are natural enemies of night-flying pests that damage crops,

reducing the need for chemical pesticides.

 

Tell eBay to stop selling stuffed bat bodies unless eBay is sure 1) the bats

are not imperiled in the wild, and 2) the bats were collected after they

died naturally.

Petition:

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/396498055