Breaking News Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Wayne Pacelle • 202-420-0446wpacelle@centerforahumaneeconomy.org Australian Nike stores draw crowds of angry protesters demanding the end to the cruel, unsustainable commercial slaughter of wild kangaroos Sydney – Australians took to the streets over the weekend in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane to send a message direct to Nike, protesting at … Read more
Kangaroos Are Not Shoes
Every year, kangaroos die in vast numbers because of Nike. That’s the inescapable conclusion of an investigation by the Center for a Humane Economy (“the Center”) into the soccer cleat trade. And it’s the precise reason last year the Center announced its “Kangaroos Are Not Shoes” (KANS) campaign. Nike still doesn’t appreciate why killing two … Read more
Nike drives the killing of kangaroos in the Australian Outback to make soccer cleats. But why? At the European Football (soccer) Championships that the Italy won a week ago, kangaroo skin shoes tightly swathed the feet of a substantial number of the world’s most elite players. But from our analysis, conducted with a partner groups … Read more
Breaking News Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Wayne Pacelle • 202-420-0446wpacelle@centerforahumaneeconomy.org Leaders of New Jersey Senate introduce legislation to ban sale of kangaroo parts, while animal welfare groups in EU promote parallel legislation to federal Kangaroo Protection Act Washington, D.C. – Nike has not made any public declarations about its use of kangaroo skins … Read more
Breaking News Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Wayne Pacelle • 202-420-0446wpacelle@centerforahumaneeconomy.org Senators Kean and Weinberg introduce legislation to stop sale of soccer cleats made from kangaroo skins by Nike, Adidas TRENTON, NJ – Veteran state senators are seeking to make the Garden State the second state in the nation to ban the trade in … Read more
Breaking News Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Wayne Pacelle • 202-420-0446wpacelle@centerforahumaneeconomy.org PERTH, AUSTRALIA – Jennifer Skiff, a world-renowned author and director of international programs for Animal Wellness Action (AWA) and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE) and her Happy Kangaroo team mates, Stuart Gordon, Carly Lambert, and Michael Berry dove into the Indian … Read more
Breaking News Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Jeff Burnside • 206-512-6544, jeff@centerforahumaneeconomy.org Portland – Just in case Nike executives are missing the message from millions of social media hits, 60,000 petition signatures, a newly introduced Kangaroo Protection Act in Congress, and one very powerful short film, strategically placed billboards in the Portland metro area … Read more
Press Release State’s largest violator of ban on selling kangaroo parts changes course after law enforcement pays a visit Los Angeles, CA — Niky’s Sports, California’s largest soccer goods retailer, has stopped selling kangaroo skin soccer shoes (or “cleats”) through its eight stores, adhering to a state law banning commerce in kangaroo body parts after long … Read more
Nike’s kangaroo-leather soccer shoes drive massive wildlife kill in Australia’s Outback By a long shot, the public-private scheme to kill kangaroos in Australia is the biggest commercial slaughter of native wildlife in the world. Despite all the pretense and rationalizations hitched to it by proponents of this open-air slaughter, it’s motivated by profit and the … Read more
Breaking News Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact:Jeff Burnside • 206-512-6544 jeff@centerforahumaneeconomy.org Congressmen Salud Carbajal and Brian Fitzpatrick Say ‘No More Killing Kangaroos for Athletic Shoes’ Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., this week introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act to ban the sale of kangaroo body parts in the … Read more