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CWAPC believes that education is an important component of creating social change. To this end, CWAPC will provide the public, policy makers and the media with accurate information concerning the harmful practice of keeping dangerous wild animals as pets, in order to ultimately create a safer environment for people and animals. Created in a variety of media, this information will seek to inform all ages that keeping wild animals as pets is dangerous for people and inhumane for animals.
The goal of these materials is to communicate the following messages:
Wildlife should be protected in their natural habitat.
Private ownership of wild animals as pets is dangerous to people and inhumane to animals.
Wild animals as pets injure and kill children and adults and can transmit potentially deadly diseases.
Only professionally operated, regulated facilities can provide appropriate levels of care for wild animals.