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Content Priorities

High Priority

We are interested in assignment pitches (preference given to local contributors or those already travelling within the area) or licensing existing content for the following:

Farmed Animals in Asia and Latin America

  • Battery cages (Latin America only)
  • Gestation crates (Brazil)
  • Animal testing
  • Supply chain investigations targeting popular brands or retailers

Industrial Fish Farming

  • Salmon farming
  • Land based aquaculture

Farmed Animals Other Regions

  • Battery cages (USA)
  • Gestation crates (USA)
  • Enriched cages (Canada & USA)
  • Foie gras force-feeding
  • Octopus farming
  • Animal testing

Other

  • Amazon deforestation due to animal agriculture
  • Pollution or environmental impacts of factory farms

To pitch an assignment idea, please submit your pitch by filling out this form.
If you have existing content you would like us to consider for the stock site, please fill out this form after reviewing our licence agreement.

Medium Priority

We are interested in licensing content for the following:

Farmed Animals

  • Farrowing crates (USA)
  • Horse export for slaughter (USA)
  • Donkey farming

Climate Change/Environment

  • Sea life / plastic pollution
  • Orangutans & deforestation/palm oil

Aquatic Life

  • Dolphins & whales – Grindadrap (Faroe Islands)
  • Taiji Dolphin hunt (Japan) 
  • Commercial whaling

Wildlife

  • Wolf culls (California, USA and British Columbia, Canada)
  • Black bear poaching for bile (Canada)

Other

  • Pet food industry – cell-based food or the use of byproducts in pet food)

If you have existing content you would like us to consider for the stock site, please fill out this form after reviewing our licence agreement.

Low Priority

We are interested in licensing content from these areas, but will need to give publishing priority to the medium and high content first:

Farmed Animals

  • Wagyu/Kobe Beef (British Columbia, Canada)
  • Wagyu/Kobe Beef (Japan)
  • Semen collection for artificial insemination
  • Guinea Pig farming
  • Sheep farming / wool production (muesling, shearing)

Aquatic Life

  • Captive whales & dolphins
  • Cormorant fishing (Japan)
  • Turtle / Turtle egg hunting

Commercial Fishing (Fish and Crustaceans)

  • Tuna fishing
  • Lobster fishing
  • Crab fishing
  • Salmon fishing
  • Shark fins
  • Shrimp trawling

Entertainment

  • Bullfighting
  • Moose hunting
  • Deer hunting
  • Seal hunt (Gaspé, QC, Canada)
  • Black bear hunting
  • Dog fighting
  • Circuses

Wildlife

  • Trophy hunting
  • Canned hunts (Africa)
  • Elephants – Ivory trade
  • Rhino poaching
  • Wild horse culls
  • Wild hog hunting
  • Coyote culls (Canada, USA)
  • Reindeer – Herding/breeding/slaughter (Arctic Europe Finland/Sweden)

Festivals/Ceremony

  • Yulin dog meat festival (China)

Other

  • Vegan pet food industry
  • Horse urine industry – pregnant mares
  • Crocodile skin
  • Puppy mills
  • Dog breeding

If you have existing content you would like us to consider for the stock site, please fill out this form after reviewing our licence agreement.

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