After devouring the nectar of nature, the human has now plummeted itself to new lows. Mixing his bestial pleasure out of the pain of the animals and posting them on social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook for cheap gains. It is astonishing that some YouTubers have the audacity to post the most objectionable videos that help them gain a huge subscribership, cheap publicity, and of course, revenue.

Man, as if, is not in a mood to rest until the last vestige of the animal in the world disappears. After destroying habitats, now some paranoids are on the prowl to play with the lives of animals through sadistic and insane ways on YouTube and Facebook for cheap publicity and revenue in millions.

Wildlife Society of Odisha (WSO), an NGO active in the conservation of several species, has brought to the fore stunning details of how animals kept in captivity are being abused, incarcerated in the most insensitive manner, and posted on Social Media (YouTube and Facebook), giving them phenomenal subscriptions and enormous revenue.

WSO has highlighted incidents that took place in Odisha since 2016 before the top echelons of the Wildlife wing in the state.

Human’s appalling greed has already surpassed all limits to settle at one thing: cheap publicity and money. Let’s look at how low humans can get, hogging the limelight even if it requires torturing, incarcerating, or even killing an animal.

Few examples:

1. Ref No. WC/24/2019 dated 12th August 2019 against Mirza Md Arif, Bhadrak, who removed King Cobra eggs from Keonjhar forests and posted a YouTube video.
2. Ref. No. WC/78/2018 dated 6th July 2018 against a Snake rescuer of Balasore WL Division who posted a Facebook video.
3. Ref. No. WC/80/2016 dtd. 17th October 2016 against Snake rescuer Bapu Pradhan of Baripada who posted a video on Facebook of a snake.
4. Ref. No. 54/2016 dtd. 14th July 2016 against Mirza Md Arif, Bhadrak who posted a picture of a King Cobra rescued from Agarpada on Facebook. In the same letter, we had urged you to issue guidelines to prevent harm to snakes during rescue and post-rescue.

PMLA Here

Wildlife Society of Odisha has at last pioneered the step to seek the attention of the department heads of the Wildlife wings of Odisha.

"The wildlife division then passed orders to ensure action under the WPA, 1972, and pin down all such offenders who keep captive wildlife and post photos of performances with them or of display of rescued snakes are booked under the law," said Biswajit Mohanty, Secretary WSO in his communication with the Wildlife authorities in Odisha.

Following this order and action by the department, many videos on YouTube and Facebook have been deleted by the culprits apart from the Social Media platforms themselves.

"We have been very concerned over the rampant growth of such illegal practices in Odisha since 2016 and have urged the department several times since eight years to stop this. Innocent wildlife suffered for long because of such unscrupulous persons who profited immensely from Advertisement revenue share from Social Media platforms," WSO said in its letter.

It further said that some of these social media users have huge numbers of subscribers running into millions as their videos of gimmickry with wildlife were very popular amongst the masses.

Apart from encouraging others to copy them, such lucrative earnings also lead to defiance by these offenders. They ignored orders of the forest department to delete such videos and refrain from keeping in captivity protected species or displaying them for the public.

"Given the enormous reach and popularity of their videos, some of them would have earned crores of rupees over the last eight to ten years from such illegal activity at the expense of suffering wildlife," rued Mohanty.

"We, therefore request you to kindly consider the above grounds and the need to take strictest action under every applicable law against such offenders. It would do justice to the suffering wildlife who were used and tortured in such videos. The tainted proceeds of their heinous crimes against voiceless creatures should be confiscated by the government," urges Biswajit Mohanty, Secretary WSO.

Beyond the state, see what happens nationally and internationally.

Double-edged absurdity:

Many drug companies test their drugs on animals and say, ‘it is tested and found safe’ and then is also administered on human beings.

Think about the serious consequences on the animals once they are administered with certain drugs. Experts are of the view that testing on animals is also not reliable so anything can happen to a human. But no rule controls such companies due to their hold and influence they enjoy.

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