Central idea
The Arts can raise awareness of local and global issues
Enduring Understanding
The illegal pet trade is affecting animals around the world treated with torture instead of kindness, slavery instead of care and force instead of love. We do this, killing and torturing for money animals lives for money this is serious we could wipe out the species we threaten.
Lines Of Inquiry |
Guiding Questions |
How animals are being treated in the pet trade (form)
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What is illegal pet trade?How are the animals being mistreated?
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How pet trade is connected to wildlife poaching (connection)
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How can people have wild animals as pet? (e.g. slow loris from indonesia)Why do celebrities have endangered animals as pet?
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The role the Arts can play in raising awareness about illegal pet trading(function)
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How can we use the arts to raise awareness about the illegal pet trading?
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Questions
How is the pet trade connected to wild-life poaching?
because in illegal pet trade they capture the animals and they might have unique feature that pet smugglers might want
What wild animals are being sold as pets?
slow loris,cockatoo, hyacinth macaw,
How do poachers trap them?
they shoot them with air guns.
What wild animals are being sold as pets in Indonesia?
slow loris , monkeys,fruit bat
Who buys them? Celebrities?
Kim Kardasian, Justin Beiber, Mike Tyson, Megan Fox,
What are the effects of pet trading on endangered animals? How does it
affect the population of a species
it will damage the species population because 80% of the animals die before they even get to the market to be sold and for slow loris their teeth so even if they get rescued they might not survive because they can't defend them selves.
How is the pet trade connected to wild-life poaching?
because in illegal pet trade they capture the animals and they might have unique feature that pet smugglers might want
What wild animals are being sold as pets?
slow loris,cockatoo, hyacinth macaw,
How do poachers trap them?
they shoot them with air guns.
What wild animals are being sold as pets in Indonesia?
slow loris , monkeys,fruit bat
Who buys them? Celebrities?
Kim Kardasian, Justin Beiber, Mike Tyson, Megan Fox,
What are the effects of pet trading on endangered animals? How does it
affect the population of a species
it will damage the species population because 80% of the animals die before they even get to the market to be sold and for slow loris their teeth so even if they get rescued they might not survive because they can't defend them selves.