{"id":22581,"date":"2017-12-07T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T10:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=22581"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:11:26","slug":"new-instagram-warning-educates-users-cruelty-wild-animal-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2017\/12\/new-instagram-warning-educates-users-cruelty-wild-animal-selfies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Instagram warning educates users about cruelty from wild animal selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sloth-1879999_1920.jpg\" alt=\"New Instagram warning educates users about cruelty from wild animal selfies\" width=\"597\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>orld Animal Protection\u2019s recent \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldanimalprotection.us.org\/wildlife-selfie-code\">Wildlife Selfie Code<\/a>\u201d campaign urged people never to take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/news\/pledge-to-stop-wild-animal-selfies\/\">selfie with a wild animal<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 250,000 people signed the organization\u2019s pledge. Now, the campaign has influenced Instagram to take progressive steps towards ending wild animal selfies!<\/p>\n<p>There are tens of\u00a0thousands of selfies on Instagram that feature exotic animals, and with every post, followers want to join the trend and take one of their own. But now, after working closely with World Animal Protection, Instagram has launched a new \u201ccontent advisory page\u201d that seeks to educate users about the issues selfies with wild animals cause. When Instagram users search for hashtags such as #koalaselfie and #slothselfie, a warning message will pop up.<\/p>\n<p>The warning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/instagram-animals-posts-selfies-warning-national-geographic-latest-danger-abuse-a8092401.html\">reads<\/a> \u201cAnimal abuse and the sale of endangered animals or their parts is not allowed on Instagram. You are searching a hashtag that may be associated with posts that encourage harmful behavior to animals or the environment.\u201d Users can then click a link to visit World Animal Protection\u2019s website to learn more about posts that encourage harmful behavior to animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWith its community of over 800 million users, Instagram has the platform to change the conversation around the use of animals as photo props. We are encouraged by this first step towards changing the acceptability of using animals for our entertainment,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Cassandra Koenen, Head of Wildlife Campaigns at World Animal Protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><\/h3>\n<p><strong>This is an edited excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/news\/instagram-warning-about-cruelty-in-animal-selfies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article that first appeared on One Green Planet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users now warned that they are searching a hashtag that may be associated with posts that encourage harmful behavior to animals or the environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,675,1522,287,534,265,262,140],"tags":[803,2214],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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