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Champions are celebrities, opinion leaders and real people like you who care enough about the future of our planet to use their spheres of influence to help the UN tackle wildlife crime. Together, our individual actions can have exponential impact! Please join us and become a Wild for Life Champion today.

 

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Indian model, actress, and producer. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
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Ghanaian singer, songwriter, and record producer

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African 4 time Footballer of the Year. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
Elephants are honoured in my home country, Côte d'Ivoire. It’s our national animal and the name of our national football team. Demand for ivory is causing the killing of this species in the hundreds of thousands. I prefer my elephants alive and magnificent. To see one in the wild is to be awed. Let's stop this now, together.

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American Actor and Activist, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador

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American Actor and Activist. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
The ocean is often misunderstood because it is a place of mystery, a place relatively undiscovered; for many of us, disconnected to our practical lives and everyday experiences. But it is a place that we can't live without, not just for joy and inspiration but for our own human- well being. Fish feed 4.3 billion people on the globe and 50% of our planet's oxygen is ocean generated--every 2nd breathe we take. And we are still discovering deep sea species that we never knew existed. Imagine we have reached the moon but we have not reached the depths of the seas…so it is imperative to cherish and protect them. Today, I give my name to change the game for the elusive sawfish. Please join me and go wild for life by choosing your own kindred species!

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Cinematographer, photographer, scuba diver, and marine conservationist

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Filipino-American actress, singer, host and commercial model

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Wildlife Photographer, SeaLegacy Co-Founder and President
Choosing to represent a creature like the mighty sperm whale is an easy choice. It might not be the sexiest, most charismatic or easy to love animal, but I have seldom spent time with more intelligent, keenly aware, and exquisitely sociable creatures. Made famous by Melville’s Moby Dick, its history is indeed, written in blood. Hundreds of thousands of sperm whales were slaughtered by whalers for their blubber, their ambergris and their spermaceti. The true value of this creature, however, may be in the things it can still teach us about how to live on this planet. Imagine what we can learn from a creature that can dive several miles to hunt in the dark! Its keen senses, adaptations and abilities are almost otherworldly and can hold the key to understanding our own life support system and our own place in the universe.

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American entertainment journalist and explorer

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TV host and producer, author, speaker, and social entrepreneur

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Indian model, actress, and producer. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
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Endurance swimmer, UN Patron of Peace

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Indonesian Supermodel. Ambassador, UN Environment Great Apes Survival Partnership.
Imagine a world without the beauty and magic of nature. It is our greatest source of inspiration and life is just richer knowing that we accompany this planet with an array of ancient and amazing species. I don't want to tell my children that we had the chance to save them but didn't due to either inaction or human greed.

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Wildlife Photographer and Filmmaker, Marine Biologist, SeaLegacy Co-Founder

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Wildlife Photographer, Ocean Activist, Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers

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Actress and YouTube Sensation

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Broadcaster, Writer and Adventurer, UN Patron of the Wilderness

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Australian Actor, Ocean Activist, Ambassador for Indonesian Ocean Pride

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Indonesian Singer-Songwriter

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Brazilian Supermodel. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
It breaks my heart that with all our knowledge and power we are still facing the possibility of extinction of so many plants, land and sea creatures at the hands of man. Knowledge is power and now is the time to end all illegal wildlife trade before the choice is no longer in our hands. I give my name to change the game for sea turtles.

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English singer and songwriter. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
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American Actor and Activist, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador
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Malaysian Actress, Producer. UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador.
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All over the world criminal cartels are selling, smuggling and killing some of the world’s rarest and most beloved species of flora and fauna. We can all help eradicate the demand for products of the illegal trade in wildlife by making informed choices. This means that when we shop we make sure that what we buy isn’t harming wildlife, fueling corruption or lining the pockets of criminals.

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Chinese Actress. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
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The essence of our traditional culture lies in a belief of peaceful co-existence between humanity and nature. We must accept that we are contributing to the demise of this culture through our lifestyle choices. We don't need products that destroy species. We can find substitutes that are as beautiful and make a powerful statement about being an informed global citizen.

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Mexican Actor, Director, and Producer.
It is unbelievable that there are people who hunt Jaguars for their fur or for "sports". From poaching and the loss of habitat, the population of the Jaguar has declined alarmingly, making us both witnesses and accomplices of its extinction. I want to do everything in my power to stop this from happening and to guarantee the life of the Jaguar, as well as of the plants and animals that depend on the Jaguar´s survival. The Jaguar is a beautiful animal, free and indomitable, a spiritual symbol of the human being. I support the “Wild for Life” campaign to save the Jaguar and all other species in danger of extinction.

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Lebanese Artist. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
Elephants, rhinos and tigers are some of the best-known victims of the Illegal trade – killed by the thousands for their ivory, horn, skin, bones. But it also threatens many other species that you might not even have heard of, like helmeted hornbills, which are used for ivory substitutes. We don't need these products, let's enjoy these animals alive.

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Bollywood Actress. UN Campaign Leader.
We should not be using illegal wildlife products for false remedies, entertainment, fashion, status or investment. It's time to pay attention to our choices and make informed, smart decisions that don't threaten species great or small.

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Australian Actor and Architect
The adorable sun bear, called beruang madu (honey bears) in Indonesia, desperately needs our help! The smallest bear in the world, named for the golden patch of fur on its chest that resembles the rising sun, lives only in south-east Asia, but habitat loss and poachers are threatening their survival. Criminals are killing these precious creatures to sell their bile for traditional medicine, in a very cruel extraction process, and snatching their cubs to be sold as pets. It is heartbreaking, but join me to do something about it. Today, I am giving my name to change the game for the sun bear. Use your own sphere of influence to encourage people get better informed and to say no to products that threaten species!

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American Actor. UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador.
Too many people wanting more. Too few natural resources to keep up. It is clear to me that a radical global shift needs to occur and it will take every one of us to be informed and make smarter choices that don't max out our planet. I have faith in our youth to be better informed to turn this tide, but they need our help.

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Former Prime Minister of Australia

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Vietnamese Performer. Idols Judge. UN Champion.
When it comes to rhino horn, the solution is simple: don’t be fooled by those who falsely claim that rhino horn can cure serious ailments and hangovers. Ultimately, when it comes to health, there is as much sense in biting your own fingernails as there is in buying rhino horn since they are made of the same thing. Let's get informed and make smart choices!

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American Actress. UN Champion.
If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We are all part of one great system for which trees are our lungs. Choosing wood products that are sustainably sourced is not that hard, but can make a huge difference.

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Vietnamese Boy Band. Champions for Thu Minh
365 Da Band

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American Actress, Model and Television Presenter. Champion for Gisele Bünchden.

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British Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.
I have lived my entire life with great apes. They are curious, caring, smart, and often more entertaining than human friends. So like us that I often felt I was looking in a mirror. It is our obligation to care for these close relatives of man, not to allow them to end up living lonely lives in zoos, as illegal pets or as parts to decorate our homes.

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Chinese Superstar Pianist and UN Messenger of Peace

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Czech Miss Earth 2013. News Presenter. Model.

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American Actor and Producer

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Spanish Grand Prix Motorcycle Road Racer and three-time MotoGP World Champion.

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American Actress and Journalist. Champion for Gisele Bündchen

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Spanish Singer

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Brazilian Football Player. Champion for Gisele Bündchen
Football unites us all in a common goal. Winning as part of a team. We need to think of ourselves as global citizens, one great team that can win against the greed and ignorance that is allowing wildlife crime to flourish. Being a global citizen means understanding how our personal choices can cause a ripple effect around the world--for good and bad.

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Namibian Model. Champion for Gisele Bünchden

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An Angry Bird!

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Champion for Thu Minh
Thich an Pho

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Vietnamese Actress and Model. Champion for Thu Minh
Vu Pham Diem My

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Chinese Actor. Champion for Li Bing Bing
I bet you may never have heard of the funny-looking pangolin? It is becoming famous now for its status as the most illegally trafficked mammal in the world, used for its meat and scales. The illegal poaching of animals around the world is no laughing matter. Let’s learn where our products come from and what negative impacts our purchasing decisions can have.

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Olympic Badminton Gold Medalist. Champion for Li Bingbing.
We don’t always realize how much personal power each of us has to influence those around us as long as we have the will to work hard, take action and lead by example. Let’s each go for gold by acting as environmental custodians to make the future healthy and in harmony for people and the planet.

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Chinese Singer. Campaign Champion for Li Bingbing
Who doesn’t love elephants? Did you know they used to roam across China? Did you know that demand for ivory is causing them to disappear from Africa? Wearing or gifting ivory isn’t cool or fashionable. Let’s be the generation to say we stopped the poaching of all endangered species because we got informed and made smart choices!

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Chinese Investor. Champion for Li Bing Bing.
We have a responsibility to be in harmony with nature. We can’t take more than what the planet can produce, but we are. This will have devastating impacts if we don’t ‘change our ways, today. My generation has made mistakes by not paying more attention. Young people can change this by raising their voices through social media and by influencing peers and parents.

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Chinese Volleyball Player and Olympic Champion. Campaign Champion for Li Bingbing

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President and CEO of Trends Media Group. Champion for Li Bing Bing
At the heart of illegal trade in wildlife is too much demand for endangered wildlife products used for cuisine, fashion, gift-giving and investment. Let’s set new trends that don’t threaten our planet’s weird and wonderful species.

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Thai Actress and Singer

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Wildlife Veterinarian.

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Thai Actor and Singer.

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Marine Biologist

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Kenyan alpine skier