Anti-hunting Campaign / Research

To get a further understanding, we started from researching already existing anti-hunting campaigns. The research was very limited as we found only two different campaigns.

The photographs for the first anti-hunting campaign which we found were taken by Russian photographer Olga Barantseva, who captured the imaged and said: 'We wanted to show the natural harmony between humans and bears. It is about showing a traditional friendship - just like between two human friends'.

Bizarre pictures have emerged of two models posing seductively with a giant brown bear as part of an anti-hunting campaign. Organisers wanted to highlight the importance of living 'side-by-side' with bears and to discourage hunting. 

  

The next example is an article about Peta's campaign 'Shoot Selfies, Not Animals'. In an attempt at humor, thousands of hunters began using PETA’s frame on photos of themselves posing with the corpses of animals they’d killed. But ironically, their actions served only to introduce PETA and their anti-hunting message to a whole new audience.

 

“PETA owes a big thank-you to the would-be trolls who are spreading our message of compassion,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman says. “The supportive messages are pouring in from kind people who agree that only bullies or cowards get their kicks from gunning down beautiful wild animals.”

But the number of young children posing in the would-be trolls’ photos is cause for concern: Nearly every serial killer and school shooter killed animals before moving on to humans. PETA encourages parents to teach their children empathy for others by encouraging them to shoot with a camera instead of a gun.