More than half the world’s wild rabbit species, such as South African riverine rabbits, are endangered or threatened. Domestic bunny species, like Angora or New Zealand White, are subject to the abuses of cosmetics testing, the pet trade and the fur industry.
Beloved in fiction (consider Bugs Bunny and Peter Cottontail) but often overlooked in real life, rabbits are a varied and widespread species, serving as critical members of healthy ecosystems when wild and beloved pets when domesticated.
Nearly silent, wild rabbits warn each other of danger by thumping the ground using their powerful hind legs (which is how Thumper got his name).
Please contact your legislators and urge them to support the reintroduction of the Humane Cosmetics Act to prohibit animal testing for cosmetics manufactured or sold in the U.S.
