This Giving Tuesday, your donation can make a real difference for animals when you use it to cast your vote in our Wicked-themed mascot challenge.

Inspired by Wicked’s call to stand up for those who have been silenced, we are pairing four virtues with four animals affected by captivity. When you donate, you choose the virtue and the mascot that speaks to you most. Every contribution helps expand our Defying Captivity campaign and supports our work to end the use of animals for entertainment.

Meet the mascots
Monkey - Heart
A symbol of empathy and emotional connection, monkeys are intelligent, expressive beings who deserve freedom, not confinement.
Goat - Brain
Curious, clever, and underestimated, goats represent the power of knowledge, advocacy, and informed action.
🏆 Lion - Courage
A timeless emblem of bravery, lions inspire us to challenge systems that exploit animals and to speak boldly for change.
Bear - Home
Gentle, resilient creatures who thrive when given safety and space, bears remind us that every animal deserves a true home, not a cage.

Your donation = your vote

The chosen mascot with the most support will guide a special Protego action to symbolically “free” their animal and spotlight our ongoing work to end captivity in the real world, and will also be the focus of our efforts in a future phase of the Defying Captivity campaign.

Choose your virtue.

Champion your mascot.

Help us defy captivity together.