With your help, we intend to convince Nike to stop using kangaroo skin for soccer shoes.

More than two million kangaroos are shot each year in Australia. It’s the largest land-based commercial wildlife slaughter in the world, ten times larger and far bloodier than the notorious seal slaughter in Canada.

Why kill the beloved Australian icon? Americans protect bald eagles. New Zealand protects kiwi birds. China protects giant pandas. Yet the Australian government sanctions and subsidizes the hunts, with kangaroo meat going to pet food and the skins to manufacturers like Nike and adidas for “k-leather” soccer shoes, despite a rising chorus of protest from soccer stars.

Imagine, wild kangaroos survive Australia’s horrific wildfires only to be at risk of being shot by hunters. Imagine the estimated 500,000 joeys who become collateral damage, taken from the pouches of their shot mother and killed with blunt force trauma or left to starve. Not too sporting.