Leadership About Vision How We Operate What We Create How We Collaborate Looking Ahead Data Index Respecting biodiversity Protecting wildlife Meta’s policies help prevent illegal wildlife trafficking from happening on our platforms. Our Meta’s Commerce Policies↗ Cross-sector collaboration and Community Standards↗ strictly prohibit the sale of live animals industry partnerships are crucial prohibit content depicting, or animal parts. We rely on a in our efforts to combat illegal admitting or promoting criminal combination of community wildlife sales online. Since 2018, acts including poaching or selling reports, technology and human we have belonged to the Coalition endangered species or their parts. review to remove violating to End Wildlife Trafficking content. These policies align with Online↗, working with external When a user searches a hashtag the Convention on International organizations to help scale our associated with harmful behavior Trade in Endangered Species impact in this area, including the to animals, such as #tigerselfie or (CITES)↗ Appendix I. World Wildlife Fund (WWF)↗, #elephantivory, an advisory will the International Fund for Animal warn them about these dangers Although we have made Welfare (IFAW)↗, TRAFFIC↗, and provide an opportunity to significant progress in recent and other leading businesses. learn more. We will sometimes years, this is a rapidly evolving permanently block specific space, with traders constantly hashtags on Instagram known to adapting and obfuscating their be related to endangered species tactics to circumvent our policies to prevent users from searching and fool detection systems. for or creating them on the platform. 2023 Meta Sustainability Report 28