Global ban on fireworks and crackers now

Pets and wildlife become distressed from fireworks and crackers. Cats and dogs both experience sounds at far greater intensity than humans. Fireworks appear for them as discordant noise without warning.

The dangers are serious for wild animals like birds, squirrels, frogs and fish too. During fireworks explosions, nearby resting birds will flee in fear en masse from trees and ponds, and fly off into the night sky.

Some birds have flown so far out to sea, they would not physically have been able to return to land alive. Birds can crash into buildings, get lost and disoriented and literally fall, by the thousands, onto communities.

Research also shows that microplastics from the fireworks enter the water system.

Please pass a global ban the use of fireworks now.