Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals, Veterinary Services, Wildlife Preservation & Protection
Mission: World Animal Protection is an international animal welfare organization. We were known as WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). Our vision is a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty has ended.
Programs: Animal welfare programs: in 2014, world animal protection successfully improved the welfare of millions of animals around the world, in communities, in farming, in disasters, and in the wild. We exposed the suffering of wildlife used for tourist entertainment with our new campaign aimed at keeping wild animals in the wild, educating over 473,000 people on the hidden cruelty behind elephant rides. We also convinced 23 international tour operators to stop offering elephant rides altogether. 2014 saw the completion of our sanctuary for rescued bears in romania, now a permanent home for 81 bears. And we protected 190,000 dogs from the senseless culling triggered by people's fear of rabies, by working with governments, partners and communities to deliver vaccination programs around the world. In 2014,11 more bears in pakistan were rescued from the "blood sport" of bear baiting, whereby they are trapped, chained, and forced to endure attacks by trained dogs in front of a paying audience. They now live safely at the world animal protection-funded balkasar sanctuary. Seven bear owners have benefited from our alternative livelihood program and are now proud shop owners. They have all signed an agreement to never purchase another bear again. The number of bears used for bear baiting has decreased from 300 bears in 1997, when we began this project, to approximately 40 today. We protected marine animals from the threat of abandoned fishing gear, known as ghost gear, by working with partners to remove over 800 pounds of discarded gear, traps, lines and plastics from hawaii's big island and the new hampshire coastline. 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of world animal protection's work protecting animals caught in disasters. Our relief efforts following the devastation of 2013's typhoon haiyan continued in 2014; we have helped over 70,000 animals in the philippines following that disaster. We achieved critical change for millions of farm animals through our global partnership with nestl, the world's biggest food company. Nestl has committed to work with us to improve the welfare of the farm animals in its supply chain, which means the hundreds of thousands of farms that supply nestl with its dairy, meat, poultry and eggs will have to comply with higher animal welfare standards. Brf, brazil's largest pork producer, also signed a partnership agreement with world animal protection to improve animal welfare throughout its supply chain. Brf made an incredible first commitment to phase out gestation crates for pigs in favor of more humane group housing over a twelve-year period. We thank our supporters for moving the world to protect animals!
Mission: World Animal Protection is an international animal welfare organization. We were known as WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). Our vision is a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty has ended.
Programs: Animal welfare programs: in 2014, world animal protection successfully improved the welfare of millions of animals around the world, in communities, in farming, in disasters, and in the wild. We exposed the suffering of wildlife used for tourist entertainment with our new campaign aimed at keeping wild animals in the wild, educating over 473,000 people on the hidden cruelty behind elephant rides. We also convinced 23 international tour operators to stop offering elephant rides altogether. 2014 saw the completion of our sanctuary for rescued bears in romania, now a permanent home for 81 bears. And we protected 190,000 dogs from the senseless culling triggered by people's fear of rabies, by working with governments, partners and communities to deliver vaccination programs around the world. In 2014,11 more bears in pakistan were rescued from the "blood sport" of bear baiting, whereby they are trapped, chained, and forced to endure attacks by trained dogs in front of a paying audience. They now live safely at the world animal protection-funded balkasar sanctuary. Seven bear owners have benefited from our alternative livelihood program and are now proud shop owners. They have all signed an agreement to never purchase another bear again. The number of bears used for bear baiting has decreased from 300 bears in 1997, when we began this project, to approximately 40 today. We protected marine animals from the threat of abandoned fishing gear, known as ghost gear, by working with partners to remove over 800 pounds of discarded gear, traps, lines and plastics from hawaii's big island and the new hampshire coastline. 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of world animal protection's work protecting animals caught in disasters. Our relief efforts following the devastation of 2013's typhoon haiyan continued in 2014; we have helped over 70,000 animals in the philippines following that disaster. We achieved critical change for millions of farm animals through our global partnership with nestl, the world's biggest food company. Nestl has committed to work with us to improve the welfare of the farm animals in its supply chain, which means the hundreds of thousands of farms that supply nestl with its dairy, meat, poultry and eggs will have to comply with higher animal welfare standards. Brf, brazil's largest pork producer, also signed a partnership agreement with world animal protection to improve animal welfare throughout its supply chain. Brf made an incredible first commitment to phase out gestation crates for pigs in favor of more humane group housing over a twelve-year period. We thank our supporters for moving the world to protect animals!
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