ISSUE 15 2010 GLOBAL NETWORK CONNECTING WSPA MEMBER SOCIETIES WORLDWIDE

EAGLE RELEASE Rehabilitation of three injured chicks WHO ARE YOU? Getting the right message across SHARK FIN SOUP A cruel trade that is endangering species AN INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEW Enforcing wildlife law in Africa contents

Features The demand for shark fin soup...... 10 Bullfighting is banned in Catalonia!...... 24 A world of animal welfare awaits you!...... 27 A whaling update...... 32 Member society news The latest news from the network...... 3–9, 12, 23 Member society profiles Tree of Life for Animals...... 16 Animais de Rua...... 17 Association for the Protection of Animals and Plants...... 20 Dear Member Society Association of Friends and Defenders of Animals and the Environment...... 21 Kalaweit Association...... 22 Welcome to the 15th edition of Global Network.

As we come towards the end of another year, I would like to WSPA news share with you some major achievements that animal welfare The rabies problem...... 26 groups around the world have worked together to accomplish. Education online for Latin America...... 33 However, while we celebrate these successes, we also take a look at the issues that still need addressing and the many The true cost of milk?...... 34 challenges ahead of us. Masterclass I would like to share the excitement around a landmark victory Who are you and what do you want?...... 28 for the PROU campaign, which lobbied to achieve a ban on bullfighting in Catalonia (see page 24). This fantastic outcome was a culmination of years of dedicated work by animal Interview welfare groups in the region and strong support from the Talking to Ofir Drori, founder of local people. We hope this landmark vote by the Catalonian the Last Great Ape Organisation...... 13 government will set the ball rolling for other regions and countries to follow suit and ban this cruel ‘sport’. Book review We also celebrate the news that the Balinese government, Such a nuisance to die...... 35 with the help of BAWA and WSPA, has agreed to adopt the humane, scientifically-proven method of vaccinating dogs to tackle the spread of rabies (page 26). WSPA agreed to help WSPA International fund the vaccination project, which will save up to 400,000 World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) dogs from inhumane culling and tackle the spread of rabies 222 Gray’s Inn Road London WC1X 8HB within the human population. It will also help other countries United Kingdom see the benefits of this revolutionary and cost-effective model of rabies control. T: +44 (0)207 239 0500 F: +44 (0)207 239 0653 E: [email protected] Unfortunately, in other parts of the world, and for other W: www.wspa-international.org species, the situation is not so positive. The feature on shark A charity registered with the Charity Commission for finning in Costa Rica (page 10) is a sobering one. The desire England and Wales (Registered charity number 1081849) for shark fin soup is a real threat to the survival of these magnificent creatures and the horrific number of animals Editor: Michelle Clark Sub-editor: Michelle Harrison and Claire Harper affected means groups like Pretoma are fighting a tough Production: Michelle Harrison battle. Design: www.modoworks.co.uk Print: www.triangleprint.co.uk 2010 has been an impressive year for organisations in the Printed on 100 per cent recycled paper. network. I hope that through 2011 we will continue to support each other as we strive to make animals matter © WSPA 2010 around the globe. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, Thanks for all your hard work, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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Canada INDONESIA

The fight to save Lucy goes on Protecting parrots the city of Edmonton could not move forward. His opinion was that this legal action was not the correct procedure to seek a remedy for the alleged harm to Lucy. For Zoocheck Canada and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, this was a devastating blow. “Of course, we’re disappointed, but these things happen. They got off on a technicality. Our legal team doesn’t

agree with his opinion, but he’s made © Profauna his ruling. What is unfortunate in all Through their Parrot Protection this is that the overwhelming evidence Campaign, ProFauna have been from world renowned elephant experts encouraging and supporting the confirming Lucy’s poor living conditions government in North Maluku, Indonesia and inappropriate social isolation was in tackling the illegal trade in wild parrots. never heard,” said Julie Woodyer of There has been fantastic progress Zoocheck Canada. and the authorities have succeeded in Associate Chief Justice Rooke identifying the perpetrators of the trade was very clear that his ruling did not and stopping the smuggling. Forestry address Lucy’s living conditions and officers recently confiscated health. He said “While this litigation 27 chattering lories (Lorius garrulus) before the Court makes allegations from a dealer in the north of the Maluku about the health and care of Lucy, Island. The parrots were about to be this decision does not address those smuggled off the island, but the officers allegations. Rather, it addresses the succeeded in exposing the smugglers health of the legal system to properly during a patrol of the area. As the © Zoocheck © consider such allegations.” parrots were recently caught from the Zoocheck Canada and its partner Lucy the elephant is the lone elephant wild, after quarantine and veterinary groups say the decision does not at the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Canada checks they were released back into impact on their efforts to provide relief and is the most northerly elephant in their natural habitat. ProFauna will to Lucy’s suffering and other initiatives the world. Her needs simply cannot continue to work together with the local are already underway. be met at the zoo and she must be government, forestry department, local moved to a more suitable climate people and communities on parrot Zoocheck Canada immediately. protection in Maluku. In August, after weeks of waiting, W: www.zoocheck.com E: [email protected] Associate Chief Justice John Rooke Profauna ruled that the legal action against W: www.profauna.org E: [email protected]

ZIMBABWE An elephant update In the last issue we highlighted the We have received exciting news that Zimbabwe National Society for the not only are the elephants doing well and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals adapting to their new home, but that the (ZNSPCA) elephant rescue project in herd has some new members! Following which nine elephants were rescued the release, one of the females gave from a training ranch to be rehomed at birth to a healthy young baby and an Hwange National Park. older 25 year-old elephant has joined the These elephants had been original group. taken from the wild and subjected This is a special milestone for the to cruel training practices for use in reintroduction of these animals back safaris. After months of negotiation into the wild and a huge achievement to and support from the Minister of all those who took part in making this Environment and Tourism, as well happen. Congratulations! as many animal welfare groups, the elephants were successfully ZNSPCA © ZNSPCA rehabilitated. E: [email protected]

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AUSTRALIA Tasmania takes the lead

Following a state-wide newspaper by the flawed national code, and flood of supportive letters and emails advertising push by member society recommended to Minister Green that from thousands of caring Animals Animals Australia and the Brightside Tasmania lead in becoming the first Australia supporters. It is hoped that the Farm Sanctuary, Tasmania’s Primary state to outlaw this cruel practice. At the measure to ban sow stalls will become Industries Minister, Bryan Green, AWAC, Animals Australia was present effective from 2017. Until this time the announced in parliament that he will to provide crucial input on the scientific industry will be able to change practices ban cruel sow stalls in the state! and ethical arguments against confining so as to comply with the new legislation. Pigs are among the most intelligent sows in tiny stalls. species on the planet. Despite this Despite heavy lobbying from Animals Australia they have been subjected to one of Australia’s intensive pork industry, W: www.animalsaustralia.org the cruelest practices ever inflicted Minister Green has accepted this E: [email protected] on animals in Australia. Sow stalls recommendation, encouraged by a are typically used in factory farming operations across the country to isolate mothers during pregnancy. The National Code of Practice permits these animals to be confined in tiny crates, unable to turn around for months on end, denying them exercise and any quality of life. As a result, pigs suffer painful physical ailments and even depression. Until recently consumers were largely unaware of this practice, which is being banned throughout the European Union. Following the campaign, the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) recognised the cruelty permitted Images © Animals Australia Cruel sow stalls have been outlawed

THE PHILLIPINES A ban on gassing

Every month, an average of 27,600 Following this decision, PAWS held a unclaimed stray dogs in city pounds press conference with AKF and CARA, are euthanised in the Philippines. Now, where journalists were shown shocking thanks to the work of Philippine Animal footage of dogs being gassed. An online Welfare Society (PAWS), Compassion petition was launched, reaching 1,000 and Responsibility for Animals (CARA) signatures within 24 hours. Government and Animal Kingdom Foundation (AKF) officials were lobbied to issue a statement one of the most inhumane methods of that their cities would not use tambucho- euthanasia has been banned. gassing even if it was legal. The members Tambucho-gassing is a painful and of the CAW who supported the gassing lengthy method of euthanasia which were identified, and the public were causes great distress and suffering. Seven encouraged to write to them. to ten dogs are loaded into a small metal The immense public pressure arising box which is then sealed. A hose is then from media coverage led the Department connected from the exhaust pipe of a of Agriculture to instruct the CAW to vehicle to the metal box and the engine is review the situation. In August, the revved. For ten minutes the dogs can be CAW voted to remove the cruel gassing heard wailing and scratching from inside procedure from the approved methods of the box until eventually they die. euthanasia for cats and dogs. The Committee on Animal Welfare (CAW), a policy-making body which CARA decides what is illegal under the Philippine W: www.caraphil.org Animal Welfare Act had previously voted E: [email protected] that tambucho-gassing remain legal as a

cheap and easy method of euthanasia. Images © CARA No more tambucho-gassing

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BRAZIL Reaching teachers with humane education

SOS 4 Patas, an organisation which basic needs. Many of the teachers who and education authorities in attendence, promotes animal welfare and responsible participated in the Humane Education all of whom left with enthusiasm that they pet ownership in Rio de Janeiro, and Workshop felt it was so beneficial that could send the right messages to their have recently launched a humane they contacted SOS 4 Patas to request pupils: wild animals should remain in education programme. This initiative further training on these wild animal their natural habitats. will complement their existing work issues. and successful veterinary clinic which So in 2010 SOS 4 Patas organised SOS 4 Patas provides low cost sterilisations and a symposium for teachers focusing on W: www.sos4patas.org.br treatment for animals in need. the plight of captive wild animals kept as E: [email protected] In June 2009, SOS 4 Patas attended pets which was complemented by an a WSPA Humane Education Workshop exhibition open to the public. The event which inspired them to launch their own was a huge success with 60 teachers programme. They met with education authorities in two regions of Rio de Janeiro, Resende and Porto Real, who agreed that all teachers working with those authorities would receive training from SOS 4 Patas on humane education. This partnership led to over 50 teachers being trained how to teach compassion and respect towards animals. It is very common in Rio de Janerio for wild birds and small primates to be captured and kept as pets. The majority of captive wild animals suffer greatly, enduring very low standards of care often due to owners’ ignorance of their Images © SOS 4 Patas Over 60 teachers attended the wild animal workshop

ARMENIA Sharing knowledge on dogs

In July, Pro Paws held the first conference and businessmen from Armenia, Pro Paws now hopes that as a result on stray animals in the Caucasus region Georgia, Turkey and Iran. The diverse of the conference, collaboration between of Armenia. The first of its kind, this event knowledge and experience brought by agencies will develop in the near future brought international colleagues together these individuals encouraged productive to find effective humane dog population to network, exchange working practices discussions about not only the welfare management solutions. and develop new ideas. problems for stray animals but also the Presentations were given on the first social and human health implications. Pro Paws day of the conference by Dogs Trust (the These varied arguments were used to W: www.pro-paws.org UK’s largest dog welfare organisation) and open dialogue with local authorities. E: [email protected] an international veterinary advisor. A huge range of topics were discussed including how to run adoption centres and manage public awareness campaigns. A workshop demonstrated the essential elements necessary to implement humane dog population management programmes. Participants were taught how to perform initial problem assessment and learnt how to identify the sources of the stray dog population. Alongside this workshop, further discussions were held on how to introduce new legislation, community education and dog neutering programmes. The conference attracted animal protection organisations, veterinarians, municipality representatives, teachers Images © Pro Paws Discussing humane methods of dog population control 5 MS NEWS All images © Suzanne Rogers CAMBODIA Cambodia Pony Welfare Organisation

For many years humanitarian agencies have been developing work their ponies. After the workshops, representatives returned new ways to change human behaviour but only recently have to their communities to repeat the activities with the other pony those approaches been applied to help people change the way owners. With support from CPWO the communities have now they care for and work their animals. The principles of human created their own projects to improve the welfare of the ponies. behaviour change (HBC) are best explained by the phrase ‘learning by doing’. This bridges the gap between providing In Cambodia the common method for housing animals at people with information and ensuring they follow that advice night is to keep them in confined areas, often underneath the to make the necessary changes. For example, knowing the owners’ home, without food or water. At a community meeting nutritional requirements for a horse is not always the problem the owners discussed and drew what sort of stable would meet – ensuring people use that knowledge and have access to a pony’s needs and then compared it to their current stables. appropriate feed is the true challenge. CPWO has seen real changes as a result.

The Cambodia Pony Welfare Organisation (CPWO) is a national organisation which works to improve the welfare of working equines in rural Cambodia. Ponies in Cambodia often work long hours, pulling heavy loads and can suffer from severe lameness and painful wounds caused by badly fitting harnesses and carts. CPWO are tackling this through mobile veterinary services and education programmes to train owners, vets and farriers. HBC forms an integral part of these projects. Interactive learning In late 2008 and early 2009 CPWO invited representatives from 18 provinces to a series of workshops where they explored the causes of problems, considered the needs of ponies, and discussed practical solutions through interactive exercises. Using these solutions, owners can change the way they care for and

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Case study Tha is the community representative who attended the workshop from Kampong Phnom province. Since returning to his village he has expanded his pony’s stable, provides fresh drinking water at all times and ensures that the grass the pony is fed is free from pesticides. He has even included a large mosquito net to protect the pony at night!

“Because I am a community representative I wanted to change my stable before telling others to change theirs. So I re-designed my stable and other people in my village saw it and asked me about it and they then changed theirs so the pony has somewhere to rest properly. Some people say that now I have a big stable I can have more ponies in it – but I tell them it is just big enough for one pony to have room to move in.”

Not only has he transformed his own stable and made other Following the success of the HBC community projects, changes to the way he cares for CPWO contacted the Cambodian Government Department of his pony but Tha also regularly Animal Health and Production with a proposal to offer training to meets with owners in his village, village vets. and they repeat the same exercises he completed in the In May 2010 the first Equine Welfare Workshop for village vets from workshop – he has now become rural areas of Cambodia was launched. This workshop provided an HBC trainer in his own right. vets with in-depth training in pony health care including disease prevention and methods of treatment. The workshop included: A farrier from Tha’s village (see above case study) now insists that the owners complete the HBC activities about the needs • an activity to establish the needs of a pony of ponies as he is shoeing their animals. Now that owners truly • a presentation to show the signs and causes of colic (a understand the causes of problems they have been working preventable but potentially fatal condition) together to solve them. One example of this is the improvement • a presentation and group work to discuss malnourished in the condition of the roads, so there are fewer potholes for the ponies – the causes, the effects and the cure ponies to pull the cart through. • a field trip to Cambodia Country Club for practical demonstrations and activities including how to check a Far-reaching improvements pony’s vital signs. There are also wider implications of improving the welfare of ponies. As working animals, owners rely on their horses to earn a This training was considered a huge achievement by CPWO in living and support their families. Better nutrition and higher levels the movement away from traditional remedies and down the path of welfare, yield economic benefits for the owners. to better equine welfare.

“I am happy to help people in my community. I want to help Cambodia Pony Welfare Organisation the pony owners in my community by sharing what I learn. W: www.cambodiaponywelfare.org Many borrow money from banks and have problems with big E: [email protected] debt, I am very worried about them. I just want support from CPWO to help them to learn how to keep their ponies” Tha, community representative.

CPWO has been hugely successful in implementing HBC training as part of its humane education programme and provides a great example of what can be achieved when people make changes within their community. The principles used in HBC training are not restricted to working equines but can easily be applied to other areas of animal welfare as well, empowering people to make long lasting changes to animals in their community. Training village vets Rural vets in Cambodia often lack specific knowledge of equine health care and have virtually no training in equine welfare. Many village vets still rely upon traditional and often ineffective remedies to treat sick and injured ponies. These cures sometimes involve poor treatment of other animals. One example is the rubbing of monkey blood on a pony’s gums to cure colic. Wild monkeys are caught and kept tethered so they can be bled whenever necessary. This causes suffering for the monkey, doesn’t cure the pony and doesn’t educate the owner about how this illness can be prevented. 7 ms newsMS NEWS

PANAMA New homes for three lions

Animal welfare groups have won their Friends of Animals and Nature with battle to rescue three lions from a its partners, is campaigning to shut makeshift zoo at the fair in La Chorrera down the zoo. With the support of the in southern Panama. For over 40 years government’s National Environmental the fair has been managed by a board Authority (ANAM), they are trying to have of private citizens who created the zoo the native species removed and placed which holds wildlife as well as farm and at Panama City’s zoo, which has suitable domestic animals. shelter for them. The zoo, however, These the animals live in dire lacks the facilities and the knowledge to conditions. The fair has no qualified look after lions and rehoming them is an staff and no knowledge of how to care urgent problem. for animals. Proper shelter, food and Working with ANAM, WSPA and maintenance is too expensive, so the other international groups, Friends of staff ‘make-do’ with what is available. Animals and Nature are trying to move Over the years, there have been the lions to a new home. Several wildlife several complaints and attempts sanctuaries have been contacted to take by animal rights and conservation the lions and there is hope that one will groups and non-profit organisations be able to give them a new home and the to close this make-shift zoo. There quality of life they deserve. have also been anonymous reports, media coverage and evaluations by Friends of Animals and Nature government agencies confirming E: [email protected] the poor state of these animals, their management and their enclosures.

Images © Friends of Animals and Nature Terrible conditions at the zoo

ROMANIA Undercover investigations

Over 12,000 stray dogs have been outlawed in Romania. Bodies were is hoped the investigation will lead to neutered and vaccinated against rabies then transported to the incinerator in an Cernavoda and other towns cancelling in the last eight years by Save The unauthorised vehicle. their contracts with the company involved Dogs in Cernavoda, Romania. Despite Using this evidence STD have and closing down the shelter. this impressive track record the new produced a short film which highlights mayor contracted a private company to these breaches of legislation. The film Save The Dogs capture and remove stray dogs. has been distributed to journalists and W: www.savethedogs.eu Save The Dogs soon began to local politicians. A copy has also been E: [email protected] receive complaints of dogs being cruelly delivered by STD to the local police. It treated by the company during capture and at the shelter. This information led them to launch an investigation into the actions of the company. Undercover footage showed dogs being captured using metal pincers. This method of capture is illegal in Romania as it can cause severe internal damage, pain and distress. Filming inside the shelters revealed the terrible and squalid conditions the dogs had to live in. A professional cameraman was hired to film, from a rooftop overlooking the shelter, the weekly euthanasia of the dogs. The film showed dogs enduring painful injections in the thorax without Images © Save The Dogs anaesthetic – another procedure Undercover footage of the euthanasia

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PAKISTAN A tragedy in Pakistan

In August 2010, heavy monsoons hit were dead. This was a devastating blow The courage of the staff and their Pakistan causing the worst flooding for the staff, who had grown to know and response to such a devastating tragedy for 80 years. Over 20 million people love the bears like their family. has been amazing. Many of the local staff have been affected by the floods and have been personally affected, some thousands lost their lives. Three lucky bears losing their homes to the floods, but this In the midst of the devastating The three bears who had survived the did not stop their dedication in securing human tragedy, there was a terrible floods were Babu, Maylu and Sohrab. the safety of the bears they have spent animal loss. Kund Park Bear Sanctuary, Babu was confiscated from poachers years caring for. located between two major rivers, was in 2009 and, aged just five months old, at the epicentre of the flood. Despite the was taken to the sanctuary along with Pakistan Bioresource Research Centre heroic efforts of Dr Fakhar-i-Abbas and his brother, Dewa. Sadly, Dewa did not W: www.pbrc.edu.pk his team at the Pakistan Bioresource survive the floods. Three year old Maylu E: [email protected] Research Centre (PBRC) most of the 23 was rescued in 2006 and saved from bears living at the sanctuary drowned. the black market bear trade. Sohrab is a The floodwaters reached over 60ft two year old Asiatic black bear who had above river level and although a warning been living peacefully at Kund Park since system was in place, the waters rose so January 2007. These lucky bears were rapidly that the PBRC team had no time transported 160 kilometres to the near- to save the bears. The staff did all they complete, new sanctuary at Balkasar. could to try to move the bears to higher ground and stayed at the sanctuary before they had to evacuate for their A new home own safety. The damage to the sanctuary at Kund Initially it was feared that all of the Park was so severe that is seems unlikely 23 bears at Kund Park had died. But that it will be rebuilt. Fortunately the as soon as the floodwaters receded, Balkasar sanctuary is now complete and Fakhar and the team at PBRC worked will provide homes not only for Babu, around the clock to search for the Maylu and Sohrab, but for the remaining bears. Against all odds, three bears 70 or so bears still used in bear baiting were found alive amidst the debris. arenas. The team at PRBC have worked However after days of searching, the incredibly hard over the last few months team at PBRC had to face the horrible to achieve this. realisation that 20 of their beloved bears Images © PBRC The devastated sanctuary 9 FEATURE

COSTA RICA The demand for shark fin soup

Programa Restauración de Tortugas Marinas To feed this ever-growing market, industrial fishing boats tow up (Pretoma), was founded in 1997 and campaigns for to 5,000 baited hooks attached to a single ‘long line’ measuring responsible fishery policies in Costa Rica and on wider between 50 and 100 kilometres. The line is then towed issues affecting marine creatures. For the past eight across open ocean areas where sharks gather and migrate. years they have led a campaign to stop shark finning in It is estimated that as many as 100 million sharks are caught Costa Rica and to implement stricter international shark annually on long lines and slaughtered to supply the global fishing legislation. demand for fins.

Shark finning is the inhumane and environmentally damaging Once a shark is hooked on a long line and pulled close to the act of cutting off a shark’s fins at sea and then throwing the boat, a crew member electrocutes the animal with an oversized rest of the animal, often still alive, back into the ocean where cattle prod. This doesn’t always kill the shark but disables it it drowns. The fins are then used to make shark fin soup, a enough to be brought on board where other crew members delicacy and status symbol in many parts of Asia, including can hold it down and cut off the fins. No individual or species China and Taiwan. is spared. Pretoma fisheries observers have witnessed males, juveniles and pregnant females with up to 20 pups in their Declining shark populations womb finned and tossed back into the sea. Over the last 50 years, global shark populations have declined by an estimated 90 per cent and many species are now Affecting ecosystems critically endangered because of overfishing. This is directly Sharks are at the top of a food chain, having virtually no natural linked to the growing demand for shark fin soup by countries predators, and they play a critical role in maintaining the with emerging middle classes. In China and in Chinese ecosystems of the world’s oceans. Such a serious decrease restaurants around the world, shark fin soup was once in their numbers has a potentially disastrous effect on many considered a luxury item eaten only on special occasions by other species. It is feared that the state of the world’s declining society’s elite. As China’s middle class grows and the economy fish populations would be further worsened if this practice booms, so does the demand for soup. continues. This in turn would compromise the livelihoods of fishing communities around the world.

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Campaigning in Costa Rica this closure, foreign long line boats began lining up off the coast In 2004, Costa Rica was the world’s third largest exporter of near the private docks, loaded with fins and with no place shark products, with fins being the most lucrative – 1kg of dried to offload. Incopesca issued a statement saying that foreign fins can be sold for US$84, whereas 1kg of shark meat fetches boats would be allowed to dock there as long as officials less than US$1. Shark meat is, therefore, virtually worthless could gain access to the private docks and inspect the cargo. and fishermen prefer to fill their boats with fins rather than large Unfortunately this has not happened and the boats continue to bodies which will bring them little return. dock without inspection.

Pretoma worked with national and international NGOs, the The main problem is that no single government agency has Costa Rican Congress and the National Fisheries Institute taken responsibility for enforcing this law, and the reasons for (Incopesca) to draft the ‘fins-attached’ legislation, which would this are a lack of understanding of the consequences of over make shark finning illegal. Today the law states that all sharks fishing sharks combined with shark finning being very profitable. must be landed at public docks with their fins naturally attached International success to their bodies. This limits the number of sharks that can be caught per boat and means customs and fisheries officials Throughout its campaign, Pretoma has worked closely with can inspect cargo to ensure that the entire animal will be used Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs which has been commercially. However with such large financial gains to be instrumental in promoting shark conservation legislation to the made from shark finning there is a huge incentive to go around United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In 2007, the UNGA the ‘fins-attached’ law. approved text which calls on nations to adopt Costa Rica’s ‘fins-attached’ legislation. This shift in international policy was Strengthening the law a huge victory for Pretoma and other organisations working to Pretoma secretly filmed a Taiwanese ship illegally landing 30 protect sharks. tonnes of shark fins, amounting to the death of 30,000 sharks, late at night at a private dock. Because the dock was privately With global shark populations reaching a critical state, more owned the fisheries and customs officials were not allowed on international policy changes need to be implemented to better the premises to inspect the vessels cargo. Pretoma released regulate shark finning. At the same time, the ever increasing the footage to the media and the resulting shock and outrage demand for shark fin soup must also be stopped if sharks are from Costa Rican citizens led to 80,000 signatures being going to survive. Recent changes in Hawaii with the introduction collected by Pretoma calling on Costa Rica’s president to of legislation making it illegal to possess, sell or distribute shark close the private docks. In November 2004, a resolution was fins, make the Pacific island the first to introduce such a shark issued closing the private docks – a major success for shark protection law. Pretoma has high hopes that Costa Rica will protection. strengthen the enforcement of existing legislation and eventually work towards becoming a shark-fin free country. Unfortunately a second resolution was passed which directly contradicted the first and allowed foreign boats to once again Pretoma land at private docks, a decision thought to be fuelled by W: www.pretoma.org corruption. A further attempt at closing private docks was E: [email protected] launched in 2007 but unfortunately met a similar fate. During All images © Andy Bystrom, Pretoma

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USA Flying high with bald eagles

In the United States, the bald eagle is a LTWC released the young bald flew off. About 10 minutes later, one eagle national symbol – an icon of power, grace eagle on the day of its annual volunteer returned and circled the LTWC staff and and beauty. But even this strong dynamic luncheon in October. Everybody was volunteers before soaring away. animal needs protecting. Lake Tahoe invited to travel to the a site overlooking LTWC volunteer Dale Schornack, Wildlife Care (LTWC), an NGO in California a lake, to witness the release. What a television reporter, videotaped the that rehabilitates and releases orphaned occurred was something that has never eagle’s release which can be viewed or injured wild animals, recently had the happened to LTWC before – when at www.news10.net/news/local/story. privilege of treating three of these they released the bird, within just a few aspx?storyid=68585 precious creatures. seconds, two other bald eagles came out One of the injured bald eagles was of the woods to ‘meet’ the young eagle. Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care brought to LTWC after it was found in the All three birds landed in the tree tops W: www.ltwc.org dirt by the highway. He was just a fledgling about 1,000 feet below the area and then E: [email protected] and too young to stand on a perch. He spent his first few weeks at the centre in a Merganser cage, where he sat on plywood covered with carpeting and placed over a hot tub. Within a few months, he was strong enough to start exercising in the meadow. The centre’s staff began the exercise programme using a creance, a long light cord used to tether an eagle during training. He was not able to fly more than 30 feet during his first two attempts but soon gained enough strength to be introduced back into the wild. Images © Webb Canepa A young eagle has a flying lesson

NEW ZEALAND Education for all

Following its initial success in 2008, discussed how their organisations had RNZSPCA are already planning for the the South Pacific Humane Education moved their education programmes next event! Conference was held again this year forward since the last conference in Auckland, New Zealand. The event in 2008. The region as a whole is RNZSPCA attracted organisations from across producing innovative work in this field W: www.rnzspca.org.nz the South Pacific and Asia, including and conferences such as this encourage E: [email protected] Papua New Guinea, Nepal and Hong sharing and collaboration between animal Kong. Participants came to share their welfare organisations. knowledge and learn about delivering effective humane education programmes in their countries. The conference, titled ‘Delivering animal welfare education to diverse communities’, focused on including humane education in community projects and evaluating the success of such programmes. A strong emphasis was also placed on considering the diversity of cultures when implementing such projects. WSPA co-presented the event with Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RNZSPCA) and also supported the attendance of member societies and speakers from around the Pacific Islands. Attendees gave excellent feedback about this year’s conference and © RNZSPCA Some conference attendees 12 INTERVIEW © LAGA AFRICA Enforcing wildlife law, protecting great apes

In this issue we talk to Ofir Drori, founder In my head was the voice of Jane Goodall stating that gorillas and of the Last Great Ape Organisation chimps will disappear in 20 years if the bushmeat trade doesn’t stop and I decided this would be the subject of my next article. I (LAGA), the only wildlife law enforcement thought that three relaxing weeks would get me an article which NGO in Africa. exposed the problem and directed the public to donate to those who fight against this dark prophecy.

How did you get involved in animal Most of the article was easy to get – sharing time with the chimps protection and why? and gorillas and finding out how like humans they really are. I saw the bush meat sold openly, the authorities collecting bribes and I was a photo-journalist writing about human rights issues in the taking part in the trade, and the shocking fact that for a decade worst conflict zones in Africa. I was in the middle of an article there was not a single prosecution of a wildlife criminal in almost about the stoning of women in North Nigeria in a town that was all Central and West Africa. But then when it came to the light covered in murals and stickers supporting Osama Bin Laden. at the end of the tunnel I found a far bigger problem instead One day my hosts told me they had been contacted to organise – a conservation world of waste and ineffectiveness focused my killing, so I decided to move to Cameroon. on workshops instead of tackling the major obstacle to the

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application of conservation law – corruption. I started researching When did LAGA form; and what are you why the law hadn’t been enforced even once since it was put in trying to achieve? place, with a focus on corruption and innovative ways to fight it.

During my research I visited a small, remote town with an Last Great Ape Organisation (LAGA) was born in 2003 out of extensive ape trade. I was led to an infant survivor of the criticism against the conservation world. The idea was to show bushmeat trade – a baby chimp, tied up abused and sick, in a that conservation doesn’t need more money, more 4x4s or more dirty room. His eyes were like those of a small child, but nobody consultants flown in, it needs activists, volunteers, who fight for seemed to notice. It was horrible and I knew that if I did nothing, what they believe. We tried to build it differently from what existed he would die. When the authorities refused to act, I bluffed the in Cameroon, breaking away from the traditional role of an NGO poachers into handing him over. I untied his ropes and hugged and finding legitimacy in a far more hands-on approach. But him and he clung to my chest like it was an island of safety. creating the first ever law enforcement NGO has not been easy and has met a lot of resistance. I named him Future, because that is what I wanted to give him and what I want to give his species. He would have died before While there are some location-specific projects in the region reaching the third year of his life; now he has the chance to reach that address the issue of illegal wildlife trade, LAGA is the only 50 and the chance to outlive me. The day I saved Future was the one working at national level, with the government, to improve day I decided to stay and pioneer a wildlife law enforcement NGO wildlife law enforcement across an entire country. Most of LAGA’s fighting to save the last great apes from extinction. work is concentrated on fighting against corruption – a unique approach to conservation. My deep love of Africa turned me into an activist. My values of respect and peace between people and nature turned me into a We built an investigations department, an operations unit, a legal passionate conservationist. I believe that defending wildlife from follow-up team and a media department. With that and a lot of extinction is our moral obligation, and a cause worth dedicating sweat, tears and daily fights against corruption, we have started one’s life to. to put some of the bigger wildlife dealers behind bars.

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What are the main animal protection Have you witnessed any major programmes you work on and which parts improvements in animal welfare in do you enjoy the most? Cameroon over recent years?

Well I must say that the most enjoyable time is when we rescue We have seen the trust break down between wildlife dealers. baby apes and can spend a little bit of time with them – I can feel This has a huge impact as the wildlife trade relies on this trust connected back to the reason I started all this. Most of our work between the different links in the trade chain. The government is risky and tiring, so I do get a lot of satisfaction when we get and other NGOs are realising it is essential to deter wildlife crime a big dealer behind bars and when we are able to rescue and and implement law enforcement. But there is still a long way to release live animals. go and the illegal wildlife trade is still a major threat to endangered species in Cameroon. What do you feel is LAGA’s greatest achievement? Where do you see LAGA in five years?

LAGA has succeeded in shifting Cameroon from no wildlife There is an urgent need to address the problem of wildlife law prosecutions in ten years to an enforcement rate of one major enforcement at regional and international level, as many wildlife wildlife dealer prosecuted per week. It has brought about the first crimes are carried across national borders. The experience major prosecutions of illegal wildlife dealers not only in Cameroon from Cameroon proved it is possible to provide measurable but in the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. standards for the effectiveness of law enforcement: the number LAGA has won the Clark Bavin award for outstanding of major wildlife law violators receiving and serving a sentence. achievements in wildlife law enforcement, and its work with the Unfortunately in most countries in the Central and Western government of Cameroon won the Interpol Ecomessage award. African sub-regions there have still been no prosecutions for wildlife crime. To tackle this we collaborate with existing structures; strengthening and supporting them to play a similar role to the one LAGA is undertaking in Cameroon. LAGA’s vision is that by bringing about results with this new approach we can change the existing system and trigger a shift in the way NGOs tackle wildlife crime. In five years I hope to advance from limited national efforts to the establishment of sub-regional wildlife law enforcement needed to combat the international illegal trade.

Outside of wildlife, I am a founder of another NGO – Anti Corruption Organisation – that is set to establish anti-corruption law enforcement, assist victims and fight corruption in the NGO sector. I hope to get landmark prosecutions of citizens’ mass action against corrupt government officials throughout the sub-region and increase accountability and transparency in the NGO business in central Africa. I am also involved in many other projects from monitoring the next elections here, to child trafficking, to education for activism, so I hope that in five years time they all bear fruit.

Last Great Ape Organisation W: www.laga-enforcement.org E: [email protected]

What are the main difficulties that you face in Cameroon and how do these affect your work?

The main reason for the lack of enforcement and application of the wildlife law is corruption and is not restricted to wildlife. Our statistics of more than 250 cases show that corruption is the most significant factor preventing the application of law. Lobbying, building capacity, integrity trainings, creation of anti- corruption instruments and institutions were all proven ineffective in tackling corruption in the judiciary and enforcement bodies. This highlights the importance of finding a new, more active role for civil society in the fight against corruption in the enforcement and application of laws.

We do not consider this as affecting our work, it is our work – the presence of corruption is the reason for our existence. Confiscated wildlife products

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INDIA Tree of Life for Animals

In eight villages in Ajmer district of Rajasthan, Tree would have the most positive impact on livelihoods. The most of Life for Animals (TOLFA) has been conducting an common health problems in goats were identified and the best exciting pilot study for a rural development project. ways to prevent and treat them were discussed. TOLFA already runs a clinic offering free treatment of animals every afternoon in the local veterinary hospital Community animal health workers grounds. However, many villagers cannot reach the The next stage for TOLFA will be to select and train one person clinic or only bring in an animal when the problem has from each village to be the CAHW. The role of the CAHWs will become serious. be to organise regular vaccination and deworming clinics, to give advice on nutrition and husbandry, to treat basic veterinary As a result, TOLFA aims to organise a network of community problems and to assist with difficult births. It is hoped that there animal health workers (CAHWs) who can provide assistance will soon be a mobile clinic which can be called out in order to at the villages and prevent problems before they arise or treat deal with problems beyond the capability of the CAHWs. The them before they become serious. A survey was carried out long-term aim is to create self-sufficiency in the villages in basic over three to five days in each village. Individual livestock veterinary care and if successful extend the scheme to a owners and the chief of each village were asked about animal wider area. health, their approach to veterinary treatment (traditional and modern methods) and current access to veterinary services. Tree of Life for Animals The villagers welcomed the idea of having CAHWs. W: www.tolfa.org.uk E: [email protected] The results Diseases within the villagers’ livestock are common and often very persistent. The survey showed that the main contributing factors to this were a lack of food and water, and limited veterinary treatment. The low rainfall in 2009 caused a shortage of animal feed which has had serious implications for both owner and animal. The poor nutrition affects animal health and some of the poorest owners have had to sell their animals as they cannot afford to feed them. TOLFA has also seen a rise in the number of goats with reproductive problems compared to the previous year, as a result of malnutrition.

A seasonal calendar of diseases was produced so veterinary interventions could be planned for the year. Goats were ranked as the most important species for a family’s survival. It was

decided to concentrate initially on improving goat health as this Images © TOLFA Villagers rely on their livestock 16 MS PROFILE

PORTUGAL Animais de Rua

Animais de Rua was formed in 2005 when a group of a including the cities of Porto, Lisbon and Lagos. It has formed friends got together to raise funds to sterilise a colony of partnerships with various other animal protection organisations 47 cats living in horrible conditions in Oporto, Portugal. in other cities. Over the last five years they have sterilised The money was successfully raised and all the cats were approximately 4,500 animals and hope to build on this and sterilised, treated for parasites and given veterinary cover even wider areas across the country. Local governments care. The kittens were put up for adoption. have also been requesting training from Animais de Rua so they can run their own TNR programmes. The difference in the quality of life for the cats was immediately obvious. They were transformed from malnourished, ill cats with The unique contribution Animais de Rua has made over the frequent infected wounds, into healthy cats with shiny coats. last five years was recognised this year when their President, This transformation, combined with stories of unwanted litters Maria Teixeira Pinto, was awarded The Active Woman Award. being drowned and puppies dying of disease, convinced the This award is very prestigious and recognises the talent, friends to continue their work with other strays. Animais de Rua commitment and dedication of women who contribute to was born. improving the lives of others. Maria was presented her award by the First Lady of Portugal, Maria Cavaco Silva, and was By 2008, the organisation had treated 1,300 animals and what commended for leaving her career as a lawyer to dedicate her started as an informal group of animal welfarists soon became life to making a difference to the lives of street animals. inundated with requests for help. That year the group became legally registered as an animal welfare charity and hired two Animais de Rua full-time, paid members of staff to deal with the large number W: www.animaisderua.org of animals in need. The organisation continued to grow and E: [email protected] had soon begun fundraising, developing media contacts and establishing strong relationships with local government. This higher profile and organised approach to fundraising were crucial in meeting the large demand for help and in 2009 alone, over 1,600 animals were treated. Out on the streets Animais de Rua operates in a different way to shelter-based animal welfare organisations. While recognising the importance of shelters in finding new homes for abandoned animals, they aim to stop the breeding cycle by putting resources into sterilisation using a method called trap, neuter and return (TNR).

Now a recognised national organisation with nearly 100 Images © Animais de Rua Villagers rely on their livestock volunteers, Animais de Rua works all over Portugal, Trap, neuter and return 17

© Andy Bystrom, Pretoma MS PROFILE Images © APAP COLOMBIA Association for the Protection of Animals and Plants

Working in the city of Pereira, in the heart of the coffee Working horses land of Colombia, the Association for the Protection of As part of the relief work for overworked and abused working Animals and Plants (APAP) provides a lifeline for stray horses APAP relies on a facility built in the back of the wildlife dogs and working horses, as well as wildlife caught in rehabilitation centre thanks to a WSPA donation some illegal trade and the animal victims of disasters. years ago. The four stalls, the enclosure for giving birth, the Stray dogs examination room and the storage room enable APAP to treat animals and provide them with space to rest and recuperate. Large numbers of unwanted dogs roam the city streets in With WSPA’s help, APAP have also trained horse owners in Colombia. APAP rescues and shelters dogs, relocating about proper management and care of their animals and now work 250 a year to responsible new homes. A half-price sterilisation with authorities to check the condition of horses on the streets. scheme is encouraging people to spay or neuter their animals to avoid unwanted puppies, many of which are abandoned on Disaster relief the streets. Targeting the route of the stray problem, APAP also Animals are often the forgotten victims of natural disasters. In distributes its responsible pet ownership materials at public and 1999, Colombia was struck by the strongest earthquake the veterinary events and in the clinic. country had witnessed in recent times. This had a devastating Wildlife effect on humans and animals alike. APAP came to the aid of many suffering animals affected by the quake, providing APAP’s wildlife rehabilitation centre in the countryside of Pereira veterinary relief, shelter and food. is located near a natural reserve and is of vital importance in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Working with the local Looking forward environmental agency they take in animals that are confiscated The future looks better for the animals of Pereira. APAP wants by the environmental police. In a country with an abundance of to strengthen its educational work by building an auditorium exotic animals, this trade is a huge problem and animals such at the wildlife centre to teach local students to preserve as monkeys, turtles, parrots and macaws are taken from the biodiversity and protect animal welfare. In this way APAP wild just to be sold to tourists. hopes to educate a new generation of compassionate citizens who would be able to make decisions that benefit animals Many of the animals taken into the centre are very young and in the future. With training from WSPA, APAP is improving can still be rehabilitated and released back into the wild. For administrative protocols and undertaking fundraising activities those that are too old, too sick or have not learned survival that enable the organisation to be sustainable and to have a skills to return to the wild, the enriched enclosures at APAP’s stronger impact on animal welfare locally. rehabilitation centre offer a safe home. Without this centre, many confiscated animals would be placed in the zoo to live out Association for the Protection of Animals and Plants the rest of their lives in small cages. The dedicated staff at the W: www.protectorapereira.com centre monitor the animals’ health and emotional welfare on a E: [email protected] regular basis and ensure the animals’ dietary needs are met.

20 MS PROFILE Images © AADAMA BRAZIL Association of Friends and Defenders of Animals and the Environment

Last July, 67 cities were partially destroyed by floods The organisation works on the belief that animals must be in the Pernambuco State of Brazil, endangering both respected and have their needs met because they are living humans and animals. Association of Friends and beings that form an integral part of the web of life. AADAMA Defenders of Animals and the Environment (AADAMA) focuses on the following areas of work: established contact with the official rescue teams and journalists that had been allowed to visit the area and Education obtained information about the animal need. It was clear Providing lectures for students, the local community, that many animals were suffering and needed aid. teachers and other segments of society, focusing on the following issues: AADAMA teamed up with the State Department of Health, WSPA-Brazil and another local member society, Gato Feliz • responsible pet ownership & Cia, to provide immediate help for animal victims. WSPA’s • the formation of values, animals and the culture of peace partnership with Pedigree and Merial, resulted in the donation • the animal abuse and human violence link. of dog food, bowls and vaccines, which were taken to the communities affected by the floods. AADAMA gathered Interaction further donations from other animal protection organisations to Working with state and local government authorities, civil purchase more supplies. and military police, the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, and other segments of society, to discuss public policies and the In the wake of this disaster, AADAMA has maintained a good establishment of actions to ensure animal rights and welfare. relationship with the State Department of Health and with Dra Nara Arruda, the head of the Zoonosis Unit, who sent his Partnership team into the disaster area. In the event of future disasters, this Planning events and building partnerships with other NGOs that collaborative approach means more animals can be reached develop related work. and protected. A strong network of partnerships is also important in building the foundations of a culture where animals Association of Friends and Defenders are considered alongside humans during emergencies. of Animals and the Environment E: [email protected] Maria Padilha, founder and president of AADAMA, stated: “Hopefully this will remain as a contribution of AADAMA to the people of Pernambuco and the animals affected by tragedies in the State.”

Maria spent 11 years as an educator in the field and researcher of animal rights and welfare, before becoming an activist and advocate in the city of Recife. In 2004 she founded AADAMA. 21 MS PROFILE

BORNEO AND SUMATRA Kalaweit Association

For the last 12 years, the staff at the the forest, live in couples and protect their Kalaweit has also been on the Kalaweit Association have dedicated territories. Each animal goes through television. The British Broadcasting themselves to the conservation of seven steps. Corporation (BBC) produced a series gibbons in Indonesia. Young gibbons that was seen in England, France and are frequently sold as pets in Indonesia. • Arrival: in collaboration of the ministry other parts of Europe. This series is set For each baby on the market, an entire of forestry to hit America and 15 other countries this family of gibbons will have been killed. • Quarantine and medical tests: year and a second series is also in the However, when they reach maturity Hepatitis A, B, C, Tuberculosis, Herpes pipeline. at the age of seven, they become • Identification: recording the There are still many challenges to aggressive and the owners kill them. individual’s taxonomy face. There is a serious lack of veterinary Gibbons are now in danger of becoming • Socialisation: within groups and skills within in Indonesia as most vets extinct in Indonesia. within pairs only have basic knowledge and have Kalaweit was founded in 1999 with • Mating: observations that the gibbon no experience of dealing with wildlife. the aim of rehabilitating gibbons and can mate successfully Deforestation still goes on at an alarming returning them to the wild. However, • Follow-up medical tests: Hepatitis A, rate as the demand for timber and palm much of the native forest has been B, C, Tuberculosis, Herpes oil grows. But Kalaweit has developed cleared for the production of palm oil • Release following the IUCN guidelines. a good working relationship with the and timber. Due to this deforestation, government to address these issues and there is a high concentration of surviving However, without the forest, these stop poaching and wildlife exploitation. gibbons in existing forest and this primates have no future. causes territoriality issues and fighting. Kalaweit Association As a result Kalaweit was forced to build Raising profile W: www.kalaweit.org two sanctuaries – one in Sumatra and A huge part of Kalaweit’s success E: [email protected] one in Borneo. is community education. By involving Today Kalaweit is the biggest gibbon them in the work, local villagers become rehabilitation organisation in the world, ambassadors for Kalaweit and begin to providing sanctuary for 250 gibbons respect the native animals and protect and siamangs. And some gibbons do their habitat. One of the most effective get to return to their natural habitat. But ways to reach a large audience is through rehabilitation involves a long training Kalaweit’s very-own radio station. More process to ensure the animal is in the than 40,000 people tune in to the station best of health and has the essential and 60 per cent of the calls received skills for survival in the wild. They have about the poaching of gibbons come to learn how to find food, move through from these listeners. Images © Kalaweit Association Gibbons play at the sanctuary 22 MS NEWS

CANADA Big hearts

Dogs have a significant role in the most cannot afford. As part of their lives of Canada’s First Nations people. work with the community, BHR provides For centuries, they were relied upon veterinary clinics providing basic care to hunt, work, provide food, wool such as vaccinations, health checks as and companionship, and were the well as sterilisations. BHR met with the subjects of myth and legend. Today, community chief to discuss humane while dogs still play an important role, animal welfare, reducing disease some communities are struggling to transmission between animals and cope with the problem of strays and children and excitingly, the possibility of a overpopulation. Many communities community-supported sterilisation by-law. are remote, with little or no access to veterinarians, and as a result the dogs Big Heart Rescue are generally in poor health. W: www.bigheartrescue.com Big Heart Rescue (BHR) is based in E: [email protected] British Columbia and organises clinics in First Nations communities offering veterinary care, education and providing advice for the community on how to manage their dog population. They give practical assistance when needed, provide pet food when the community is struggling to feed the animals and offer sterlisation. Bella Coola, a First Nations community, has little access to veterinary care – the closest vet is seven hours away, a long trip that Images © Big Heart Rescue Dogs finally get the treatment they need COLOMBIA The anti-cruelty guide

Colombian member society Asociacion started six months ago with a radio spot being replicated in other towns in the de Egresados Defenzoores, with the that reached more than 600,000 people. region, aiming to achieve the first cruelty- help of WSPA, have developed an But, the bullfighting industry in Medellin is free territory in the country. anti-cruelty guide to boost its campaign fighting back by selling tickets at bargain against the bullfighting industry in the prices or giving them away for free to Defenzoores modern city of Medellin, northwest encourage people to attend. W: www.defenzoores.org Colombia. This guide is helping to raise The anti-bullfighting campaign is E: [email protected] awareness of the enormous cruelty involved in this bloody sport and lists the carnivals people should not attend because they include bullfighting events. Over 7,000 pocket-size versions of the anti-cruelty guide were distributed during the last Carnival of Flowers, a traditional 10-day event attended by thousands of locals and tourists that takes place every year in Medellin. The carnival includes a large number of shows, unfortunately not all of them related to flowers – thousands of revellers take part in parades on horseback and attend bullfights. The large-scale efforts by Defenzoores to get their anti-bullfighting message heard by the community and to decrease attendance to the bullfights © Defenzoores The anti-cruelty guide helps people make ethical decisions

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International Bullfighting is banned in Catalonia!

Last July, WSPA celebrated with Catalonian citizens The voice of the people as the Parliament voted in favour of a ban on bullfighting The vote that took place in July was the culmination of years in this region of Spain. The ban is a tremendous of hard work and campaigning by animal welfare groups all victory for the thousands of Catalonian people who over the world, including WSPA. Local organisations joined to took this issue to parliament, and an inspiration for form political lobby group ‘PROU’ – which means ‘Enough’ in the international campaign against the cruelty of Catalan – and have campaigned tirelessly for months to end bullfighting. The ban has set a strong example for the the cruelty suffered by bulls in bullrings each year. To force the rest of the world to follow. regional parliament to act on their demand, PROU used a tool called ‘popular legislative initiative’ or PLI. Under Catalonian Bullfights are a shocking spectacle during which bulls are law, the parliament must hold a debate on a request put repeatedly stabbed with long lances and barbed harpoons forward by the public, provided they can provide 50,000 (‘banderillas’) before having their neck mortally pierced with a signatures from Catalonian citizens within 120 days. sword. This results in the death of an estimated 250,000 bulls each year, primarily in South America and Europe. Bulls are PROU forced a vote by collecting an impressive 180,000 not the only victims of this cruelty: horses are used in Spanish signatures in favour of a ban on bullfights, during the allocated bullfights and they often get accidentally gored by bulls. 120-day period. More specifically, they requested that the These acts of animal cruelty are done solely for the sake of parliament revise the existing Catalonian animal welfare law entertainment and are permitted by law. that protected all animals except bulls and horses used in bullfights – a law which allows 100 bulls die each year. PROU For several years, the people of Catalonia have demanded and their PLI requested the parliament put an end to this. their elected representatives to ban bullfighting. This call remained unanswered, despite the hundreds of thousands On equal footing of petitions that were delivered and the many cities, including Essential to the success of the PROU ‘brand’ was that it the region’s capital, Barcelona, becoming anti-bullfighting. was independent of any local animal welfare organisations Over the years, bullfighting has lost popularity in the region. and therefore not one organisation could take credit for its Only one fifth of the seats were occupied at the 2009 season’s success. This approach established trust between the groups opening of Barcelona’s bullring, La Monumental. involved and a neutral ground on which they could work.

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As reported in a previous issue of Global network, a first vote The objective of the advocacy action and subsequent took place in the regional parliament in December 2009 to handover of names was to directly influence Catalonian determine whether the PLI was worth consideration. This vote members of parliament (MPs) in their vote by highlighting resulted in success and the PLI process was taken forward. In international support for the ban, and through international March, the Parliament’s Environmental Committee suggested media coverage of the handover of names, further influence amendments. They approved the PLI under the condition those same MPs. The president of the Catalonian Parliament, that a ban would be enforced from January 2012. After many Ernest Benach, met WSPA Netherlands campaign manager, delays, a final vote was scheduled for the July 2010. Dirk Jan Verdonk, and was handed the signatures that were collected by WSPA offices worldwide. During that meeting, President Benach expressed his support for a ban. Success at last On 28 July, the Catalonian Parliament voted to approve the amendment of the current animal protection legislation and consequently banned bullfighting within the region. Sxity-eight MPs voted in favour, while 55 voted against the ban (there were 12 abstentions), meaning that the ban was achieved with an absolute majority. This shows that a significant number of MPs agreed with their citizens that this ‘traditional’ practice should be relegated to Catalonia’s past.

The ban will come into effect in January, 2012. From that date on, bulls will no longer suffer a slow, painful and terrifying death in Catalonia’s bullrings.

WSPA has produced a written and video case study to present our anti-bullfighting campaign. Member societies that are interested in getting a copy of this video should contact their regional WSPA office. International pressure To support PROU’s work, in November 2009 WSPA launched an international advocacy action. Supporters were asked to sign a global petition urging the Catalonian government to support local demands for a ban on bullfighting. Thanks to the network of supporters and with the help of comedian Ricky Gervais and the Humane Society International, a total of 165,000 people from 120 countries took action.

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BALI The rabies problem

Globally, rabies kills over 55,000 people every year. More Once the vaccinations within a village had been completed, than 99 per cent of human rabies cases are transmitted by a survey team moved in to assess the ratio of marked to the bites of infected dogs. Governments frequently use the unmarked dogs. If 70 per cent or above had been vaccinated, inhumane mass culling of dogs to try and stop the spread of the team’s job was done. If below this, the team returned to the disease. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) deliver more vaccinations. states: “There is no evidence that removal of dogs alone has ever had a significant impact on dog population densities or By the end of May 2010, 44,776 dogs had been vaccinated the spread of rabies.” in Gianyar. This was 87 per cent of the estimated 51,283 dog population. An alternative to inhumane culling is a mass vaccination programme. By vaccinating 70 per cent of a dog population Celebrating success the spread of rabies can be controlled. And the prevention Since the completion of the vaccinations, there has been a of rabies by mass vaccination is less expensive than treating huge drop in rabies cases in dogs in Gianyar. This is fantastic people bitten by unvaccinated dogs. news and suggests that the outbreak has been contained by the surrounding vaccinated dog population. The quick Historically Bali has been free from rabies. However, an response to suspect rabies cases by BAWA and local animal outbreak hit in 2009, spreading across the island and killing health teams has also helped achieve this outcome. 93 people. In response, 100,000 dogs were inhumanely culled in an attempt to control the disease. Although there was some Further to this, there have been no human rabies cases vaccination, the coverage was not enough to be effective. reported since the completion of the pilot project. The region will continue to be monitored and compared to other regions Mass vaccination within Bali that have not undergone mass vaccination. At the end of 2009, Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) and WSPA developed a pilot project to trial a mass vaccination of the dog population in Gianyar (a region of Bali) in agreement with the government. BAWA teams spread through the towns and villages following the below steps.

Move door to door vaccinating pet dogs or those brought 1. to them by owners.

Use nets to catch and vaccinate dogs that 2. are difficult to handle.

Fit vaccinated dogs with collars or mark them with 3. temporary paint. 4. Present owners with vaccination certificates.

Release un-owned dogs (many of these will be owned, 5. but the owner is not present at the time of capture). 6. Record the vaccinations. 26 FEATURE

INTernational A world of animal welfare awaits you!

Last year we launched Animal Welfare Online – our New posted events new and exciting bank of resources, where animal UFAW Sympossium 2011 organisations from around the globe can share ideas - Portsmouth, England. 28 – 29 June 2011 and knowledge. The site has been a huge success The aim of this conference is to consider economic aspects attracting thousands of visitors who have been of animal welfare – economic incentives and constraints – and uploading and downloading publications, searching for the societal attitudes of which these are a reflection. jobs and learning of new events. Here is just a taster of some of the most recent uploads and updates by The 6th International Colloquium on Working Equids member societies on Animal Welfare Online… - New Delhi, India. 29 November – 2 December 2010 A unique gathering where keynote speakers from the fields of New uploads international development, social science, human health and education interact with animal scientists, veterinarians, project A Beginner’s Guide to Stress Across Species: Recognizing, managers and field workers from the world of working horses, preventing, and reducing stress in birds and small mammals donkeys and mules. - An excellent summary of the signs of stress in different species found in shelters and easy methods to reduce this. Recently posted jobs Challenges and solutions of good equine practice Legal Counsel - A report that presents the findings of a study assessing - This position was advertised by Voiceless, an Australian threats to horse welfare in Ireland, current solutions and organisation who aim to influence law and public policy in success stories. It aims to identify best practice and inform Australia by conducting research and exposing legalised cruelty. development of relevant policy. Chief Executive Officer Fundraising: Using social networking - This position was advertised by Greek Animal Welfare Fund - This document provides an overview of the main social who provide Greek animal protection societies with project networking sites and ideas of how to use these sites to funding, expert assistance, training and practical help. promote your organisation and to raise funds. In addition to paid jobs AWO also advertises a variety of volunteer How to bring more prospective adopters to your website positions from around the world. These not only provide an - A brief article with practical tips to help you increase traffic invaluable insight to how organisations in other countries and to your website, raise awareness of your organisation and cultures function, but can be a valuable addition to your resume, improve your chances of finding adoptive homes for the all while helping another animal welfare organisation. animals you care for. So if you want to tell people about an event or have a new Shelter enrichment resource you want to share with the rest of the animal welfare - A practical document for shelter workers recognising stress world, get online at www.animalwelfareonline.org. Make in cats and dogs in a shelter environment and a guide to sure you aren’t missing out on the most up-to-date animal increase enrichment. welfare news and publications! www.animalwelfareonline.org 27 MASTERCLASS

INTERNATIONAL Who are you and what do you want?

As animal welfare organisations we all want animals to be You need to make your writing readable… if the wording is too treated better. However, which animal welfare issues we target complicated no-one will read it. Your reader should be able to and how we work to improve animal welfare varies for each read the sentence once to understand its message. organisation. These differences mean that we all communicate in unique ways, but we can consider the following questions • Swap long, difficult words for simpler ones – use ‘begin’ which can help make us effective: instead of ‘commence’; use ‘help’ instead of ‘assistance’ and so on. • Who are you talking to? • Be concise – if it can be said in five words, why use ten? • What are you trying to say? • Break up your text into bite size chunks with short • What pictures should you use? paragraphs and subtitles. • Is your message consistent? • Avoid jargon and technical terms, even if you believe your audience should recognise them. Who are you talking to? You should consider your audience before you begin on any What pictures should you use? project. Asking yourself the following three questions will help A picture speaks a thousand words – this means that you to decide what your message should be and how you choosing the right image is just as important as choosing the should deliver it. right words.

• Who is my audience? This could be supporters, media, Pictures of animals can interest your audience and encourage government, businesses, animal owners and so on. You will them to read your material, especially if they are vibrant and need to communicate to these audiences in different ways. colourful. Images of animals in distress can evoke strong • What do I want my audience to think and/or feel? Do you emotions like anger and sadness, which are powerful ways to want to make them angry, sad, empathetic, proud of your encourage people to act or donate. However, some images work, happy about a success etc. The reaction you want to are very graphic and these can disgust and alienate people get from your audience will help you decide what tone you so you will need to carefully consider how your audience use to communicate. will react. • What do I want my audience to do? This could be to donate, to lobby their government, to sign a petition, to change their Some organisations choose to take a confrontational consumer choices and so on. approach on purpose. They use graphic images, naming and shaming instances of animal cruelty. This can help raise the What are you trying to say? profile of an issue. However, it can also be seen as extreme When talking about animal welfare it is important to choose and may put off some audiences, like governments and words to get across the right sentiment and tone for your industry, hindering future work with them. audience. The words you use will have a huge impact on the message that comes across and how people view both you Most organisations choose to work with authorities and and your cause. Having a good knowledge of your audience communities, to push for change. The public use of graphic, will help you to decide on the right message. For example, shaming photographs by these organisations could cause when approaching a government for support you may not damage to these key relationships. Your pictures should want to use an aggressive tone or when talking to supporters, communicate what your organisation believes in. you should avoid using scientific jargon. 28 MASTERCLASS

A good photo? • Portrait and landscape: each gives a different feel. To Here are a few pointers to help you get/choose great photos: make your page more interesting you can mix them up.

Portrait Landscape • Print quality: If you are printing your images they must be print quality (300dpi) – most digital cameras will do this. • Eye contact: although not always essential, photos where the animal is looking directly at the camera can be very appealing.

Also, it is very important when taking your pictures that you take both (portrait and landscape). This way you can select the best option for your layout. • Animals in cages: ensure the eyes of the animal can be seen through the bars. Check the camera is focusing on the animal Eye contact and not the bars.

© WSPA Lou© WSPA Bopp • People and pets: when showing • Perspective: photos from different distances can have a people and companion animals try different effect and can provide different information. to illustrate the close relationship by choosing photos with smiling faces looking towards the camera. • Staff and animals: always show professional behaviour and appropriate handling. Animals in cages

Close up Middle distance

People Staff

• Vets and animals: vets should always wear gloves or appropriate clothes and should not have their backs to the camera, blocking the animal. • Branding: try to have your logo in some photos, either on t-shirts or uniforms.

Long distance

• Position: in most cases try to have the subject in the centre. However, sometimes placing the subject to the left or right of the scene can be interesting.

Branding Vets

• Captions: It is a good idea to use captions to ensure your Position audience interprets the image correctly. Make sure these captions are brief, but not vague.

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Is your message consistent? And finally… do your research Even though you are communicating to audiences in different All organisations want to have an impact and make a ways, your message should always be consistent. What your difference to the lives of animals. If you are aware of other organisation believes should be inherent in everything you organisations that have done this successfully, read through write. Be careful not to contradict yourself and make sure their publications and websites. Look at the imagery they that everyone in your organisation is communicating the use and how they talk about their work. This will help you same thing. find your direction when it comes to producing your own communications. Pinpoint what kind of images they use and You may find it useful to produce a summary of what your why they make such an impact. However, always remember organisation’s key values are that are simple to communicate. that you must communicate your organisation’s beliefs and not someone else’s! • What are your beliefs and values? E.g. that animals matter and that we have a responsibility to look after them. • What kind of world do you believe in? E.g. a world where animals are free from pain and suffering. • How do you want to change the world? E.g. education, neutering, lobbying governments. • How will the world be better if you succeed? E.g. by changing legislation animals will have protection from cruelty in our country.

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INTERNATIONAL A whaling update

At this year’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) per year over the next three years. Greenlandic whaling is meeting a proposal was submitted that claimed to improve classified as Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling (ASW). However, the conservation and management of whale populations. In due to the increasingly commercial nature of Greenland’s reality, it would award quotas to whaling countries, effectively whale hunts, and huge question marks that still hang over lifting the ban and legitimising commercial whaling. whether Greenland actually needs as much whale meat as it claims, WSPA strongly condemns the move to grant them Members of the Whalewatch Network, including WSPA, these whales. were united in opposition and worked to upend the proposal, through government lobbying and public campaigns. These Hope for the future efforts succeeded and the IWC failed to reach consensus on Following encouragement from the Whalewatch Network, the proposal, and the decision was postponed in favour of a the UK Government tabled a proposal to host a workshop ‘cooling off’ period. on animal welfare and ethics. This proposal was met by overwhelming support from more than 10 countries (including Working undercover Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Netherlands, The network was also keen to expose the cruelty of whaling Germany, Portugal, Costa Rica, India and Brazil). The aim of and draw attention to the global opposition against it. In this workshop, to be held before next year’s IWC meeting, cooperation with the Norwegian partner groups NOAH – would be to assemble experts from outside the IWC to for dyrs rettigheter and Dyrebeskyttelsen Norge, WSPA discuss and address the welfare and ethical problems of conducted an undercover investigation in the Lofoten region commercial whaling. of Norway, which resulted in evidence that demonstrated the inherent welfare problems of killing whales at sea. This Over the next year WSPA will continue to be alert against any evidence was presented at the IWC meeting. further IWC proposals that could threaten the whaling ban and will continue to lobby governments and draw attention to Over 100,000 people also signed petitions in opposition to the cruelty of the commercial whaling industry. We will also Norwegian whaling, which were presented to the Norwegian continue to support Norwegian animal welfare groups Government prior to the meeting. A huge thank you to all the to gather public and political support for an end to member societies who helped reach this remarkable number Norwegian whaling. by promoting the petition to supporters. Sad news Although there were a number of positive outcomes from this IWC meeting, a major disappointment was the approved proposal for Greenland to hunt nine humpback whales

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INTERNATIONAL Education online for Latin America

This year WSPA launched a fantastic new online course Participant Jennifer Ibarra from Argentina reports to deliver training in animal welfare to professionals back on her experience of the course. working in animal-related areas in Latin America. “The truth is that this course was absolutely enlightening Vets and animal professionals can play a major role in and it cleared up many issues for me. It helped me improving animal welfare, often holding positions of open my mind. Many more questions were raised, and I authority and the ability to influence others. Recognising this have been able to share and accept other opinions and opportunity, WSPA developed Concepts in Animal Welfare positions, learning something from each one. In conclusion, (CAW) in partnership with the University of Bristol, England, to I now have many more things to do and I have the moral reach these key stakeholders. This programme has been very obligation to share this information. effective and popular, and the CD is now being used by over 850 universities across the globe. I am in charge of coordinating what each professor in my faculty will add this year to their curricula in relation to E-learning animal welfare, so I think I will suggest what modules from Following on from this success, WSPA has launched the CAW the Concepts in Animal Welfare CD may be useful. I will online course in Spanish, with the aim of making it accessible carry out further research in the topics that most interest to vets and professionals in Latin America. The course was me and modify the animal welfare course that I teach at delivered over three months to a pilot group of vets. The the faculty. I also plan to write more and improved media course content was reviewed at various stages to ensure the articles to inform about different problems and use this information was being taken in and understood. knowledge in my radio show.”

By the end of the course, participants had a clear concept of To find out more about the online Spanish course or to the foundations and application of animal welfare, as well as request a CAW CD visit www.wspa-international.org the ability to pass on this information to colleagues and animal owners. They can apply this new knowledge of animal welfare to scientific, ethical, and legal perspectives of their daily work, with a view to reducing the suffering of animals and impacting as little as possible on their welfare.

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united kingdom The true cost of milk?

Around the world, a new milk production system is These industrial-scale initiatives are characterised by huge emerging. It has already changed the way milk is numbers of contained animals, with little or no access produced in America, and now developers are sizing to grazing, subjected to round-the-clock milking and up plots in places like India, New Zealand, and even experiencing poor levels of welfare. The cows in these rural England. It’s all about producing vast quantities of systems are the result of years of breeding and tinkering by cheap milk, but at a huge cost to the environment, and man for one single purpose – to produce ever more volumes to the cows that provide the profit. of cheap milk for our consumption.

Dairy cows in factory farms spend the vast majority of their But there is growing evidence that CAFO’s are unsustainable, brief lives indoors, housed in cubicles, with little if any grazing. present a risk to public health and the environment and result These systems largely have milking parlours that run around in poor animal welfare. High-yield cows themselves have the clock, cows milked a gruelling three times a day and shortened lives, reduced fertility, and greater propensity to intensive feeding regimes designed to maximise their milk a variety of diseases and physiological problems. The zero yield. or limited grazing system used in so many intensive dairy systems means that during a dairy cow’s life, its access to Cows farmed in this way are more likely than their pasture- pasture is severely restricted, and it may never get to graze in based cousins to be lame and suffer debilitating mastitis a field at all. (inflammation of the udders). Antibiotics, stress, fear and aggression are common features of their lives. And the Because of the huge range of concerns that CAFO’s generate, enormous pressure on their metabolism means they are WSPA is working with Compassion in World Farming, Friends ‘finished’ – no longer economic to keep – at a very early age. of the Earth and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England to stop approval being given to this development. The UK has broadly high welfare standards, as well as strong We’re determined that the milk many of us depend on comes consumer awareness regarding eggs and meat. As a nation from sustainable farms, where cows have access to pasture of animal lovers, free range eggs are an everyday item and and that the future is not about milk produced in this way. shoppers by and large try to buy ethically and choose high welfare meat products. To sign up to WSPA’s ‘Not in My Cuppa’ campaign against the Nocton Dairy development visit www.notinmycuppa.com However, milk and dairy products are less well understood and our dairy industry as we know it is under pressure to intensify production. Given the nation’s approach to other animal-based foodstuffs, WSPA feels this is a massive step backwards and is campaigning against the spread of US- style industrial farming in Britain. Conventional small and mid scale dairy farms in the US have been gradually and now almost wholly replaced by enormous indoor mega-dairies or ‘concentrated animal feeding operations’ (CAFO’s) containing as many as 30,000 cows.

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“A friend to every animal. Strong in commitment and passion. Selfless in her determination to help the helpless and relieve suffering.”

Virginia Mckenna, Founder of Born Free Foundation.

book review Such a nuisance to die

Such a nuisance to die sums up the essence of Princess One of her greatest achievements was the founding and Elisabeth; constantly working for people and animals, with building of Refuge de Thiernay. This shelter fulfilled a great always so much to do. After meeting Princess Elisabeth and part of Princess Elisabeth’s strong will to do something knowing her actions, amazing true stories and strong will practical to change the lives of animals. In the book she talks to change our world, it is an honour to write a review for of the responsibility of running it – something many animal this book. welfarists will relate to.

By the end of the book you will recognise the huge impact Throughout the book the princess can be heard talking about Princess Elisabeth has had for animals around the world. legislative change, responsible pet ownership, neutering and You will also learn of her selfless humanitarian work and the sensitively but honestly about euthanasia and the overall inspiration she took from Mother Theresa. picture of humane dog population management.

The book captures the spirit, charm and most of all, the sense The book holds a wealth of pictures depicting the background of humour of Princess Elisabeth in a life story that is so packed of aristocracy, the high life and the party side of the princess, full its is hard to fit between two covers. The book guides us as well as the suffering witnessed in Nigeria, the fundraisers through her life from her aristocratic roots to the wild parties for animals, the campaigning for animals and finally the people she frequented in her rebellious early years, followed by her who inspired her. constant action and need to help others. She also talks of her experiences with celebrities and royalty from all corners of The book ends with a selection of short stories from people the world. who knew and worked with Princess Elisabeth on animal welfare projects. These hilarious anecdotes give a fond but The book highlights the family heroism and risk-taking attitude accurate account of the princess and her determination to that was clearly passed down to Princess Elisabeth and save animals. proved very useful in her quest to help those less fortunate. She surrendered an upper class life to follow her heart and Princess Elisabeth’s inspirational story is a fascinating read speak her mind, using her titles and connections for the that all animal welfarists will enjoy. benefit of animals and their welfare. Many animal welfare groups around the world made use her status by requesting Review by Dawn Peacock her presence at meetings with authorities. 35 WSPA INTERNATIONAL WSPA CHINA WSPA NORDIC 222 Gray’s Inn Road 501B, Dong Wai Diplomatic Building Vesterbrogade 34, 1 London, WC1X 8HB No.23, Dongzhimen Wai Avenue 1620 Copenhagen V United Kingdom Beijing, 100600 Denmark T: +44 (0)207 239 0500 China T: +45 33 93 7212 F: +44 0207 239 0653 T: +86 10 85325211 ext 0 F: +45 33 93 7210 E: [email protected] F: +86 10 85324211 E: [email protected] W: www.wspa-international.org E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.wspa-international.org W: www.wspa.dk WSPA AFRICA W: www.wspa.se PO Box 105476 WSPA GERMANY Dar es Salaam WSPA Welttierschutzgesellschaft e.V. WSPA SOUTH AMERICA United Republic of Tanzania Reinhardtstraße 10 Carrera 13 #29-21 Of.234 T: +255 22 378 0387 10117 Berlin Manzana 1, Parque Central Bavaria F: +255 22 378 0397 Germany Bogota E: [email protected] T: +49 30 923 7226 0 Colombia W: www.wspa-international.org F: +49 30 923 7226 29 T/F: +571 285 5472 / 5748 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] WSPA AUSTRALIA W: www.wspa.de W: www.wspa-latinoamerica.org GPO Box 3294 Sydney WSPA INDIA WSPA SOUTH EAST ASIA New South Wales 2001 906, 9th Floor 19th Floor Australia International Trade Tower Olympia Thai Tower T: +61 2 9902 8000 Nehru Place 444 Ratchadaphisek Road F: +61 2 9906 1166 New Delhi 110019 Samsennok E: [email protected] India Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10310 W: www.wspa.org.au T: +91 11 46539341 Thailand F: +91 11 46539345 T: +66 2 513 0475 WSPA BRAZIL E: [email protected] F: +66 2 513 0477 Av. Princesa Isabel W: www.wspa-international.org E: [email protected] 323 – 8 andar W: www.wspathailand.org Copacabana 22011-901 WSPA MIDDLE EAST Rio de Janeiro 222 Gray’s Inn Road WSPA UK Brazil London, WC1X 8HB 222 Gray’s Inn Road T: +55 21 3820 8200 United Kingdom London, WC1X 8HB F: +55 21 3820 8229 T: +44 (0)207 239 0500 United Kingdom E: [email protected] F: +44 0207 239 0653 T: +44 (0)207 239 0500 W: www.wspabrasil.org E: [email protected] F: +44 207 793 0654 W: www.wspa-international.org E: [email protected] WSPA CANADA W: www.wspa.org.uk 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 960 WSPA NETHERLANDS Toronto Benoordenhoutseweg 23 WSPA USA Ontario, M4P 2Y3 2596 BA Den Haag Lincoln Plaza Canada The Netherlands 89 South Street T: +1 416 369 0044 T: +31 70 314 2800 Suite 201 F: +1 416 369 0147 F: +31 70 314 2809 Boston E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Massachusetts 02111 W: www.wspa.ca W: www.wspa.nl USA T: +1 617 896 9214 WSPA CENTRAL AMERICA, WSPA NEW ZEALAND F: +1 617 737 4404 MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN Private Bag 93220 E: [email protected] Mall Paseo las Flores Business Parnell 1151 W: www.wspa-usa.org Center, Auckland 5th Floor New Zealand Apartado Postal 516-3000 T: +64 9 309 3901 Heredia F: +64 9 336 1947 Costa Rica E: [email protected] T: +506 2562 1200 W: www.wspa.org.nz F: +506 2562 1225 E: [email protected] W: www.wspa-latinoamerica.org