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2017 Annual Report
2017 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS iv 2 3 LETTER FROM RESCUE & CARE AT ANTI-FUR CEO & GENERAL COUNSEL THE BORN FREE USA CAMPAIGN PRIMATE SANCTUARY Compassion is Baboon Rescued Always in Fashion “Gilligan’s Island” Completed Fur for the Animals Enriching Lives of Primates Give it Back! (Pri)mate Campaign Educating the Public About Fur 7 8 9 WILDLIFE WEST & CENTRAL CANADIAN TRADE AFRICAN PROJECTS PROJECTS Elephant Ivory Legislation CITES Identification Guides Wolf and Coyote Protection State Wildlife Trade Bills Shark Fin Awareness Stopping Wildlife Culls Ending Trophy Hunting Listing of Lion, Giraffe, Chimpanzee, and Saving Snapping Turtles Investigation into International Wildlife Leopard Species in CMS Conservation Council Threat Assessment Missions Protecting Species with the CITES Standing Committee 13 14 15 CIRCLE OF COMPASSION CORPORATE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL PARTNERS POSITION TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 5 6 ANTI-TRAPPING ANIMALS IN DEFENDING CAMPAIGN CAPTIVITY CAMPAIGN THE ENDANGERED Important Federal Legislation Important Federal Legislation SPECIES ACT State Trapping Bills New York City Bans Wild Animals in Challenging Efforts to Gut the Endangered State Trapping Circuses Species Act Report Released A Win in the City of Toronto Victory for Gray Wolves Anti-Trapping Coalition Law to End Captivity of Whales and Investigation into Exemptions under the Dolphins Endangered Species Act Restricting Exotic Pet Ownership Reaching Millions Through Social Media 10 11 12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELSA’S LEGACY FOUNDATION & & STAFF WILDLIFE CIRCLE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Board of Directors (as of 12/31/17) 16 17 18 STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES STATEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL REVENUE & EXPENSE EXPENSES AT-A-GLANCE Dear Friends, I am pleased to share Born Free USA’s 2017 Annual Report with you. -
Prime Minister of Cambodia Office of the Prime Minister Royal Government of Cambodia Government Peace Building No
His Excellency Samdech Techo Hun Sen Prime Minister of Cambodia Office of the Prime Minister Royal Government of Cambodia Government Peace Building No. 38, Confederation Russia Blvd (110) Phnom Penh Cambodia [email protected] May 22, 2020 Re: The Threat of the Dog Meat Trade to Cambodia Dear Prime Minister Hun Sen, We are writing on behalf of the Asia for Animals Coalition, representing international animal welfare and conservation organizations regarding our concerns about the dog meat trade in Cambodia and its threat to public health, in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the worsening situation of the pandemic globally and throughout Southeast Asia, with 45,2091 human coronavirus infections in the region to date, the mass trafficking, sale, and slaughter of companion animals often alongside wild animals throughout the Kingdom continues unchallenged. The dog meat trade is rampant in Cambodia, involving the slaughter and consumption of up to 3 million dogs each year, many of them stolen pets, with an unknown number trafficked regularly into neighboring Vietnam. Research suggests that only 12% of Cambodians regularly consume dog meat, and consumption remains a controversial practice among Khmer people.2 The dog meat trade has proven to be a significant threat to public health, facilitating the transmission of deadly diseases including rabies, cholera, and trichinella. The trade also directly undermines Cambodia’s rabies control efforts and disrupts any attempts at achieving herd immunity through mass canine vaccination programs. Despite growing global public health concerns regarding live animal interfaces and wet markets and the potential for the emergence of novel and deadly viruses, the dog meat trade in Cambodia continues to operate - even in the face of mounting calls to end this trade. -
EU Zoo Inquiry Report Findings and Recommendations
1 THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 An evaluation of the implementation and enforcement of EC Directive 1999/22, relating to the keeping of animals in zoos. REPORT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Written for the European coalition ENDCAP by the Born Free Foundation 2 THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 An evaluation of the implementation and enforcement of EC Directive 1999/22, relating to the keeping of animals in zoos. REPORT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 3 CONTENTS Page ABBREVIATIONS USED ............................................ 04 TERMS USED ............................................................... 04 FOREWORD ................................................................. 05 RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................ 06 EC ZOOS DIRECTIVE 1999/22, SUCCESS, FAILURE – OR WORK IN PROGRESS? ..... 08 THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 FINDINGS 11 INTRODUCTION .......................................................... 12 METHODOLOGY .......................................................... 14 TRANSPOSITION ........................................................ 17 IMPLEMENTATION ..................................................... 22 ENFORCEMENT ........................................................... 28 COMPLIANCE .............................................................. 30 COUNTRY REPORTS AND UPDATES 41 AUSTRIA............................................................ 42 BELGIUM........................................................... 43 BULGARIA ........................................................ 44 CYPRUS............................................................ -
The Top 100 Ngos 2013
The Top 100 NGOs 2013. Special #15 edition om £9 D king D e T uni , € ourg 10 B + The PosT-DisasTer DisasTer in haiTi + reDiscovering iran F, France, Belgium, luxem France, Belgium, F, ch 15 + The FuTure oF PhilanThroPy D zerlan T swi + a resilienT DicTaTorshiP in Belarus sPecial FeaTure sPecial FeaTure Special Feature: The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition. © haBiTaT For humaniTy inTernaTional The gloBal Journal + January & FeBruary 2013 ThegloBalJournal.neT 36 37 sPecial FeaTure sPecial FeaTure © iDe n the pages that follow, we are global scheme of things, why do BRAC is ultimately accountable only expanded even further in the period new developments today. As the lines have resulted in a climb up the ranking. pleased to present the second NGOs matter? to its donors – and in that regard, due since. Some may bristle at any mention between NGO, social enterprise and For others, a no doubt unwelcome slide. O edition of The Global Journal’s to an astute foray into social business of an ‘NGO industry,’ but what cannot social business blur, the questions In either case though, we return to the Top 100 NGOs ranking. In introducing To come up with an answer, we need ventures, will only find this a less and be disputed is the critical role that of what an NGO should be, which same point as last year: despite our best the inaugural list, we began by look no further than our top-ranked less onerous burden to bear. NGOs play in the context of numerous interests it should serve and how it efforts to ensure the ranking is based asking: just what is a non-government NGO for this year, the Bangladeshi national economies around the world. -
Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 7 February 2020
United Nations E/C.2/2020/CRP.46/Rev.1 Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 7 February 2020 Original: English ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION 2020 session 25 July 2019 – 22 July 2020 Agenda item 17 Non-governmental organizations Draft report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations on its 2020 regular session (New York, 20-29 January and 7 February 2020) Summary At its 2020 regular session, held from 20 to 29 January, and 7 February 2020, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations had before it 632 applications for consultative status, including 272 applications deferred from earlier sessions. Of the non-governmental organizations submitting those applications, the Committee recommended 274 for consultative status, deferred 339 for further consideration at its resumed session in 2020 and closed consideration without prejudice of 18 applications that had failed to respond to queries over two consecutive sessions of the Committee. The Committee also had before it five requests for reclassification of consultative status; it recommended granting two of those requests and deferred its consideration of the other three requests. The Committee took note of one request of merger and recommended that the newly formed organization be granted special consultative status. The Committee took note of 9 requests for a change of name. It also had before it 691 quadrennial reports, of which it took note of 614. The Committee heard 25 representatives of non-governmental organizations. The present report contains two draft decisions on matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council. By draft decision I, the Council would: (a) Grant consultative status to 274 non-governmental organizations; * E/2020/XXX. -
THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 an Evaluation of the Implementation and Enforcement of the EC Directive 1999/22, Relating to the Keeping of Wild Animals in Zoos AUSTRIA
1 THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 An evaluation of the implementation and enforcement of the EC Directive 1999/22, relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos AUSTRIA Written for the European coalition ENDCAP by the Born Free Foundation THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 An evaluation of the implementation and enforcement of the EC Directive 1999/22, relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos. Country Report AUSTRIA CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS USED 3 TERMS USED 3 SUMMARY 4 RECOMMENDATIONS 5 THE EU ZOO INQUIRY 2011 INTRODUCTION 6 METHODOLOGY 7 COUNTRY REPORT: AUSTRIA INTRODUCTION 9 RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION 14 GENERAL INFORMATION 14 CONSERVATION 16 EDUCATION 18 EVALUATION OF ANIMAL ENCLOSURES 21 EVALUATION OF ANIMAL WELFARE 24 CONCLUSION 26 REFERENCES 35 Born Free Foundation © May 2011 Cover photograph by © William Warby 3 ABBREVIATIONS USED APOS Animal Protection Ordinance of Switzerland, Tierschutzverordnung 2008 CBD Convention on Biodiversity (1992) DEFRA UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs EAZA European Association of Zoos and Aquaria EEP European Endangered Species Breeding Programme ESB European Studbook EU European Union IAS Invasive Alien Species IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature TSchG Austrian Federal Animal Protection Act 2004/2010 (BGBl I Nr. 118/2004) NGO Non-Governmental Organisation OIE World Organisation for Animal Health OZO Austrian Zoo Organisation R491/2004 Zoo Regulation 491/2004 (Article 26, TSchG) SMZP Standards of Modern Zoo Practice, DEFRA, 2004 TSR Animal Welfare Council (Tierschutzrat) WAZA World Association of Zoos and Aquariums TERMS USED Animal: A multicellular organism of the Kingdom Animalia including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates. -
Zambia Hippo Cull
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rationale for planned cull of thousands of hippos in Zambia flawed? Born Free says Zambian Government’s own research shows that previous hippo culls in Luangwa have not controlled numbers Born Free’s recent breaking news that, in a secret move by the Zambian government, fee-paying trophy hunters are to be allowed to kill more than a thousand hippos over the next five years in Zambia was confirmed by Zambia’s Minister of Tourism and Arts Charles Banda in a press statement issued by his press office. Link to press statement: https://www.atta.travel/member-news/2018/05/zambia-tourism-minister-clarifies-hippo- culling/ Zambia's government claims that the cull, on the Luangwa River bordering Zambia’s premier safari tourism destination South Luangwa National Park, is a bid to control numbers. Although exact numbers have yet to be confirmed, and with original reports suggesting the proposed cull could involve as many as 2,000 animals over 5 years, the authorities say they plan to allow at least 250 hippos a year to be killed. A South African safari hunting company, Umlilo Safaris, has already started offering trophy hunters the chance to kill up to five of the hippos each on a hunting trip to Zambia. Each hunter will be charged up to $14,000 for five hippos, potentially netting millions of dollars according to Umlilo Safari’s Facebook site. Born Free President, Will Travers OBE, stated: “Zambia’s Minister of Tourism and Arts, Charles Banda, is using much of the same flawed rationale for the proposed slaughter that the Zambian authorities used to try and justify the aborted 2016 cull. -
Rights As Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
Bibliography with Active Citations This bibliography includes documentation standard to any scholarly book – as well as “active citations” for certain sources. These citations, following the suggestion of Moravcsik (2010), link to online documents footnoted in Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power. Because such materials may not remain on the Internet forever, I have also included permanent online links to archived copies and to my own copies of excerpts from certain documents. As a result, other scholars will be able to examine my sources, probe my interpretations, and challenge my findings – all with the goal of improving replicability, reliability, and knowledge about the issues I discuss in the book. Abirafeh, Lina. Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan: The Politics and Effects of Intervention. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2009. Abu-Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Associación Defensa Derechos Animal. “El parlament de Catalunya blinda los correbous.” [Catalan Parliament Shields the Correbous.] Article published September 23, 2010. https://www.addaong.org/en/ news/3627/el-parlament-de-catalunya-blinda-los-correbous/. ARCHIVE. EXCERPT. Alliance Defending Freedom. “European Court of Human Rights: Crosses Can Stay in Italy’s Classrooms.” Article published March 18, 2011. http://www.adfmedia.org/news/prdetail/?CID=24739. ARCHIVE. EXCERPT 1. EXCERPT 2. “Agreement Between the Italian Republic and the Holy See (1985).” February 18, 1984. http://home.lu.lv/ ~rbalodis/Baznicu%20tiesibas/Akti/Arvalstis_ligumi/Italijas&Sv.Kresla_konkordats.pdf. ARCHIVE. EXCERPT 1. EXCERPT 2. Akseer, Spogmai. Review of Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion, by Elaheh Rostami-Povey. Feminist Review 98, no. -
Open Letter to the UK Government on Support for the Dairy Industry
Open Letter to the UK Government on Support for the Dairy Industry To: Mr George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Cc: Mr Rishi Sunak, The Chancellor and Treasury Dear Mr Eustice, We the undersigned understand that representatives of the UK dairy industry, namely the National Farmers Union (NFU) and The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) are pressuring the government to step in with financial support for their industry, due to collapsing demand from the foodservice and hospitality sectors. This is amid a growing ‘crisis’ causing some farmers to start dumping cows’ milk. Whilst we sympathise with all small UK businesses during this challenging time and appreciate the vital role that food producers may play, with regards to national food security, it is important to maintain perspective. The UK dairy industry is clearly in decline and has been experiencing a recent but significant drop in consumer demand. There are now fewer than 9,500 dairy farms in the UK compared with 13,000 10 years ago, and it has been predicted there will be fewer than 5,000 by 2025. On the other hand, the UK market for dairy alternatives has grown by 150% in 6 years. Plant-based business is positively booming. Whilst we appreciate the need to support farmers, we shouldn’t collectively keep artificially propping up a failing industry with public funds. We would instead like to see support for a progressive transition over to more sustainable, healthier and planet-friendly, non-animal-based agriculture or into other sustainable forms of land management. -
Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks
\\Server03\productn\L\LCA\8-1\LCA105.txt unknown Seq: 1 14-MAY-02 15:16 ROOTS OF HUMAN RESISTANCE TO ANIMAL RIGHTS: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BLOCKS By Steven J. Bartlett* Animal law has focused attention on such interconnected issues as the prop- erty status of nonhuman animals, juristic personhood, and standing. These subjects are undeniably central concerns that dominate discussions of animal rights, but they do not relate to the most fundamental factors that are responsible both for human resistance to animal rights and for our spe- cies' well-entrenched, cruel, and self-righteous exploitation and destruction of nonhuman animals. In this comment, the author reviews recent advocacy of animal rights and offers the first study of human psychological and con- ceptual blocks that stand in the way of efforts on behalf of animal law and legislation. Paying long overdue attention to these obstacles provides a real- istic framework for evaluating the effectiveness of attempts to initiate mean- ingful change. I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. ÐAbraham Lincoln I. INTRODUCTION: ANIMALS AS PROPERTYÐIS THIS THE PROBLEM? Animals are property. These three wordsÐand their legal implications and practical ramificationsÐdefine the most significant doctrines and cases . and the realities for current practitioners of animal law.1 For many people in our society, the concept of legal rights for other animals is quite ªunthinkable.º That is because our relationship with the * Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University; Visiting Scholar in Psychology & Philosophy, Willamette University; Previously Professor of Philosophy, St. -
Applied Ethics in Animal Research: Philosophy, Regulation, and Laboratory Applications John P
Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs Purdue University Press e-books OLD Purdue University Press 1-1-2002 Applied ethics in animal research: Philosophy, regulation, and laboratory applications John P. Gluck Tony DiPasquale F. Barbara Orlans Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/press_ebooks Gluck, John P.; DiPasquale, Tony; and Orlans, F. Barbara , " Applied ethics in animal research: Philosophy, regulation, and laboratory applications" (2002). Purdue University Press e-books OLD. Paper 16. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/press_ebooks/16 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. Gluck, DiPasquale, Orlans Gluck, DiPasquale, Applied Ethics / Veterinary Studies Few contemporary issues arouse as much passionate rhetoric as the ethics of labo- ratory animal use. These essays challenge people of good faith to face the issues Applied Ethics in relevant to the ethics of using animals in biomedical and behavioral research. They discuss issues of philosophy, statutory regulation, and laboratory application of ethics in ways depleted of sheer rhetoric and attempts to manipulate. The result is an open dialogue that allows readers to reach a deepened understanding of the Animal Research issue and to form their own opinions. “This is an excellent compilation of analyses from some of the leading thinkers in Applied Ethics in Animal Research the world on animal research ethics. I would recommend it as a useful addition to anyone’s library.”—ANDREW N. ROWAN, PH.D., Senior Vice President, Philosophy, Regulation, Humane Society of the United States “This book advances our understanding of an inherently compelling, complex, and and Laboratory Applications conflicted field. -
Memoria De Estadía Ingeniería En Desarrollo De Negocios
MEMORIA DE ESTADÍA PARA OBTENER EL TÍTULO DE INGENIERÍA EN DESARROLLO DE NEGOCIOS LA INCIDENCIA DE LAS ONG EN LA TOMA DE DECISIONES DE LAS EMPRESAS PARA EL BIENESTAR ANIMAL A.C. RESPETO E IGUALDAD ANIMAL PRESENTA ARLETT AQUINO HERNÁNDEZ Página | 1 MEMORIA DE ESTADÍA PARA OBTENER EL TÍTULO DE INGENIERÍA EN DESARROLLO DE NEGOCIOS A.C. RESPETO E IGUALDAD ANIMAL PRESENTA ARLETT AQUINO HERNÁNDEZ ASESOR ACADÉMICO ASESOR EMPRESARIAL DRA. DANIELA PATRICIA MTRA. HILDA NELY SANTIAGO IBÁÑEZ LUCANO RAMÍREZ Página | 2 San Pablo Huixtepec, Zimatlán, a 20 de abril de 2020. UTVCO.DN. 102.2020 ASUNTO: DICTAMEN AQUINO HERNÁNDEZ ARLETT ESTUDIANTE DE LA CARRERA DE DESARROLLO E INNOVACIÓN EMPRESARIAL P R E S E N T E Con la finalidad de iniciar su trámite de titulación para obtener el grado de Ingeniería en “Desarrollo e Innovación Empresarial” y después de haber concluido satisfactoriamente su periodo de estadía en la Empresa “A. C. RESPETO E IGUALDAD ANIMAL” donde desarrolló el proyecto. “LA INCIDENCIA DE LAS ONG EN LA TOMA DE DECISIONES DE LAS EMPRESAS PARA EL BIENESTAR ANIMAL” Esta dirección autoriza la impresión de la memoria respectiva A T E N T A M E N T E Página | 3 AGRADECIMIENTOS Quiero aprovechar este apartado para agradecer a las personas que han contribuido a mi desarrollo personal y profesional, y al desarrollo del proyecto a lo largo de cuatro meses comprendidos del 07 enero al 03 de abril del año en curso. En primer lugar, deseo expresar agradecimientos a mi familia; a mi querida madre Reyna Hilda Hernández Nolasco y a mis cuatro hermanas, pilares esenciales para fomentar las inquietudes por construir un mejor desarrollo personal, y por supuesto, para el mundo.