We are World Animal Protection Global Review 2013 Image: A farmer drives her 12 livestock home at dusk We move the world across parched landscape 10 in Maharashtra, India. 7 3 14 from Canada to Costa Rica, 6 from the UK to Denmark, 15 8 from India to China

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05 Welcome 06 We are World Animal Protection 08 The year in numbers 10 We protect animals in communities 16 We protect farm animals 22 We protect animals in disasters 28 We protect animals in the wild 36 Major donor interview: Alice Simpson 38 We put animals on the global agenda 40 Financial summary 42 Thank you 46 Looking forward

Image: A World Animal Protection vet talks to young pet owners who have brought their dogs for rabies vaccinations in Cainta, Philippines. 3 World Animal Protection Senior staff

Mike Baker Tennyson Williams Chief Executive Regional Director for Africa We move the world to protect animals John Trampleasure Margaret West Deputy CEO Regional Director for Asia Pacific Steve McIvor Director of International Ruud Tombrock We hope you will be so proud of our amazing Campaigns Regional Director for Europe Ian Cawsey Silia Smith progress for animals all over the world in 2013. Director of Policy and Regional Director for North External Affairs America Throughout the year, you helped us bring life-saving aid to Moving the world to help animals is central to our work Nick Stevens Alfredo Botti 1.3 million animals affected by disasters and hope to their – and the past 12 months have also been remarkable for International Director Interim Regional Director for distraught owners. You generously helped to provide the recognition our expertise has received from the UN to of Resources Latin America long-term funding for our vital disaster management work. help us do just that. In fact, your support of our international And you have helped us develop unique expertise that’s advocacy work resulted in animal welfare being included Mike Baker increasingly valued by humanitarian organisations such as for the first time in two resolutions submitted to the UN We are World Animal Protection the United Nations and the International Federation of the General Assembly. As you’ve probably noticed, this Global Review is the first World Animal Protection Board of Trustees Mark Watts Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The resolutions, relating to agriculture, food security to feature our new name – World Animal Protection. But and nutrition and disaster reduction, will encourage while our name has changed, our focus certainly has not. Mark Watts Paul Baldwin You have saved hundreds of thousands of dogs governments to commit to protecting animals when As ever we are firmly fixed on our work with animals; we President Dominique Bellemare Your generosity also protected hundreds of thousands developing their own policies. Thank you so much always have been and always will be about protecting Bjarne Clausen Ms Hanja Maij-Weggen Chinny Krishna of dogs from rabies in countries including China and for helping us achieve this great success. them. We think our new name makes it clear what we are Deputy President Carter Luke Zanzibar – and will ultimately protect millions more. here to achieve and is much easier to remember. And of Marcelle Meredith Our pilot vaccination schemes are producing robust You will help us bring a Sea Change course, the more people like you who know about our Andrew Rowan examples that will convince governments worldwide Every year, including 2013, millions of animals are killed or charity, the more animals we can help. Cecilia Vega Leon that vaccination, rather than culling, is the only way to endure terrible injuries from lost and discarded fishing gear Hugh Wirth control this horrific disease. (a form of marine litter). And, until recently, there was little Your support means the world to us Nesta Hatendi awareness of their suffering. However, your support of our All of the 2013 highlights included in this review have Joseph Nhan-O’reilly You have protected farm animals from Oceans team is changing this. Thanks to their efforts, the only been possible because of your generosity and a lifetime of suffering UN Environment Programme’s new Global Partnership on loyalty to World Animal Protection. Thank you so much We also worked hard on your behalf throughout the year Marine Litter recognised marine litter’s impact on animal for your trust in us and the huge impact you are helping to alleviate the terrible suffering of billions of farm animals welfare as a global concern in its objectives. us make. We hope you will agree that 2013 truly was confined to industrial systems. And, right now, you are This exciting landmark decision lays firm foundations a year in which we moved the world for animals. helping us fund humane and sustainable agriculture for our 2014 Sea Change campaign to save 1 million campaigns, training and innovative solutions that will animals from being injured and killed by lost and discarded Mike Baker Mark Watts inspire better treatment for farm animals globally. fishing gear. Chief Executive President

4 5 We are World Animal Protection. We end the needless suffering of animals. We influence decision makers to put animals on the global agenda. We help the world see how important animals are to all of us. We inspire people to change animals’ lives for the better.

Image: We move the world to protect animals. A farmer drives her livestock home at dusk across parched landscape in Maharashtra, India. 6 7 Image: A bear at the We made Romanian Sanctuary, Zarnesti. a huge difference in 2013

We moved We persuaded We moved We supplied We freed 436,000 293,511 258,000 25 5 supporters to fund our people to sign a petition people in Australia to join specialist veterinary kits bears from captivity and vital work. on dairy cow welfare our campaign to end the to the local vets and gave them new lives in the that we presented to the horrific cruelty that sheep veterinary and animal Romanian bear sanctuary. European Commission. transported live to the science students working in 77 bears now live there. Middle East endure. the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

We celebrated We taught We saved We helped vaccinate We planned for 10 years 27,000 7,552 80,000 1 million of our education work by children in Mexico about animals, including horses, dogs against rabies animals to be saved launching the third edition animal welfare, thanks to pigs, cows and dogs, from in China together with through our new marine of Concepts in Animal an agreement we signed starvation and disease the China Animal Disease debris campaign Welfare – a teaching with the State of Puebla and after floods destroyed Control Centre. Sea Change. tool for veterinary the Mexican organisation communities in Ecuador institutions worldwide. Dejando Huella. in May.

8 9 We protect animals in communities

Our mission: to protect millions of dogs 30,000 threatened with the senseless suffering dogs will have been and cruel deaths triggered by people’s vaccinated in Zanzibar alone by 2015. fear of rabies

Our solution: widespread dog vaccination – the only effective way to control this

deadly disease Image: A dog is vaccinated against rabies and given a red collar in Anhui Province, China.

10 11 Case study Saving lives in Africa

Nick de Souza, a senior Kenyan vet with “With rabies, people have no compromise – there are just six expertise in wild, farm and pet animals, is hours to get help after being bitten and it’s five injections over time to stop someone dying. So many people in Africa find piloting our Red Collar Campaign in Africa it so hard to get medical care. And even if they can get to a where he has lived all of his life. And as doctor or clinic that has the injections, the cost may be out of part of our Africa team since 1997, he fully their reach. understands the serious impact rabies has on “Fear of the long and horrific deaths that rabies causes has local people and their dogs. led to local and national governments mounting cruel and ineffective dog culls to wipe out the disease,” he says. Since 2012 Nick’s work has focused on working with Zanzibar’s government to eradicate rabies from the island nation by vaccinating 70 per cent of the dog population. Image left: Mauly, his granddaughter, Fatma and one of He aims to create a sustainable showcase of best practice to Going mobile for animals his dogs, Lucky. Lucky, like all of Mauly’s dogs, has been convince other African governments of the effectiveness During 2013 we supported the training of all government vaccinated against rabies by our trained local vets on the of mass vaccinations. district veterinary officers, who traditionally deal with livestock, island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. “Zanzibar was an ideal place to start,” explains Nick. to give rabies vaccinations. By the end of the year they had “We have had a strong working relationship with the vaccinated more than 8,400 dogs on Zanzibar’s Unguja government for many years. And all of our previous Island – 90 per cent of the estimated dog population. groundwork regarding responsible pet ownership and Nick says this speedy work was helped by the mobile providing veterinary treatment via a mobile clinic is paying off. clinic we funded. “The people are very responsive to the Red Collar “One of our biggest challenges could have been getting Campaign; they mostly understand what rabies is and how vets by bike or on foot where they needed to be. But to prevent it through vaccination and how to treat dogs to thankfully donations from our supporters made this easier for avoid being bitten.” us. The veterinary teams can be driven to field vaccination Administering vaccinations is just one part of the sites where they can vaccinate as many as 120 dogs in just project. It also involves local censuses of the dog one morning,” says Nick. population and a government-backed education and The project is expected to finish in 2015 when an estimated rabies awareness campaign. 30,000 dogs will have been vaccinated against the disease. Nick expects it will provide the vital evidence so many African governments need to stop the culls and protect their dogs and people from rabies. “There has been great interest in this work from other countries including Kenya and Sierra Leone. I feel we’re creating a brighter future for huge numbers of dogs and hope our supporters will be so proud of what they are helping us achieve.”

12 13 “World Animal Protection has helped us enormously by coming Protecting thousands of dogs in China We are working towards a rabies-free Bangladesh and ending up with ideas on how to best control the cases of rabies, and Thanks to you, 80,000 dogs were vaccinated against rabies the inhumane culling of dogs. Following our successful pilot in in China via pilot projects with the China Animal Disease how to reduce inhumane treatment of animals. The charity has Control Centre (CADC). The projects launched in Jieshou Cox’s Bazar, 54 out of 64 municipalities have received training also assisted with our vaccination programme. Quite a number City/Anhui Province, Tongzhi County/Guizhou Province and to start a nation-wide vaccination programme. Hancheng City/Shaanxi Province quickly vaccinated 70 per of people and animals have benefitted through their assistance.” cent of the local dog populations. Dr Juma Kassim Gharib, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Livestock Vaccination areas were set up by local government and Fisheries, Zanzibar representatives in village squares and public places. Some Preventing rabies – the Five Keys “We are not rich people in Manila, but dogs owners were also visited door to door. Educating people – particularly children – about rabies and are our friends and companions and protect The CADC will be using results and specific local how to treat and handle dogs is vital to effective humane us. If you have pets you must have them experience from these pilot vaccination projects to develop rabies prevention programmes. That’s why we developed and promote humane and scientific rabies prevention and and piloted Five Keys in Latin America with the Pan American vaccinated – free vaccination keeps our dogs control solutions throughout China. Health Organisation and the Global Alliance for Rabies safe and protects the people we love.” Control (GARC). Five Keys is our teachers’ resource aimed at Sharing success for long-term protection protecting young people from dog bites. The World Health Reynaldo Country by country, government by government, we are Organisation is also interested in adopting this resource for sharing best practice in rabies prevention. And ultimately this other countries and regions across the globe. could protect millions of dogs, all over the world, in both the long and short term. Our emphasis on collaboration resulted in Brazil’s Ministry Reynaldo’s story of Health sharing their extensive experience with CADC When Reynaldo’s 56-year-old brother was bitten by a representatives in November. The four-day visit resulted in rabies-infected dog, the family was horrified by his shocking CADC recommendations for greater coordination between and painful death. As we visited Reynaldo’s home on World various ministries in China to prevent rabies and establishing Rabies Day he told us how his brother died within three standard emergency prevention and control measures. days of being bitten. And this was not the first time rabies Sharing our successes with governments also resulted in had affected Reynaldo’s family. His nephew had also been two landmark agreements. Both the Kenyan and Vietnamese bitten, but had survived after going through the painful and governments invited us to work with them on plans to expensive post-exposure treatment. humanely rid their countries of rabies. Vietnam is committed to Despite the anguish rabies caused his family, Reynaldo told being rabies free by 2020. us he was still a dog lover and proudly introduced us to his dogs Princess and One-One. Through our partnership with the GARC, we supported Image: World Animal Protection staff with newly vaccinated a mass dog vaccination project in the Cainta Municipality Xiaohuang, while her 76-year-old owner, Grandma Hao sits of the Philippines in 2013. More than 17,000 dogs were beside her in Shanxi Province, China. protected from rabies and the needless culling that is driven by fear of the disease. 14 15 We protect animals in farming

With your help we are moving the world In 2013, we stood up for dairy cows in Europe. Many suffer from painful health for farm animals. Your commitment empowers problems and shorter lifespans caused us to persuade governments, businesses by breeding for high milk yields, poor and consumers to build a future where housing and confinement. More and more dairy cows are also being kept indoors all protecting farm animals will create a better year, where they have little or no access world for us all. to pasture and are unable to exercise or graze outdoors.

Image: Danish Jersey dairy cow outside on grass on an organic farm in Denmark. Gideon Mendel for World Animal Protection

16 17 “After visiting me and seeing the healthy Making a case for change in China Training for a kinder end animals with freedom to move and Since 2006 we have supported 12 Chinese farms to More than 250 million farm animals were treated more develop community supported animal-friendly agriculture humanely, sparing them pain, suffering and trauma before behave naturally, people understand schemes that benefit food safety and economic growth, and during slaughter thanks to our training programmes in my work is worthwhile. I think they are ensure rural livelihoods and protect the environment. These Brazil and China. Our expert teams ran 20 practical and ‘model’ farms, a number of which involve pig rearing in theoretical training courses for 500 workers in Chinese gradually understanding the close links humane and environment-friendly deep litter systems, were slaughterhouses; in Brazil more than 300 slaughterhouse staff between animal welfare and food safety. part of our project with the UK-based Food Animal Initiative were trained on 18 courses. Both animal handling methods My hope is that word will spread and which finished in July 2013. and slaughterhouse facilities have been improved as a result. The Model Farm project provided us with evidence of the farms like mine will become more and wide benefits of humane and sustainable agriculture to the Raising standards in businesses more common – and the future of our environment, animals and people. We are now using this We pressed food companies to adopt and implement children will be better protected.” evidence to support our 2014 campaign to convince China’s effective policies to protect farm animals through our government and the country’s most significant commercial involvement with the Business Benchmark on Farm Xue Yunfang, farmer, Nankou County, China pig producers of animal-friendly farming benefits. There are Animal Welfare. The benchmark, launched in 2012 with more than 600 million pigs kept in Chinese farms. Millions Compassion in World Farming, is encouraging higher farm are kept in sow stalls (the equivalent of caged confinement) animal welfare standards across the food industry. and cramped, barren conditions. They have no opportunity During 2013, seventy global food businesses were Changing the lives of caged hens to express their natural behaviour. With China’s pig industry assessed, including major retailers, restaurants, bars and Our campaign to improve the welfare of more than marked for expansion even more pigs are likely to be kept producers. The research showed an encouraging 10 per 300 million North American laying hens suffering in this way. That’s why we need your continued support to help cent increase – 46 per cent in 2012 to 56 per cent in caged confinement gained good ground in 2013. We us encourage the adoption of viable alternatives. 2013 – in companies publishing formal farm animal welfare produced sound economic research predicting long-term policies. And 71 per cent of companies acknowledged that increased consumer demand for cage-free eggs and the farm animal welfare is a business issue. benefits to company reputations of making commitments to animal welfare. We used this research when talking to retailers, restaurants, food manufacturers and industry groups about the economic “We are at the start of our journey on reporting our farm animal and reputational benefits of switching to cage-free eggs. welfare activities. Although there are many good practices within By the end of 2013 more than 70,000 consumers in the company, we must now consolidate our messages and report North America had signed up to our cage-free pledge. on this area in a transparent way. I intend to use the Business Benchmark to guide our actions and structure our reporting on this increasingly important issue.” Image: Egg-laying hens living cage free on a farm Marie Hélène Boidin Dubrule, Sustainability Director, Groupe Auchan in Canada.

18 19 Campaigning tirelessly for Australia’s sheep Protecting dairy cows Revolutionising the way farm animals Positive focus We campaigned to halt the enormous suffering caused to In 2013, we stood up for dairy cows in Europe. Many suffer are treated Their research is responding to the shift in animal welfare more than two million sheep every year by Australia’s cruel from painful health problems and shorter lifespans caused by For three months in 2013 our scientists Helen Proctor science that is beginning to recognise the importance of live export trade. Our 2013 report, ‘A better way – replace breeding for high milk yields, poor housing and confinement. and Gemma Carder were based in Bolton Park, the positive emotions in animals. live sheep exports with chilled and frozen sheep meat’, More and more dairy cows are also being kept indoors all Royal Veterinary College’s working and teaching farm, in “Animal welfare should be about more than being free provided compelling economic evidence of the benefits of year, where they have little or no access to pasture and are Hertfordshire, UK. With enthusiastic interns and volunteers from negative experiences or the ‘five freedoms’ – the right to a chilled and frozen meat trade for everyone in the supply unable to exercise or graze outdoors. they gathered data to find measures of cows’ ‘positive be free from pain, thirst, suffering etc. It should also consider chain. More than 258,000 people in Australia have signed Supporting Better Dairy – our campaign with Compassion emotions’ via the animals’ responses to being stroked. what is actually pleasurable for animals,” explains Helen. Image: Sheep herded together our petition in protest against the animals’ long journeys to in World Farming and Ben & Jerry’s – achieved a massive “This research is considered quite ground-breaking To gather the data, Helen and Gemma worked with a on a farm. iStock. by Getty Images the Middle East and Indonesia. 293,511 signatures of support. This response gave because so little is known about positive emotions in sample group of 13 dairy cows. They observed one cow at great strength to our October meeting with the European animals,” says Helen. “Although we can say that ‘cows a time in three, five-minute sets. The scientists noted the cows’ Commission where we outlined our concerns and like being outside,’ we don’t actually know this scientifically. behaviour, such as changes in their ear positions and eye emphasised that an EU Directive is needed to give dairy Once we can measure it we can add the scientific whites, and temperature changes in response to stroking and Understanding animals’ feelings cows consistent protection across Europe. background to it.” non-stroking time. Their data was then immediately recorded In the first quarter of 2014, Helen and Gemma will be And in India, which has the world’s largest dairy herd of on a chart, and filming enabled the researchers to analyse collating and analysing their data. This material will then form 199 million cows, we began our campaign to improve their the cows’ behaviour in more detail afterwards. the basis for their research papers which will face a rigorous welfare. Although most are still farmed extensively, 50 million review process before being accepted as valid scientific dairy cows are suffering on farms in unacceptable conditions. evidence. Without intervention this number is set to rise. By the end of Helen explains that the overall aim is to provide a checklist the year we had developed links with India’s National Dairy of quick, tangible, visible measures – such as ear positions, Research Institute and five leading universities keen to work eye whites – that can easily be seen and used by producers, with us to improve the lives of dairy cows. assessors and inspectors. “These measures will be more immediate and less intrusive than more conventional methods such as measuring cortisol – the stress hormone – from an animal’s blood, saliva, faeces and urine. They will give a quick and, we hope, revolutionary understanding of how the animals are feeling and indicate where changes should be made to the way they are treated and kept,” says Helen. In India, which has the world’s largest dairy herd of

199 million cows “This research is considered quite ground-breaking because we began our campaign to improve their welfare. so little is known about positive emotions in animals” Dr Helen Proctor, World Animal Protection Sentience Manager 20 21 Image: At a cattle camp farmer Bhagwan Tuckram Tawlain holds his water buffalo calf as a World Animal Protection We protect vet examines it during drought in Maharashtra, India. animals in disasters

When disasters strike, threatening animals with suffering Our authority inspires governments and humanitarian organisations and death, your generosity and dedication gets our to look ahead – to work with expertise and compassion where it is needed most. us practically and creatively to protect millions of animals from We have become the world leader in our field; our the disasters of the future. teams are highly trained and well equipped. They act swiftly, making the right decisions in crises to save animals and the livelihoods of people who depend on them.

22 23 Case study Philippines disaster

Shocking devastation The devastation shocked even our most experienced disaster management staff. On Leyte alone more than 165,000 pigs had died, and in the aftermath food was running out for the survivors as transport lines were cut off. Tens of thousands of chickens in the Visayas had also perished as Haiyan tore through their housing. Hands-on help after Haiyan’s fury Working through the relentless heat and humidity we When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines with all its force in trained local vets, veterinary students and volunteers in how November 2013, it left one of the worst paths of destruction to give emergency aid and use lifesaving veterinary kits. that the country has ever recorded. The typhoon killed and We assessed and visited tens of thousands of animals Forward thinking injured millions of farm animals and in many places crippled in the some of the most remote communities. We gave Throughout 2014 we’ll be working on creative long- critical infrastructure and emergency services. And in its veterinary aid to 17,400 farm and pet animals. And we term recovery and disaster preparedness plans with local devastating aftermath, many more animals were threatened distributed mineral supplements and 1 tonne of dog food and national governments. And during this process mobile with disease and starvation. to desperate owners. veterinary teams on Panay will be equipped with mountain The Philippines’ government called for urgent international When our short-term responses officially ended in bikes and lightweight veterinary kits. These are designed to assistance on 9 November. So we quickly sent an expert December 2013, our experts stayed on the Island of Panay reach animals in remote areas likely to be affected by the team of 11 highly skilled disaster management staff from to work with the government and the district veterinary office numerous typhoons that hit the Philippines each year. around the world to the poorest and worst hit areas in the to protect animals against the Haiyans of the future. Your support is also helping us research the feasibility of Visayas region. underground animal shelters that can resist typhoons in the From 11 November–16 December 2013 they Philippines. We have already built a model underground worked with Philippine partners, including the Bureau of shelter for pigs on Panay – you may have even seen this for Animal Industries, the Department of Agriculture and the yourself in our recent BBC documentary, Vets in the disaster veterinary faculty of University of Aklan, in a well-planned zone. Ultimately, we hope innovative shelters like this could relief operation. save tens of thousands of animal lives and protect their Our focus was the islands of Panay, Leyte and Cebu owners’ livelihoods. where people depend on poultry, pigs and cattle for their livelihoods and buffalo for ploughing the land and harvesting the rice fields. “I can’t overstate this enough. These villagers have nothing without their animals. No industries, no electricity, no means to buy or make food or pay for their children’s education. The only thing they have that brings Image: A farmer from Aklan Province, Philippines, waits with his water buffalo so she them income is growing crops and raising animals.” can be treated by World Animal Protection vets. Scott Cantin, World Animal Protection Disaster Management Team, Leyte

25 Protecting animals in a disaster Protecting the future

Drought. All kinds of disasters threatened the world’s animals Freezing temperatures and severe snow storms brought Your help is critical as we move governments and with disease, starvation and death in 2013. And thousands of alpacas and other animals in Peru to humanitarian organisations to prepare for the future Floods. with your help, we sent our expert teams to 14 near starvation in September. We delivered food, and protect animals and people’s livelihoods from Cyclones. disasters in 11 countries. They came to the aid of veterinary supplies and treatment to help more than disaster. We are achieving world-changing results… more than 1.3 million animals. Here are just some 30,000 animals and their grateful owners. Volcanic eruptions. of the life-saving missions… We know that, when animals die in disasters, the fragile Our efforts to persuade humanitarian organisations of the We stepped in to help as thirsty animals and families local economies and food security of communities are inextricable link between the welfare of animals and the moved to the government cattle camps of India’s severely affected. Research and analysis we released wellbeing of people reached a true milestone in October. Maharashtra State, when the rainfall dropped by in 2013, on our 2011 work in Kenya’s drought-stricken We delivered our first joint training package to staff from 50 per cent. We provided netting for shade and Mwingi district, shows how cost effective disaster five national societies of the International Federation of minerals for nutrients, saving 9,000 cattle and buffalo intervention work can be. For every dollar we spent on the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC). This package in three camps in the worst affected areas of Beed. the intervention, our work generated $2.74 in economic shows how animal welfare solutions play an important role This approach, which recognises how critical shade is benefits for communities. And over the three years, the in the IFRC’s food security and livelihoods projects. It will to the survival of animals enduring drought, was then benefits increased by $6.69 for every $1 spent. eventually support many more IFRC staff members who used by managers of 50 other camps and benefited work with animal-owning communities all over the world. 91,000 cattle. We proudly took our message that animals must not be an afterthought in a disaster to delegates at the Thanks to you, we helped save more than 7,000 United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction conference animals – horses, pigs, cows, chickens and dogs – in Geneva in May. Representatives from the Aldama Your support has enabled us to work from starvation and disease after floods swept through authority in Chihuahua State, Mexico helped us bring the closely with the Costa Rican government Ecuador in April. With our partner Protección Animal principle of disaster planning to life. Chihuahua has been to help them prepare to protect their Ecuador (PAE) we delivered much-needed food, afflicted with life-threatening droughts and the authority medicine, vitamins and veterinary care. We also went has been working with us to protect affected animals and animals – and local people’s livelihoods back in August to run course for veterinary experts, community livelihoods. – from the disasters of tomorrow. government officials and PAE on how to reduce risks and handle animals during disasters. Over the years we have brought aid to hundreds of thousands of animals affected by disasters in India. We’ve also encouraged communities within the country to develop plans to prepare for disasters – ones that factor in animals. Our work’s effectiveness achieved true recognition in February when all 28 Indian states signed a Image: Women watch over ground-breaking agreement to include animals in disaster their cows at one of the and emergency plans. This secures protection for billions of government cattle camps Indian animals and the 800 million people who depend in Maharashtra, India. on them.

27 We protect animals in the wild

Where the suffering of wild animals is most Thank you for supporting our research and far-reaching, most severe, we move the campaigning work world to stop it. With your help, we influence on the problems caused by entanglement and the decisions people make affecting wildlife marine debris. on a global scale. Your support is critical in protecting animals from cruel entrapment, trade and death.

Image: A wild sealion swims in the sea off Australia’s coast. iStock. by Getty Images

28 29 Hundreds of thousands of the world’s Taking action for entangled whales Over the two-day course attendees were introduced whales and dolphins die prolonged Entangled whales fighting for their lives in South to tools, techniques and best practice by trainers from the American waters are now more likely to survive IWC and the US government’s National Oceanic and and painful deaths every year from thanks to training for front-line rescue workers. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They were also trained entanglements with fishing gear and Hundreds of thousands of the world’s whales and in open water in practical boat-based rescue techniques marine debris. Large whales can take dolphins die prolonged and painful deaths every year using two boats acting as entangled whales and two others up to six months to die from injuries and from entanglements with fishing gear and marine debris. as rescue vessels. Large whales can take up to six months to die from injuries Their training is extremely valuable and relevant in the exhaustion as they drag the tangled and exhaustion as they drag the tangled debris with them. context of Sea Change – our major marine campaign to be debris with them. Attempts by well-meaning, but untrained people to free them launched in 2014. This is dedicated to saving the lives of can make their injuries and suffering even worse. a million animals from death and injury through accidental To combat the problem, and working with the International entanglement in lost or discarded ‘ghost’ fishing gear. Whaling Commission (IWC), we co-sponsored a training The rescuers are now well equipped to help whales workshop in Ecuador in June for 37 people working travelling along the west coast of South America during directly with entanglements. Trainees included fisheries and the summer migration season. We expect that many tens environment officials, researchers and marine stranding of entangled whales will be safely cut free by the newly responders from Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Panama and trained teams. Peru – hotspots for humpback whale entanglements. Until the workshop and training sessions the main release techniques for first responders had involved entering the water and cutting the animal free. This approach is highly dangerous and often unsuccessful because of the size and unpredictability of the animals involved and the ever- Image: A juvenile gray whale changing nature of the sea itself. is entangled in a lobster trap. Brandon Cole/naturepl.com

31 “World Animal Protection is an extremely Moving partners to protect marine wildlife Turning the tide on turtle farming welcome addition to the Global Partnership Thank you so much for supporting our research and With your help, we campaigned hard to protect more than advocacy work on the problems caused by entanglement 9,500 green sea turtles enduring cannibalism, disease on Marine Litter. Their campaign plans – and marine debris. Because of our expertise we were the and genetic defects caused by appalling conditions at the to protect marine animals by sustainably only animal protection organisation invited to help draft the Cayman Turtle Farm. objectives of the United Nations Environment Programme’s A 185,000-supporter-strong petition, lobbying of reducing the amount of lost and discarded (UNEP) new Global Partnership on Marine Litter. Reducing the Caymanian government, support from Sea Turtle fishing gear in our oceans – have been the worldwide impact of marine litter on animal welfare has Conservancy, Humane Society International and FOUR developed through a consultative process, been included in the objectives because of our involvement. PAWS, plus media coverage have resulted in significant We were also invited to present on the devastation caused improvements. The farm has recruited their first ever full-time and they bring great passion to this to marine wildlife by entanglement at the partnership’s first vet and ended the training of Myrtle the turtle who was important cause.” meeting. Building on UNEP’s support for the development required to give rides to members of the public. It is also no of our new campaign, by the year’s end we had gained longer selling turtle-meat based meals in its on-site restaurant Vincent Sweeney, Coordinator, Global Programme further support from several key organisations including the and has cancelled its annual release recognising our of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment Zoological Society of London, the Healthy Seas Partnership concerns regarding the lack of quarantine procedures. from Land-based Activities and GhostNets Australia. Although these achievements are definitely steps in the right direction they are only short- term solutions. We know the suffering of these endangered turtles will only end when farming for their meat stops, as there is no humane way to Saying no to civet coffee farm sea turtles. Our exposure of cruel, caged civet coffee production Throughout 2014 our Stop Sea Turtle Farming campaign resulted in 20 major retailers in five countries – including will continue the advocacy, public awareness and education Harrods – refusing to sell it by the end of the year. work needed to end this cruel practice once and for all. Costing up to $100 (USD) per cup, civet coffee – or Kopi Luwak as it is known in Indonesia – is one of the world’s most expensive drinks. Traditionally it is made from coffee beans partially digested and then excreted by civets – small cat-like animals – in the wild. But our campaign launched in September, to coincide with The production a BBC programme on the issue, revealed how civets are Image: A civet cat looks out from increasingly being trapped and farmed in South East Asia. a cage inside a coffee farm in process for civet Film footage showed how the animals, which are by nature Bali, Indonesia. coffee involves civets solitary and nocturnal, endure great stress, injury and disease Image: A wild green sea turtle on Nicky Loh/Getty Images for World Animal Protection partially digesting and and are consequently completely unsuited to being farmed. a coral reef. iStock. by Getty Images Two of the world’s leading coffee certifiers – the Rainforest then excreting coffee Alliance and UTZ – are now working with us with the aim of beans. introducing cage-free certified civet coffee.

33 Case study Protecting Pakistan’s bears

“My day always starts early with an inspection of the site. First I make sure the electric fence surrounding the sanctuary is working well. This fence is so important to the bears’ safety. If they broke through they wouldn’t survive long in the wild. The cruel mutilations and injuries they endured through bear baiting and bear dancing mean they are unable to defend and feed themselves. Throughout 2013 we continued to protect Pakistan’s The new lives we have given them are so bears from the horrors of bear baiting. Our partnership different from the horrors of the bear baiting with the Bioresource Research Centre of Pakistan ring. I’m delighted when the torn muzzles (BRC), means this cruel entertainment has become increasingly unacceptable. and wounds on their noses and necks from the metal rings and ropes that once Only nine events were held in 2013; compared with wealthy landlords, who traditionally might have held events confined them heal well.” 35 in 2012. And when we first started our work just 16 on their land, agreed to do the same. And we negotiated years ago, an estimated 1,000 events were held allowing with Pakistan’s Federal Public Service Commission to include Sahib Raheem, Balkasar Sanctuary Manager trained fighting dogs to inflict unimaginable suffering on animal protection issues and bear baiting examples in their defenceless bears. curriculum for people applying for government jobs. If this is During 2013, BRC teams monitored 121 public fairs approved in 2014 it, will be a great step forward for bears and 23 private properties in Punjab and Sindh provinces in Pakistan. – traditional locations for bear baiting events. Successful What’s key to our anti-bear baiting work is supporting bear collaboration with the local authorities meant they were able owners to find other ways of making a living in exchange for to stop three out of five events from taking place. handing over their animals to our care. Five wounded and Throughout the year we also supported the BRC team in traumatised bears were rescued by the BRC team and taken their mission to encourage spiritual leaders and landlords to the safe haven of our Balkasar sanctuary for expert care to speak out against this horrific and un-Islamic practice. By and attention. And, crucially, their former owners have turned the end of 2013 a total of three highly influential spiritual their backs on bear baiting and are now successfully running Image: Sihu, meaning ‘flower’, rescued leaders and 2,000 mosque leaders had been moved to give their own general stores, which we have helped them set up. in 2012 relaxes in Balkasar sanctuary, Pakistan. anti-bear-baiting messages to their followers. Eighty seven

34 35 We inspire Alice to move the world

Since we were founded more than 30 years ago our “I was very impressed by World Animal Protection’s loyal supporters have helped us make an amazing professionalism, its clear communications and the sincerity difference to animals all over the world. Here, a and competence of its staff. I felt this was an organisation very special supporter, Alice Simpson from Sydney that could make a real difference to animals across Australia explains why she has enthusiastically and the world.” generously been part of our work for 12 years – Alice has been particularly inspired by our work and counting. in lobbying and collaborating with governments and international organisations to put animal protection firmly As a child of parents who owned a farm, Alice says that on the global agenda. she first became aware of the capacity of animals to feel “I believe that in addition to the essential role of local “I could see they had individual faces and pain, fear and suffering from a very early age. community level campaigns, acting at a global level personalities. I saw the strong maternal “I could see they had individual faces and personalities. by informing and influencing national and international I saw the strong maternal instinct of the mother cows and organisations is vital. It has great potential to make big instinct of the mother cows and sheep and sheep and their distress when the calves or lambs died or leaps forward in animal welfare,” she says. their distress when the calves or lambs died were taken away from them.” “I hope that through my contributions to World Animal or were taken away from them.” And this early empathy has stayed with Alice throughout Protection and those of others, word will spread, more her life. supporters will join us and animal protection will become “I have always had a great love of animals and have mainstream. I believe this will then result in dramatic been very distressed by cruelty towards them. I’ve also changes to the way humans treat their fellow animals.” found that the more aware I am of issues – as distressing as it is to read details of the suffering of animals – the keener I am to contribute.” She explains that the issue that moves her most is the plight of animals confined to factory farms. We are so grateful to Alice “I have had the pleasure of seeing farm animals and all of our donors who contentedly grazing in a paddock. The contrast to the life of a factory farmed animal is stark. To give farm animals make so much of our work some quality of life and to encourage the humane possible. Together, we really production of meat is a cause I feel very strongly about.” are moving the world to Image right: Sheep in a paddock, Australia. Alice first became aware of our work in 2001 – and protect animals. iStock. by Getty Images was soon moved to get involved.

36 37 Image: Khin Maung Myint ploughs farmland with his cows in Mandalay, Myanmar where we have been working with local communities on We put animals on disaster preparedness for several years. the global agenda

The World Organisation for Animal Health. The Moving the United Nations veterinary educators in 27 countries across Latin America, UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The UN We worked closely with the UN in 2013, reaching Africa, China, and south and south-east Asia. By training Office of Drugs and Crime database. The General a number of milestones: veterinary educators to understand and teach animal Assembly. UNESCO… In 2013, we moved decision welfare, we are in a unique position to equip them, makers all over the world to put animals on the For the first time in history, we moved the UN and the next generation of vets, to move the world global agenda. General Assembly to include animal welfare in to protect animals. two resolutions. This will encourage governments Improving laws, changing lives all over the world to commit to protecting animals Making an impression on UNESCO We joined forces with various animal welfare when developing their policies. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and organisations to develop a formal index of animal Our status at the UN was upgraded from Special Cultural Organization) has endorsed our materials for protection in a range of countries – the Animal Protection to General Consultative Status, reflecting both our schools – First Concepts in Animal Welfare and Education Index. This aims to improve animal welfare policy and credibility and the contribution we’re able to make. for Sustainable Development. Our school materials are legislation across the world by ranking the performance We were accepted as a key partner in the UN now in at least 14 countries around the world. All of which of governments. In 2014, we’ll launch the first phase, Food and Agriculture Organization’s Global means we could reach as many as 35,000 teachers and ranking 50 governments which will be selected according Agenda of Action. 25 million children this year. to the number of farm animals in their country. We participated extensively in all public consultations on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Gathering information, generating intelligence Throughout 2013, we continued to gather information Educating, educating, educating and generate intelligence through our Investigative Our Concepts in Animal Welfare teaching materials give Affairs team. A particular highlight was when the team us access to veterinary professionals and policy makers was accepted onto the UN Office of Drugs and Crime across the world. That’s why we have translated these database, which helps prevent crimes, including those into Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Thai. And we’ve against animals. disseminated them to over 850 vet schools to be used by

38 39 2013 2012 Income 2013 US$’000 US$’000 Our financial summary Donations from individuals 60,377 60,650

Institutional funding* 822 1,229

Legacy gifts 11,002 12,675

Following a strategic decision to use some of our such as China; and greater engagement with the UN as 80,000 supporters to express their support for our sanctuary closer to sustainability as a long-term home Investments and other 3,637 352 accumulated reserves to maintain our momentum in we worked to incorporate animal protection into the UN’s campaign to promote cage-free farming. We have also for vulnerable bears rescued from appalling conditions 75,837 74,905 moving the world to protect animals, the global result for Sustainable Development Goals. completed a model farm project in China and put animal around the country. World Animal Protection has also *Funding from trusts and foundations, businesses, inter-governmental 2013 shows another, smaller deficit of $0.9 million (2012 welfare on the agenda at the United Nations Food and continued to work in Vietnam and Korea to end the and international organisations. deficit: $4.6 million). We have been able to increase our investment in our Agriculture Organization. inhumane practice of farming of bears for their bile. animals in communities work by 31 per cent during 80+1451+A In 2013, our global income remained fairly stable at the year, using pilot projects and scientific evidence to Thanks to the on-going support of our donors, our disaster Your continued support is invaluable in moving the world 2013 2012 $75.8 million thanks to the continued generous support of demonstrate that mass culling is ineffective in controlling response teams helped protect over 1.3 million animals to protect animals. From lobbying governments and the Expenditure 2013 US$’000 US$’000 World Animal Protection donors. The comparative income rabies. We continued to work with global stakeholders, in 14 operations across 11 countries. Your amazing UN to place animal welfare firmly on the agenda, to figures shown in the accompanying table are presented in and we signed a global memorandum of understanding response enabled us to provide emergency aid to supporting small farmers to safeguard themselves and Fundraising 18,026 18,720 a different format to those in our 2012 Global Review to (MOU) with the Global Alliance for Rabies Control thousands of affected animals in the Philippines following their animals in the event of a disaster, we continue to better demonstrate the types of income we receive. (GARC) to complement efforts to combat rabies across Typhoon Haiyan. Our teams were there into the new move the world to ensure animals are valued as a critical Global advocacy for animals 16,927 13,628 While our total expenditure was reduced by 3.5 per cent the world. We also signed an agreement with the China year supporting longer-term recovery. We also made part of the solution to the world’s biggest challenges. Animals in farming 12,897 19,229 in 2013, our programmatic expenditure as a proportion Animal Disease Control Centre (CADC) for a three-year history by entering into a partnership with the International of total expenditure stayed steady, at 73 per cent of project which aims to save at least 500,000 dogs from Red Cross and were successful in securing a national Animals in the wild 11,652 13,182 overall expenditure. We hope to be able to increase being needlessly culled in response to rabies. 80,000 declaration that animals should be included in disaster our charitable expenditure and expand our work in dogs have already been vaccinated in three pilot areas. plans in all states in India. These key achievements are Animals in disasters 8,277 7,236 the future, however this is dependent on securing reflected in the increased expenditure on our disaster further funding. Following the significant investment made in our European work in 2013. Animals in communities 6,504 4,979 Dairy Campaign in 2012, we reduced our animals in Paul Baldwin Our global advocacy work increased significantly by farming expenditure in 2013, but we have continued We have continued to save bears from suffering, moving Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee 3+81115172224+A Organisational support 2,439 2,559 24 per cent in 2013 as we continued our drive to put to move the world to improve the lives of farm animals three spiritual leaders, 87 landlords and 2,000 mosque 76,722 79,533 animals on the global agenda. The main reasons for the in a number of ways. Our campaign to improve farm leaders in Pakistan to support our efforts to end bear increase were the development of the Animal Protection animal welfare in North America has seen us become baiting. We have also achieved success with the inclusion Index, which will be published for the first time in 2014; the only animal welfare organisation to participate in of animal welfare in the curriculum for governmental The figures are extracted from World Animal Protection global 2013 2012 expansion of our investigations work to help us prepare the Sustainability Consortium’s first industry-driven Animal trainees in the country. In Romania, we have supported consolidated accounts which are non-statutory and unaudited. They are Surplus/(deficit) 2013 US$’000 US$’000 for new campaigns, especially in the area of wildlife; Welfare Advisory Panel, alongside businesses such as the Zarnesti Bear Sanctuary with a series of successful provided for general information purposes only. All accounts of individual growth of our education work, including into countries Wal-Mart, Subway, and McDonalds, motivating nearly bear rescues and rehoming operations, moving the World Animal Protection offices however are audited locally. (885) (4,628)

40 Image: In Nicaragua, following a series of tropical storms, Thank you we taught veterinary skills to community leaders to enable them to help their remote villages.

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Tanya Kim Dr. Wulf Hirschfield Maya Meux David Stettler Fancy Pants Group Tanya Streeter Ann-Louise Hittle Arlette Meynard Craig Stevenson IBM Employee Service Center Tono Phakin Khamwilaisak Amanda Hopkins Janet Milbrandt Frances Stevenson Luma Pictures Jean Howard David Milner Jane and Dan Streek Microsoft Giving Campaign Olivia Hu Alan Morris Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Street PayPal Giving Fund-Missionfish We would like to remember the many Leah Hunt Lanie Mossey Susan Suwinski Power Shack Inc. people who left us a gift in their will in 2013. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hunter Marguerite Munger Vin Talwar Stungun Productions Their generosity ensures that we are able J. A. Hyra Ali Murtaza Catherine Tamasik SuccessFactors to continue our work to change the world Richard Ivey Lorraine Oberfeld and Alejandro Doring Margaretta Taylor for animals. Stephen and Lareen Jacobs Leslie O’Loughlin Kent and Mary Taylor Dr. Roxana Jafarian Susan Oneal Clare Thaw We would like to thank the following Greg Janusz Christopher Osgood Thanat Thiramon celebrities for their support in 2013: Kathleen Johnson Maureen Osolnik Amy Thomas Andy Kalinowitsch Karen Outland Laura Thompson Abbie Cornish Amy Kauffman Sabine Persenaire Marlene Titus Alesha Dixon Peggy Kavookjian and David Linnea Peterson Eva Rodriguez Tlusti Amy Williams MBE Nora Cynthia Pett-Dante Cheryl Toth Asher Keddie Karen Kehoe Dr. Nadia Postupna Irene Trautman Bambi Sirinsopit Pachimsawat Scott Kelly Donna Provance Alma Tuchman Barry Hay Mr. and Mrs. Murray S. 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Lorraine Schieve James Wintersteen Kristin Chenoweth Dwight Lowell Rae Schumacher Mary and Michael Wood Kyly Clarke Image: An owner brings his dog Carter Luke Michael Sedek Clive Wood Leona Lewis for vaccination in Cainta, Philippines. Harry Lynch Karolyn Senica Anna Lou Wooldridge Liisa Winkler

44 45 We look forward To protect animals To protect animals To protect animals To protect animals To put animals on to 2014 in communities in farming in disasters in the wild the global agenda

We will: We will: We will: We will: We will: In 2013 we helped tens of thousands of animals, launch a new rabies control develop compelling campaigns, deliver help where it is needed act through our Sea Change publish the first ever Animal project on Flores and Lembata research and evidence to most when disaster strikes campaign to save a million marine Protection Index – a formal index Islands, Indonesia with the Food move farmers, businesses and animals by working with seafood of animal protection in a range of and their communities, all over the world. But we’re continue our fruitful partnership and Agriculture Organization governments towards higher companies to clean up ‘ghost nets’ countries with the IFRC (International not about to rest on our laurels. Here are just some of the United Nations and the welfare practices, standards lost and discarded in our oceans Federation of Red Cross and make sure the needs of animals are Indonesian government and regulations of the things we’ll be doing in 2014... Red Crescent Societies) launch a new global campaign addressed by the UN’s Sustainable help the Kenyan government demonstrate welfare and to protect wild animals from being Development Goals continue our successful partnership develop their national rabies business-friendly solutions that traded as luxury pets and goods, with the Indian National Disaster move another 15 national eradication strategy and the farming industry can adopt for traditional Asian medicine, and Management Authority to ensure governments and regional support them to pilot it in three as entertainment ensure that those responsible animals are included in the economic/political communities to Kenyan counties for policies determining the emergency plans of Indian states. continue our work to stop bears support a Universal Declaration on work with our Romanian partners future of global food and farming being captured for entertainment Animal Welfare. to improve the welfare of dogs in recognise animal welfare’s and farmed for their bile. their communities and influence the vital role. government to stop cruel dog culls.

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