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 13 5 Our offices 4 9 1 Australia 6 China 11 New Zealand 2 Brazil 7 Denmark 12 Sweden 3 Canada 8 India 13 Thailand 4 Columbia 9 Kenya 14 UK 5 Costa Rica 10 Netherlands 15 USA 2 1 11 Contents 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.