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Our shared passion and vision isdelivering real change or animalsacross the globe. The ate o animalsrests with people, so together wechampion the wellbeing o animalsas a vital solution to global challengesand move the world to make theirprotection a local priority and aninternational concern. Now morethan ever is the time to stop animalsuering, and in 2012 we progressedtowards this goal together.Thank you or being with us.
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Thanks to your generosity, rabies-driven culls
no longer pose the huge threat that they once
did to dogs in Bali and were making good
progress towards repeating this success in
Bangladesh. Our vaccination campaign has
protected hundreds o thousands o dogs
against this terrible disease and saved them
rom indiscriminate culls. This work is now a
compelling showcase through which we are
convincing more governments including
China that ending culling and turning to dog
vaccination is the only humane and eective
way to combat rabies.
You supported us as we played a key role in
putting the suering o billions o arm animalsrmly on the global agenda o the United
Nations Rio 20+ Earth Summit, showing
delegates the vital links between animal
wellbeing and caring or our planet.
We also launched two large regional
campaigns to move people and businesses
to end the intensive arming o hens in
North America and to protect dairy cows
in Europe rom lives spent indoors two
vast areas o animal suering caused by
animal connement in industrial arming
systems. Our Dutch oce achieved early
success in the latter when its proactive media
campaign secured commitment rom a major
international cheese manuacturer to use
the milk o pasture-based cows, ensuring
thousands o cows cam live more natural
lives on grass.
By the end o the year, your donations ensured
that we could directly help more than 130,000
animals let suering in the wake o disasters.
We worked with governments across the
world, including Australia, Mexico and India,
to ensure animals are no longer the orgotten
victims o emergencies. We are also leaders in
the eld o disaster preparedness: in 2012 our
expertise was recognised by the International
Federation o the Red Cross and Red
Crescent and sought by the government o
Vietnam, demonstrating a growing recognition
that the ates o disaster-struck animals and
their owners cannot be separated.
Our 2012 achievements or wild animals
include playing a key role alongside other
groups in the end o bear dancing in
India, an ambitious goal many o you have
championed with us or years. Our dedication
paid o: we worked with the government on
its new nationwide bear protection plan, a
massive step towards ensuring that Indias
bears will remain in the wild where theybelong. We also launched our Stop Sea Turtle
Farmingcampaign, which speaks out against
the arming o this endangered species.
I we are to make the greatest and most
lasting impact or animals, we cannot ght
to end their suering in isolation; the worlds
most signicant global challenges o ood
security, poverty and climate change can only
be addressed when the humane treatment
o animals is a critical part o the solution.
This is why we will be working throughout
2013 and beyond to convince governments,
businesses, organisations and individuals
o this inextricable link and earning animals
the better treatment they deserve, using the
powerul examples that your support has
helped make possible.
We look orward to sharing our progress with
you through the coming years.
Mike Baker Mark Watts
Chie Executive President
We hope you will nd thisGlobal Reviewan inspiringtribute to everything that wehave achieved together oranimals in 2012. With your helpwe are moving the world tomake powerul changes thatbenet animals and stop theirsuering across the globe.
Mark Watts
Mike Baker
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WSPA Board o Trustees
Our UK-based Board o Trustees is largely composedo representatives rom some o the worlds largestand most infuential animal welare organisations and
oers guidance to all regional WSPA boards.
Mr Mark WattsPresident
Ms Hanja Maij-WeggenDeputy President
Mr Paul BaldwinMr Dominique Bellemare
Dr Bjarne ClausenDr Chinny KrishnaMr Carter LukeMrs Marcelle Meredith
Dr Andrew RowanMrs Cecilia Vega LeonDr Hugh Wirth
Mike Baker
Chie ExecutiveJohn TrampleasureDeputy CEOSteve McIvorDirector o InternationalCampaigns
Ian Cawsey
Director o Policy andExternal AairsNick StevensInternational Director o
ResourcesMargaret WestRegional Directoror Asia Pacic
Ruud Tombrock
Regional Directoror EuropeSilia SmithRegional Directoror North America
Lyndall Stein
Interim RegionalDirector or Arica andthe Middle East
Alredo BottiInterim Regional
Director orLatin America
Trusteesandsta listedatdate opublication
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togetherLiving We are building a worldwhere people understandand value the inextricablelinks between their ownwellbeing and that o theanimals in their communities.To do this we are movinggovernments and ordinarycitizens to protect the dogsthat provide companionshipand the working animals thatstrive so hard to help peoplemake ends meet. Our work or
animals supports the realmso poverty eradication andsaeguarding public health,showing we truly do livehere together.
Nirob, a community dogin Tongi Municipality,Bangladesh, receives ared collar to show she hasbeen vaccinated against
rabies, protecting herrom rabies-driven culls.
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Persecution and inhumanenational and local culls arecruel acts o lie or millions odogs around the world; manyculls are uelled by our earo rabies. But by showcasinghumane and eective solutionsand activities based on soundevidence and research, weworked hard throughout 2012to convince governments andcommunities that vaccinationand education oer a saeruture or all.
Tens o thousands o dog lives have been
saved and reported rabies cases are
dropping, a rewarding result o our work to
end inhumane culling in Bangladesh. The rm
oundations o rabies control, laid through our
2011 pilot vaccination programme in Coxs
Bazar, inspired Bangladeshs government
to work with us to train local people to carry
out a mass dog vaccination project across
the northern hal o the country. This led to
the rapid vaccination o 49,000 dogs by our
dedicated teams in 2012. The government
is preparing to adopt a similar approach in
the south o the country, demonstrating the
powerul incremental ripple eect o oursuccessul and humane solutions
Thousandssaved byBangladeshvaccinations
Exciting rst as China pilotsdog vaccination
We laid the oundations to save the
lives o many thousands o dogs in an
exciting rst or us and or China: a dog
vaccination-ocused partnership with the
China Animal Disease Control Center. The
agreement, signed in 2012, paves the way
or ground-breaking humane rabies control
projects in key areas o the country that
have experienced outbreaks o this deadly
disease and subsequent distressing culling
o thousands o dogs. We look orward to a
successul pilot that will move the Chinesegovernment to adopt a humane approach
to rabies control nationwide and to end
cruel culls orever
Latin America leadsthe eld
We were delighted on World Rabies Day
in September, when our role in moving
governments and communities to adopt
humane strategies to end dog culls was
publicly supported by the Pan American
Health Organization (PAHO). As the worlds
oldest international public health agency,
PAHO has successully championed mass
dog vaccination alongside Latin American
countries or the past 30 years, protecting
millions o dogs rom cruel deaths. With
this infuential supporter behind us, we arecreating important partnerships with Latin
American governments such as Mexico,
Peru and Brazil, showcasing their mass dog
vaccination successes globally to motivate
other nations to ollow suit
Ten-year-old Sumon holdsa local puppy as it isvaccinated and sprayedwith non-toxic paint in Tongi
Municipality, Bangladesh.The paint shows this dogis no longer threatenedby nor presents thethreat o rabies.
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Banding together or donkeysin Palestine
Hundreds o hardworking donkeys in
Palestine have had their lives dramatically
changed or the better through our joint
project with the Palestine Wildlie Society.
Beatings that were once so common in the
project area are now virtually unheard o;
the donkeys sot noses are protected rom
harsh chain nosebands by colourul covers
made by our supporters; and local people
continue to be trained to become community
acilitators ambassadors and agents o
change or good donkey care.
Throughout 2012 the eight acilitators worked
closely with owners and the projects mobile
veterinary clinic to prevent donkey health
problems beore they actually start, with
spectacular results. Parasite inections, which
cause terrible sores and painul itchy skin,
were cut by a urther 40 per cent in 2012 and
incidences o pressure sores caused by ill-
tting equipment were more than halved.
Lie-threatening heat stress cases were
reduced by 38 per cent throughout the
year as local people ollowed veterinary
and acilitator advice, working out ways to
provide much-needed shade and water in the
parched landscape.
In 2013 even more donkeys and the owners
who rely on them will benet as we extend
the project to six more communities
Bali showcasesoutstanding success
Our 2011 vaccination programme in Bali
saved hundreds o thousands o dogs rom
cruel and indiscriminate slaughter on this
beautiul island. This work saw human rabies
cases drop by 35 per cent and dog rabies
cases by 76 per cent in just six months. We
work locally to infuence change globally: the
programmes outstanding success was vital
in convincing the Bangladesh government to
trial mass dog vaccination in their country.
Our science-based solution has moved
other major players to back vaccinationand oppose culling. The Bali initiative has
proved so eective that the government
o Bali and the Food and Agriculture
Organization o the United Nations (FAO)
developed a partnership in 2011 to
continue our lie-saving work. They have
vaccinated a urther 200,000 dogs, which
has the potential to save hundreds o
thousands rom cruel deaths. A vaccination
round o 250,000 dogs planned or early
2013 will keep Bali on track or the eventual
elimination o rabies rom the island.
Research we commissioned rom the
Royal Veterinary College, launched towards
the end o the year, showed that within
10 years the mass vaccination o Balis
dogs could result in overall savings o up
to $16 million (USD) as the need or post-
exposure prophylaxis and treatment or
dying people declines. This is a vast gure
or an island economy to be able to direct
to its other pressing needs
Forward ocus
We will continue to ocus on an end to
inhumane culling in 2013, protecting
dogs by working with people and
authorities in countries including:
Indonesia, where we have signed an
agreement with the Global Alliance
or Rabies Control to run a our-year
programme on the island o Nias, with
the goal o eliminating rabies in dogs
and people
the Philippines, through a three-year
programme to stamp out canine rabies
and so end rabies-driven animal
cruelty in the cities o Marikina
and Cainta
Zanzibar, where we will build on our
existing work to develop a humane
dog vaccination campaign that aims
to produce results that will move
other Arican nations to end their
culls or good.
In 2012 we laidthe oundationsto help save manythousands o dogsrom cruel deathsin China
We work with the PalestineWildlie Society to changethe way owners see andtreat their working animals.
The resulting improvementsto equine health andwellbeing are a huge reward.This armer has broughthis horse, which is ingood condition, to theprojects clinic to havea noseband tted.
Over the last our years wehave improved the lives otens o thousands o donkeys,horses and mules, andsupported entire communitiesby revolutionising the wayowners with limited resourcescare or their animals.
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We carried on working with dedicated
Pegasus ounder Zvika Tamuz during 2012,
and together we saved 135 and rehomed
126 abandoned and injured working
donkeys, horses and mules. Pegasus
is a recognised expert equine rescue
organisation in Israel; since we began to
work with Zvika in 2008 he has been able
to rescue 723 donkeys and horses rom all
over the country and give them proper care
and treatment at his purpose-built acility.
This level o achievement has inspired
high-level support: the Israeli government
calls on Zvikas expertise to investigate
cruelty cases, and Pegasus works at the
border crossings between Palestine and
Israel giving advice on donkey care. Thanks
to our project, donkeys are receiving better
care and treatment on both sides o the
border and consequently conscations by
Israeli ocials on animal welare grounds
were down by 10 per cent in 2012 an
achievement that benets both donkeys
and their owners.
We eel proudest when our help is no longer
needed and local partners like Pegasus
have the resources to carry on their vital
role independently. Throughout the year we
supported this hardworking organisation
to develop in the areas o undraising,
recruitment, administration and social
media activities, all o which will help it
along the road to sel-suciency
Planning theuture withPegasus
Shimi, one o Pegasusdedicated sta, ensuresrescued donkeys receivethe ood they need to
return to ull health.
We distributed nearly16,000 protectivenosebands to donkeyowners in Palestinein 2012, every onehandmade byour supporters
People have been inspired tochange: they are genuinely lookingater their donkeys better, withthe community acilitators as afrst point o contact or donkeycare, advice and treatment.
The enthusiasm we see is justincredible. They have regulargroup meetings and workshopsto exchange innovative ideassuch as a pool donkey system.
This means that when someonesdonkey is ill they can arrangeto use the pool donkey sotheirs has the time to rest and
recover without an impact onthe amilys livelihood.
Alistair Findlay, Middle EastProgrammes Manager, WSPA
PeteWedderburn/WSPA
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Tom was homeless and alone in the busy
streets o Coxs Bazar, until he adopted
a amily.
He just wandered in o the street and never
let. He was a scrawny little puppy at rst, but
we thought he was nice-natured and so were
happy to let him stay with us. Hes been with
us or about three months now, his owner,
Mitubollah, told us.
Mitubollah welcomed news o our rabies
vaccination programme in Coxs Bazar and
in the Tongi Municipality, which is part o
Bangladeshs Greater Dhaka region and
where rabies is a very real ear or local
people. He careully held Tom or his
vaccination by the vet and also or the quick
spray o yellow paint that marks this riendly
little dog as one o the 1,200 given lie-saving
vaccinations by our team that day.
I knew dog bites could make you ill and so
Im pleased my amily will be sae and Tom
wont get the disease.
Just a ew months earlier, Toms ate could
have been very dierent. Local authority
teams swept through the area leaving meat
poisoned with strychnine or the dogs to
eat. Distressed local people watched their
community dogs twitch and die in agony
as a result o these utile attempts to stamp
out rabies.
But today, our work in Bangladesh means
Tom and thousands o other dogs in both
Coxs Bazar and Tongi are sae rom both
rabies and the horrors o rabies-driven
culling. As dog bites are very oten the
cause o people catching rabies, Toms
vaccination is protecting the communitys
health too a key infuencing tool when we
encourage governments to end culling and
adopt vaccination.
Eleven-year-old Shaon rom Tongi told us:
I hated seeing the dogs being poisoned.
You could see the men who had to do it didnt
like it either, but they said it would keep us
sae I the work you are doing will protect
dogs and people, its a very good thing.
Parul is just one o tens o thousands o
young children who live in the challenging
circumstances o Coxs Bazar. She loves
the dogs and puppies that roam her crowded
streets; her amily helps to eed them despite
their obvious poverty. But until we stepped
in to vaccinate the community dogs,
Paruls amily eared this closeness with
dogs could kill her.
In Tongi, we heard the tragic story o how
Ruebel, a 10-year-old boy, contracted rabies
rom a puppy he had brought home. Several
weeks ater being bitten, he developed
extreme pain, ever and hallucinations;
he became aggressive and reused to
We helped localteams vaccinate49,000 dogs againstrabies in Bangladeshin 2012
drink water because the disease made him
unable to swallow. Two months ater the initial
bite Ruebel died an agonising death.
We are working hard with the government
and with communities to make deaths like
this a thing o the past or the people o
Bangladesh. Although it is too late or Ruebel,
children like Parul are already being protected
by Tom and the other vaccinated dogs they
love so much dog vaccination orms a
natural barrier against rabies that protects
people and animals, together
ProtectingTom
ProtectingParul
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togetherWorking We know that a world wherearm animals are treatedhumanely, in systems that donot destroy the environment orcompromise peoples wellbeingand livelihoods, is not animpossible dream. Our workocuses on moving consumers,industry and governments torecognise this, as we channelour knowledge and expertisetowards areas where we canmake lasting change. It is auture that animals and we will play a part in.
We are campaigningto achieve cage-ree
conditions or the manymillions o hens in North
America, the majority owhich suer in connementtheir whole lives through.This arm in BritishColumbia is proving it
doesnt need to be this way.
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Vital training relieves sueringat slaughter
Billions o the worlds arm animals are
treated inhumanely at the time o slaughter
and experience unimaginable ear, pain and
suering as a result. We dont accept this is
how it has to be our ar-reaching approach
is allowing us to tackle this unacceptable
situation. In 2012 we delivered animal welare
training to nearly 1,700 people in China and
Brazil (including slaughterhouse managers
and technicians), meaning that 660 million
arm animals did not experience extreme
and unnecessary suering at the end o their
lives. And or every person we train, we hope
to create an animal welare advocate who will
in turn educate others, ampliying our impact.
As well as welcoming our training initiatives,
the Brazilian government has asked or our
input into its revision o humane slaughter
legislation. We are the only non-governmental
organisation that has been asked to
contribute. And in China our team has been
working hard to ensure the adoption o the
rst humane slaughter standards by the
government. The credibility o our work
means we are perectly placed to be a
voice or animals at these crucial moments
o opportunity
United Nations marks world rstor arm animals
Our persistent, science-backed lobbying
came together with pressure rom ar-
sighted governments in June to convince
the United Nations to include animal welare
in discussions at its Earth Summit (Rio+20).
This ground-breaking decision marks the rst
time that animals and their treatment have
ever been considered in global discussions
on sustainable development at this level.
This gives us the recognition and oot in
the door that we need to ensure that arm
animal welare continues to be a core part o
international ood and arming debates.
Our campaign stressed the positive
links between good arm animal welare,
humanitarian and environmental issues and
sustainable development. It was backed by
ground-breaking research into the enormous
water consumption o industrial arming and
by case studies o successul high-welare
arms. With over 500,000 supporters
backing the Rio+20 Pawprint campaign, we
were able to show international decision
makers that people around the world both
recognise and support the role animals can
take in tackling global crises
Outdoor grazing is a vitaleature o Namibiasvibrant livestock industry.We work towards seeingthese conditions betteror animals and people replicated elsewhere.
By training nearly1,700 people in betteranimal welare we haveprotected 660 millionarm animals romunnecessary sueringat the end o their lives
A world rst in globalrecognition or arm animalwelare; millions more armanimals than ever beore beingtreated humanely; campaignsthat open eyes, hearts andminds these are just someo the tremendous milestoneswe reached or arm animalsin 2012.
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In Australia our Humane Chaincampaign
to stop live animal exports rom the country
gained great momentum during the year,
as we reached a total o nearly 180,000
people backing our petition against the
trade. In just our weeks 77,837 people had
pledged their support at The Body Shop
stores via our joint I stand up or animals
initiative, launched in July, showing the
power o strategic partnerships.
This tremendous public backing helped draw
national attention to our report:Australias live
animal exports: an economic analysis of the
live exportation of cattle from Australia.This
report, targeted at government and industry,
shows the benets that moving towards a
chilled and rozen meat trade would haveor the meat industry and the Australian
economy in general. This switch is vital to
save millions o sheep and cattle rom the
great suering and stress they endure on the
long sea journeys rom Australia to the Middle
East and Indonesia.
Campaignactions gainground orarm animalsworldwide
Cows belong on grass.These young dairy cowsin Friesland, Netherlands,are able to eat, roamand socialise on pasture,growing strong to produce
milk without cruelty.
Forward ocus
We will do even more to saeguard
the worlds arm animals and promote
kinder and more sustainable arming
in 2013, by:
developing our campaigning work to
protect the welare o arm animals
in those countries where intensive
arming is growing at the astest pace:
China, India and Brazil
producing strong evidence and case
studies to move businesses and policy
makers by proving that high-welarearming oers a viable, sustainable
uture or our ood
continuing to be involved in
international debates on ood security
and climate change and making a
strong case or international policies
on ood and arming to protect the
welare o animals.
In North America we launched the
Choose Cage-Freecampaign, which is
inspiring consumers and businesses to
commit to buying cage-ree eggs to reduce
the number o hens conned to battery
systems. Currently a massive 95 per cent
o all eggs in North America are produced
in this way.
And in Europeour new campaign
Keep Cows on Grassasked millions
o people to speak out against the
rise o industrial dairy production that
connes huge numbers o cows to
permanent indoor living. Our campaign
persuaded cheese companies in the
Netherlands to produce cheese only
rom pasture-based milk and we expectmany more to ollow their example.
In addition, our Supporting Better
Dairy coalition with Ben & Jerrys and
Compassion in World Farming has resulted
in widespread support or EU laws to
protect dairy cows
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Francisco Raael Diaz Sanchez is proud o
his arming heritage. I come rom a cattle-
raising tradition. My ather, my uncle, my
grandathers... and now my sons work with
me. My animals have supported me and
helped me make my living all o my lie,he says.
Francisco keeps 700 bee cattle on two
arms over 200 hectares in total in a
rural area just outside Monteria, a city in
northern Colombia.
This experienced cattleman told us that
this time last year he might have described
himsel as knowing just about everything
there is to know about arming. That was
until our animal welare training courses run
with the Colombian Federation o Livestock
Farmers (FEDEGAN) took him by surprise.
I ound I didnt really know about animalwelare and what it could do or productivity:
good handling, helping animals remain
calm when in contact with people, good
eeding, making sure they have shade
Beore the training, their productivity was
around 50 per cent and now it is at 85 to
90 per cent. Currently we have a champion
cow in milk yield, and I am convinced that
this is because we have used the good
animal welare practices we were shown.
Francisco is just one o 272 FEDEGAN
producers in Colombia that we have trained
since 2011, improving the treatment o
hundreds o thousands o bee and dairy
cattle and infuencing a new tradition o
animal-riendly arming as a result
The Sanchez herd numbers 700 animals,
just a raction o the 14 million cattle raised
or bee in Colombia. They represent one
o the countrys most important industries,
contributing to the rural economy and to
the ood security o the whole nation. Andunlike bee cattle in other parts o the world,
which are oten kept intensively and rarely
experience resh grass and sunlight, the
Sanchez cattle, like most in Colombia, are
kept outside on grazing land and ree to
behave naturally.
But despite such idyllic sounding benets,
until recently most Colombian cattle aced
serious welare threats, caused by rough
handling striking, kicking and use o sharp
implements to get them to move and
procedures such as branding, dehorning,
castration and ear tagging without
consideration o pain relie or control.
But all this is changing or the Sanchez
herd and many others. The animals
welare has improved signicantly since
we stepped in to provide the advice and
guidance needed or sustainable change
to take hold. Their owners attendance at
our welare training courses means they
are now handled regularly and correctly to
Thearmers
story
Theherdsstory
get them used to human contact; as a
result the cattle are much less skittish
and stressed, and saer or humans to
be around too.
In 2013 we will be improving lie urther orthe Sanchez herd and thousands o other
Colombian cattle. Our next project with
national body FEDEGAN involves developing
up-to-date science-based animal welare
indicators and related recommendations
or bee and dairy cattle care, which can
be used to help armers make immediate
improvements and measure their animals
progress on a yearly basis
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LearningtogetherHelping animals starts withpeople, so winning overproessionals who caninfuence owners and peersand young people with alietime o animal encountersahead o them are two crucialactivities undertaken by oureducation teams acrossthe globe.
Bangkok
Beijing
London
Busitema
New
Delhi
Hanoi
Puebla
Cartagena
VietnamOur work is about making people
understand the value o animal welarein education, enough to take it orwardthemselves. So we were delightedin July when Hanois department oeducation and training announcedthat it would introduce FCAW to everysingle junior secondary school within
the citys 29 districts by the end oJuly 2016. This is the only animalwelare education programme toever have been adopted by the city,creating the potential to touch thelives o hundreds o students andthe animals they come into contactwith every year.
ThailandTeachers are powerul infuencers intheir schools and wider communities,which is why we partnered with
Thailands Bangkok MetropolitanAuthority in 2011 to train teachers indelivering animal welare messages totheir students. In July 2012, the rst55 primary school teachers graduatedrom our training course and arenow incorporating animal welare
into their lessons. The programmehas been an outstanding success;alongside extending it to otherteachers we will also be encouragingteacher training institutes in Thailandand beyond to do the same.
IndiaOur ground-breaking education workin India achieved high recognitionin 2012. In November we wereawarded Best Outreach Programme
on Animal Welare by the infuentialFederation o Indian Animal ProtectionOrganisations. To date, 83 qualiedteachers rom South Delhi MunicipalCorporation primary schools havebeen accredited as animal welareeducators and 238 student teachers
have been trained in animal welareeducation, ensuring the FCAWmessages reach a wide youngaudience. This kind o success isvital in convincing other nations andregions to adopt animal welare as akey educational concept.
UKWe were proud to launch a uniqueand powerul multilingual onlineresource, Animal Mosaic, in July atwww.animalmosaic.org. Packed
with animal welare news, views,specialist research and links to peer-reviewed papers, it is specicallyaimed at the academic communityand includes a portal or teachersand lecturers looking or up-to-dateand inspirational animal welare
educational resources to improvetheir students learning. By helping toembed animal welare and animalsentience as a recognised science,we are paving the way or a seachange in the way academics viewand treat animals.
MexicoWorking with the right partners otenamplies our impact or animals, andthis is true in Puebla State, Mexico,
where more than 1 million reetextbooks with a strong emphasis onanimal welare are now being usedby primary school teachers. This isthanks to our new partnership with thestate government and philanthropicorganisation Fundacin Educacin
por la Experiencia, launched in August2012. Our work together also includestraining or parents and teachers onwhy animal welare is an essentialelement o a good education.
UgandaAnimals are now rmly on theeducational map in Uganda. Ourteams work has ensured animal
welare will be part o the curriculumor hundreds o students studyingat Busitema Universitys Facultyo Agriculture and Animal Science,conrming its status as a proessionalnecessity or those working withanimals. Here the students are training
to become para-veterinarians andhave great scope to improve armanimal welare as they work withowners and animals in more remoteareas o the country under theguidance o veterinary experts.
ChinaWe took a signicant step in changingthe lives o huge numbers o animalsin China this year, as the Chinese
Veterinary Medical Association agreed
to roll out our ACAW programme tostudents in all 80 o its veterinaryschools. Until recently animalwelare has not been a prerequisiteo Chinese veterinary qualications.The decision, taken in October, is animportant stage in preparing Chinas
next generation o veterinarians tosaeguard the welare o every animalthey work with.
ColombiaTwo o the worlds most prestigiousveterinary bodies the Pan AmericanCouncil o Veterinary Education
and the Pan American Federationo Veterinary Science Schools andFaculties gave their ull support toour ACAW programme in October2012. This is antastic recognition orour programme in the Americas andwill open even more doors to us as
we continue our campaign to ensureACAW is embedded in all veterinarycurricula worldwide.
Our First Concepts inAnimal Welare (FCAW)work aimed at early yearseducators and AdvancedConcepts in Animal Welare(ACAW) targeting thosein the tertiary sector areinternationally recognised andare changing animals lives.
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togetherSurviving We are there when naturaldisasters plunge animals andpeople into crisis, deliveringanimal care that saves livesand restores health. Our expertinterventions and guidanceenable people to rebuild andto protect their livelihoods,which are oten hugelydependent on their workinganimals and livestock. Ourdisaster preparedness work,recognised by an increasingnumber o governments,
protects communities andtheir treasured animalsrom uture catastrophes.
A WSPA vet assists as a
young cow is treated in CapHaitien, Haiti. This ormedpart o our work in thecountry in 2012 to provideassistance and medicationor animals aected byHurricane Sandy and
subsequent fooding.
WSPA/IsaacMartinez
Fl d ti i AT i th tid d ht
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Last year we protected severalhundred thousand animalsrom a range o disastersincluding foods, droughts andvolcanic eruptions. We alsohelped countries keen to takeadvantage o our expertise indisaster preparation. Our workis demonstrating that the roleo animal welare in disasterresponse is inextricable romhumanitarian goals. In 2012this was rewarded as wedeveloped pioneeringinternational partnerships with
humanitarian aid agencies.
Flood rescue operation in Assamrestores livelihoods
We acted switly to save animals severely
aected by the fooding o Indias
Brahmaputra River in 2012. Between July and
October our work brought hope to desperate
people in north-eastern Assam who were so
earul that their livelihoods had been swept
away in the erce and dirty food water.
We provided 119.3 tonnes o rice bran
or starving cattle and pigs and quickly set
up eight veterinary health camps to treat
the terrible injuries so many animals had
experienced in the devastation. The camp
veterinarians, through vaccinations and othermedications, also protected as many as
possible against the outbreaks o disease so
common ater foods.
And when the waters subsided we returned
in September to equip local people or uture
foods. Flood resistant animal shelters, odder
storage banks, evacuation plans and the
development o household veterinary kits are
just some o the preventative measures we
helped them put into place
Turning the tide on droughtin Chihuahua
Our hardworking response teams oten
ace the irony that in some disaster situations
loss o animal lie and peoples suering
is caused by too much water and in others
by not enough; their expertise and training
means they can take on board whatever
is thrown at them.
During 2012 we started working in the
Chihuahua area o northern Mexico at a
time when there had been no rainall or two
years and crop ailure or three years running.
Cattle were dying in their thousands; their
carcasses littered the parched landscape.
To help the distraught armers save as
many animal lives as possible, we helped
the local authorities establish local emergency
committees and distributed mineral salt
blocks. Furthermore, by building dams,
improving irrigation and developing watering
holes and wells, we helped local people to
make the most o existing water supplies.
So ar around 200 grateul amilies and
2,500 livestock have beneted rom our help;
the dams will continue to help people make
the most o the available water or years
to come
We returned to Haiti ollowingTropical Storm Isaac inSeptember 2012 to providevital veterinary care. Manypeople and animals we helpedwere still recovering rom the2010 earthquake.
WSPA/IsaacMartinez
We helped 505,773animals aectedby disasters in11 countries in 2012
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Image let: We worked
with around 500 villagers,government agencies and
Indias National Army toconduct an emergency drillin Bihar State that helpedanimal owners better prepareor disaster.
Image above: In Chihuahua,Mexico, we worked withlocal people and authoritiesto help build dams asustainable solution to thesuering and devastationcaused by drought. While we
worked, we met immediateanimal need with mineralblocks like this one.
We convince governments that ormally
planning or animals in emergencies
is critical to protecting animal health,
peoples livelihoods and the uture o
their nations. In 2012 we specically
ocused on working with the governments
o India, Australia, Mexico and Kenya
nations that have great infuence in
their regions to encourage them to
introduce emergency response plans.
We are also developing case studies
o eective planning in Costa Rica,
Colombia, Vietnam and New Zealand,
which are keen to develop examples o
best practice. The establishment o an
animal emergency und in Costa Rica
and agreement rom the Vietnamese
government to work with us to roll out
livestock emergency guidelines andstandards are just two o our successes
in 2012
Emergencyplanning savesanimal lives
Forward ocus
Our work to protect vast numbers
o animals aected by disasters will
continue to grow and develop in 2013.
Our exciting plans include:
continuing to link with the Food
and Agriculture Organization o the
United Nations and humanitarian aid
agencies to ensure joined-up thinking
to protect animals and peoples lives
in disaster situations
developing an economic model that
shows governments and key decisionmakers how investing to protect
animals in times o disaster costs
much less than dealing with the
issues resulting rom their loss
protecting thousands o animals and
their owners in Assam rom uture
disasters through the continuation
o our disaster preparedness work.
We distributed119.3 tonnes o ricebran to owners ostarving animals infood-stricken Assam
WSPA/NikolaAnakabe
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Dalimya lives near Seujia Pathar, in Assam
State. The countryside is normally green,
lush and dotted with arm animals and the
people who care or them, peaceully going
about their everyday business. But in July the
region was devastated by foods.
When the food waters rose Dalimya was
orced to evacuate to higher ground.
Somehow she and her amily managed to
bring their several cows and Lai Bai (Red
Brother), a young bull, to saety with them.
Dalimya knew she had to act quickly the
loss o her animals would not only have
caused her great emotional distress but
also their deaths would mean she could no
longer work her elds and provide ood or
her amily.
Ater several weeks, the fooding began to
subside, but sadly Dalimyas animals were
still not sae; where the animals once grazed,the food waters had created a breeding
ground or lie-threatening diseases and
parasites. But our disaster response teams
were there to give Dalimya and her animals
the hope and the practical help they so
desperately needed. We delivered 119.3
tonnes o eed or starving animals in this
region as well as veterinary care, vaccinations
and medicines to strengthen their weakened
immune systems.
As our team met Dalimya with emergency
aid, her eyes lled with tears o relie. And in
October when we went back to the region
and ran our disaster preparation workshops,
we made sure to stop and check in on her.
With your help, Lai Bai and my cows had
enough to eat this helped them and my
whole amily. Thank you so much,
she said
This young bull survived the devastating
Assam foods; he spent weeks on raised
village roads near Seujia Pathar ater his
shelter was fooded. Hundreds o others were
not so lucky. Bhigu, his owner, was hugely
relieved not to lose Bugi he is vitalto Bhigus livelihood, ploughing the
elds ready or cultivation. Both survived
catastrophe this time, but the foods let
Bhigu worried or the uture.
Ater minimising animal suering as food
waters receded in Assam, we turned our
ocus to protecting the regions animals in
the event o a uture disaster. And this is
why Bugi was approached by strangers
bearing measuring tapes and notebooks.
Gathering simple animal health inormation
by weighing and measuring animals in the
area recording their details when they are
in good health is an important part o our
disaster preparedness work. Now, i theworst happens, the villagers can use this
inormation to see how their animals are
doing in the atermath and to assess i they
are getting enough ood.
We have also worked with Bhigu to make
sure that he has planned a clear evacuation
route or Bugi and the other animals that he
cares or. And he is just one o many owners
who can now better saeguard his animals:
we ran disaster preparation workshops
or all o the villagers; helped them plot
a calendar or the year noting periods o
rainall, planting, harvests and occurrence o
diseases; and explored ways o saely storing
ood and building improved shelters.
We hope this work will help the residents
o Seujia Pathar and animals like Bigu cope
with uture disasters and, i successul, will
be adopted elsewhere in India. Our goal is
always to help break the eects o the annual
disaster cycle and ensure communities are
better prepared so their animals are sae,
says Hansen Thambi Prem, WSPA disaster
project manager
Dalimyasstory
Bugisstory
t thTh i i
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togetherThriving Our wildlie work is led by avision: a world in which wildanimals are protected in thewild, are not used, abused,armed or sold. A world inwhich animals are valuedand protected by all. To makethis a reality, we create wide-reaching and meaningulcampaigns that shit theattitudes o governments andinspire people, convincing themto make saeguarding wildanimals wherever they are
a local and global priority.
Bears at the Zarnesti
Sanctuary watch as thegate into the nal enclosureis opened. Funded byWSPA supporters, thisspace will enable the lasto Romanias remainingcruelly-kept bears
to spend the rest otheir lives in a peaceulorest home.
WSPA/JiriRezac
Thousands o bears experience A b b iti P ki t i tti T t th b i lik Vid
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Thousands o bears experiencegreat suering and exploitationthrough bear baiting anddancing and the extractiono their bile these are someo the most extreme ormso cruelty aced by any wildanimal today. We took greatsteps orward during 2012 tobring their ordeals to an end.
A bear-baiting-ree Pakistan is getting
closer to reality, as our work with partner
the Bioresource Research Centre o
Pakistan (BRC) achieved spectacular results
during the past year.
We saved 10 more wounded and
traumatised bears rom the horrors o
the baiting ring and delivered them to the
specialist care o our Balkasar sanctuary,
run by BRC. Their ormer owners were
supported to nd dierent ways o making
a living in exchange or transerring their
bears to the sanctuary. Sadly, ater only a
short time in his new peaceul surroundings
and despite expert care, one o the rescuedbears Vidaar (Forest Warrior) died as
a result o chronic illness that developed
during his hard lie in captivity.
Bear baitingsharply declines
Bear dancing in India was a horric
entertainment that subjected thousands
o bears to capture rom the wild as cubs
and a lietime o terrible cruelty. But in 2012
we celebrated our part in ending this cruelty,
a momentous achievement or all the groups
working on this issue and or our long and
successul partnership with the Wildlie
Trust o India.
It was no easy task. Our approach to changewas that it had to be real and sustainable, so
we trained over 400 Indian ocials in anti-
poaching tactics, convinced local people that
bear dancing is cruel and destructive to the
countrys wild bear population, and persuaded
bear owners to give up their animals or
alternative ways o making a living.
Further to this, we worked with the Indian
government to develop the pioneering
National Bear Conservation and Welare
Action Plan 2012. This comprehensive
strategy, launched in November, will ensure
the uture protection o Indias bears. It is the
rst o its type to be adopted by an Asiangovernment; we want this to go global.
We will use Indias example to inspire other
governments to adopt equally strong wildlie
protection policies
To stop other bears suering like Vidaar, our
work also ocuses on infuencing people to
oppose baiting beore the bear ever reaches
the ring. In 2012, religious leaders in nearly
2,200 mosques incorporated anti-bear
baiting messages into their Friday sermons
ater being convinced by the project
team o the un-Islamic nature o this cruel
entertainment. By the end o the year our
eort meant that at least 266,167 people
had heard this message.
We also infuenced a sharp drop in planned
baiting events: 116 were planned at public
airs in 2008, compared with nine public
and 26 private events in 2012. O those, 22were stopped at planning stages ater we
supported BRC to intervene
Since 2008 we havesaved 44 bearsrom the horrorso bear baiting
Reech (let) became oneo the latest bears to nd
a home ree rom violenceat Pakistans BalkasarSanctuary. Here he meetsLeela, another bearrescued rom the horrorso bear baiting.
Final curtain or bear dancing cruelty
Forward ocusBattle or bile ban continues
Our work convinces global and
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We plan to move even more people to
care or bears and nd urther evidence
to protect these amazing animals in
2013, by:
conducting a thorough investigation
into bear dancing in Pakistan
continuing our mission to eliminate
bear baiting and give rescued
bears sanctuary
building on the progress achieved
in South Korea to generate a tideo opposition against the bear bile
industry in Asia.
Our work with the International Union or
Conservation o Nature (IUCN) Congress
the worlds largest and oldest environmental
organisation paid o in September when
it issued a landmark motion identiying the
bear bile industry as a very real threat to bear
conservation.
An IUCN motion called or: countries to
close down illegal bear bile acilities; a cap
on the growth o the industry in China; and
or independent scientic research and
tracking o wild bear populations to be
provided at the next Congress. This evidence
will be vital to our campaign to ban thebile trade and shut down the arms that
condemn tens o thousands o bears to
unimaginable suering.
Throughout the year we lobbied and worked
with the South Korean government, alongside
our partner Green Korea United, to prepare
a management plan to ensure the bears
currently armed or their bile are properly
cared or once the industry is nally banned.
A private members bill is expected to be
proposed in early 2013. I successul, it will
ultimately ban bear arming and dene the
care needed or the bears involved.
And in Vietnam, recent reports indicate that
our ongoing work with the government has
contributed to a reduction in the captive bear
population rom 4,500 bears in 2005 to areported 2,300 in 2012
glocal communities to breaknew ground in saeguardingthe welare o our planetsprecious wildlie. Endingcruel and unnecessary hunts,protecting wild animals incaptivity, ghting wildlie crimeand addressing the devastationcaused by marine litter were allhigh on our agenda in 2012.
We broke new ground again in 2012 by
hosting Untangled, the worlds rst ever
symposium on the impact o marine litter
on animal welare. At the event endorsed
and part-unded by the United Nations
Environment Programme we inspired
60 international experts to sign a
declaration pledging to take action to
protect the worlds marine animals rom
needless suering.
During the three-day event held in Miami in
December, specialists rom governments,
intergovernmental organisations, non-
governmental organisations, academia and
the shing and plastics industries ocused
on nding solutions to reduce the volume
o marine litter entering the oceans, removethe dangerous litter already there and
rescue the millions o animals that become
entangled in it every year. Untangled
explored a host o inventive ideas and has
laid rm oundations or our uture work
on the issue, not least by positioning us as
the organisation best able to bring together
all the key actors to protect animals rom
marine litter
Marine litter worldrst: animals inthe spotlight
We saved hundreds osea lions on the coasto Chile by mobilising100,000 supporters,local partners andpeople to speak outagainst the cull
Our symposium soughtsolutions to the terribleeects o marine litteron animals. This juvenilegray whale is entangled in
a lobster trap the ropecaught in its mouth andbaleen with no way toree itsel.
BrandonCole/naturepl.com
Investigation exposes turtlearming cruelty
Tour operators wake upto seal slaughter
Moving the worldor wildlie Forward ocus
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g y
Credible research, extensive investigations,
sound science and determined pressure rom
our supporters come together to help us
create hugely successul campaigns. Between
2011 and 2012, we investigated and exposed
the horric reality o wildlie arming at the
worlds only sea turtle arm. We uncovered
shocking evidence o cannibalism, disease,
overcrowding and genetic deects on a site in
the Cayman Islands where more than 9,500
turtles are not only handled by tourists, but
are also bred, armed and slaughtered or
their meat.
When the arm reused to act upon our
damning ndings backed by Sea Turtle
Conservancy, the worlds oldest sea turtle
research and conservation group more
than 150,000 distressed WSPA supporters
rom 150 countries were moved to call or
immediate action to improve conditions.
As a result, the Cayman Turtle Farm
announced an independent assessment o its
operation to be published in January 2013.
This document acknowledged emaciation,
severe injury and a high death rate among
young sea turtles but ailed to demonstrate
an understanding o their welare needs,
and so our work continues
g
We make powerul arguments or animals.
Oten, convincing governments and industry
that good animal welare makes good
business sense is central to our campaigns.
In 2012 we galvanised one o the worlds
largest ethical tourism industry alliances and
13 international tour operators to press the
Namibian government to stop the commercial
clubbing to death o up to 85,000 seal pups
and shooting o 6,000 adults each year
and ocus on developing seal watching as a
revenue generator instead.
Our campaign Seen and Not Hurt wasdescribed as a shock and wake-up call
by tourism operators. It revealed that once
aware o the largely secret slaughter almost
47 per cent o tourists would avoid going on
holiday to Namibia because o the hunt. We
backed this up with a powerul independent
economics report illustrating that seal hunting
accrues less than a quarter o the revenue
that seal watching industries already bring
to Namibia, and that while markets or seal
products are closing all over the world, seal
watching tourism has strong economic
growth potential
Our investigationinspired 150,000supporters toprotest the crueland unacceptableconditions at theCayman Turtle Farm
We went all-out to promote and deliver wildlie
protection in 2012. Our other lie-saving
achievements included:
stopping hundreds o sea lions being
killed by the Chilean government through
our mobilisation o 100,000 supporters,
local partners and people to successully
stop the cull; we also prevented the
governments planned capture o nearly
100 more or sale to aquaria
persuading the Brazilian government and
shing industry to work with us on a uniqueproject that will save tens o thousands
o the Amazons river dolphins rom being
cruelly and illegally slaughtered or catsh
bait, while protecting local livelihoods
running a successul project in the
Faroe Islands to assess potential or
whale watching a promising rst step
towards a uture where Faroe Islanders
could consider the economic and other
benets o watching whales, in place
o hunting them
deending wildlie rom international crime
through our continued unding o the
Metropolitan Polices Wildlie Crime Unit
in London, a major hub or the Illegal
wildlie trade
We are committed to saeguarding the
wildlie that contributes so signicantly
to our planets biodiversity and beauty.
Join us in 2013 as we:
convince the Cayman Turtle Farm
to close its breeding and arming
operations and cease to allow
tourists to handle the turtles, and
ocus instead on sea turtle rescue
and rehabilitation
launch a campaign to stop millions
o marine animals rom becomingaccidentally entangled and killed by
shing gear
continue our work in the Faroe Islands
with an aim to establish a compelling
business and tourism industry case or
watching whales, not killing them.
This Cape Cross seal puplives under the threat oa brutal death, just or itsur. Our strong economicargument against thecull has moved tourism
operators to back up ourcase as we speak to thenational government.
riRezac
AMP
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Liviu Cioineag remembers eeling very
distressed as a little boy by the plight o two
caged bears, living in terrible conditions near
a restaurant by a ski resort. Liviu describes
how he saw their paws reaching out through
the rusty bars, and wanted desperately tohelp, but elt there was nothing he could do.
Years later, when working as a journalist,
he heard that the bears had been rescued
and were sae at a new sanctuary near
Zarnesti in the Carpathian Mountains.
Their new home was none other than the
Romanian bear sanctuary unded by WSPA
supporters; the bears were Christi and
Lydia, its rst residents.
Now Liviu can make the dierence he elt
powerless to enact as a child, and sees Lydia
and Christi virtually every day. In June last
year he put his journalistic career behind
him to take on what he describes as his
dream job o sanctuary manager. His keyresponsibilities are overseeing the 20 sta,
planning the release o Romanias remaining
15 or so captive bears and developing
undraising capacities. He believes including
educational activities in the sanctuarys remit
is vital in protecting his countrys wild bear
population rom harm.
We have a lot o children who want to come
to the sanctuary. We need to educate them
about the need to protect Romanias bears
in the wild and to show them that bears like
Christi, Lydia and Charles should never, ever
be kept in cages. My dream is to develop
an education centre that will inspire people
to support our lie-changing work andmake them want to protect Romanias wild
bears orever. I am so grateul to WSPA or
working with us to make this wonderul place
possible, he says
For the majority o his 40 years Charles lived
a miserable existence. Instead o spending
his days in a orest lled with trees, pools and
bird song, he was conned to a small, barren,
concrete-based cage in a ailing zoo.
But last year an organisation that was trying
to assist the ew animals let at the zoo asked
us to help Charles. We ound him in a sad
state: dea, nearly blind and barely able to
move in his cramped environment. We made
his rescue a priority. In 2012 the much-
needed third enclosure o the Romanian
Bear Sanctuary, run with partner Asociatia
Milioane de Prieteni (AMP), gave us enough
space to oer a happier lie-long home to
bears like Charles.
On his arrival at the sanctuary, AMP vets
conrmed that not only was Charles dea
and blind, he also had heart, lung, dental anddigestive problems. But despite such serious
health challenges and his great age, Charles
headed or his orest enclosures pool as
soon as he was released. As he played and
splashed in water or the rst time in his lie,
members o the rescue team were moved to
tears. He is now living peaceully next to Max,
another blind bear.
Charles story is sadly typical o the
72 Romanian bears that we have rescued
rom cruelty in captivity and given a sae
haven where they can spend the rest o
their days in peace and tranquillity. By the
close o 2013 we plan to have rescued theremaining 15 or so o Romanias illegally
held captive bears
A newchallengeor Liviu
A new lieor Charles
WSPA/Jir
Ater several years o nancial surpluses,
we made a strategic decision to use a
proportion o o r acc m lated reser es We
Our global legacy income again grew
impressively, by 27 per cent, orming 17 per
cent o our total income; the Netherlands
dairy cows and North American hens rom
connement in industrial arming systems,
as well as Stop Sea T rtle Farming
The comparative expenditure gures or
2011 shown in the accompanying table
are recalculated rom those in our 2011FinancialAt WSPA we are committed toending animal suering around
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proportion o our accumulated reserves. We
set a decit budget or 2012 to increase our
programmatic expenditure by 31 per cent and
to give added impetus to the implementation
o our strategy, launched in 2011, which aims
to achieve positive and sustainable change
or more animals. In 2012 our supporters
continued to be generous and our gross
income rose once again, but more slowly and
less consistently across geographical regions
and income streams than in recent years.
Our regular donors, the bedrock o our
income, continued to demonstrate their
commitment to our vision by increasing theircontributions by over ve per cent, although
most regions aced diculties in securing
new donors, due mainly to continuing
sluggish economic conditions. The amount
received through major gits rom individuals
and grants rom trusts and oundations was
lower than in 2011, as our income that year
was boosted by one exceptional git.
cent o our total income; the Netherlands
perormed especially strongly in this area.
This oce delivered an early success in the
Keep Cows on Grasscampaign, which used
media interest and corporate engagement to
animals best advantage. There was urther
growth in Thailand, the hub o much o our
disaster management work, which again
perormed above expectations, with a
73 per cent increase in gross income.
Investment income was positive in 2012,
ollowing losses in 2011.
Much o the increased spending has been
invested in building our capacity to achieveour objectives, particularly in our country
and regional oces. The greatest growth
areas were Animals in Farming, up by 53
per cent, Animals in the Wild, up by 61 per
cent, and Global Advocacy or Animals,
where expenditure increased by 72 per cent.
The ormer two have seen major campaign
launches in 2012: to protect European
as well as Stop Sea Turtle Farming.
These campaigns, like all our work,
were underpinned by global advocacy
expertise rom our teams specialising in
science, investigations, education and
external aairs.
Expenditure on our Animals in Communities
programme was lower; this was in part
attributable to the greater external unding
o our initiatives, demonstrating the belie
governments and others have in our
proven and sustainable solutions to
end inhumane culling.
Expenditure on Animals in Disasters was also
lower as there was no single major disaster
in 2012, but preparedness work the act
o protecting animals beore a disaster
strikes continued at a high level with the
governments o India, Australia, Mexico and
Kenya amongst others, rmly positioning us
as animal welare leaders in this eld.
are recalculated rom those in our 2011
Global Reviewto better demonstrate the
broader role o our communications work
in supporting all o our campaigns and the
variety o responsibilities undertaken by our
global leadership team.
I hope the real change and achievements
or animals captured in this review rom
the end o bear dancing in India to the
exposure o and eorts to end sea turtle
arming in the Caribbean conrm your
belie in us. Thank you or your ongoing
support as we seek to end animal
suering together.
Dr Andrew Rowan
Chair o the Finance and Audit Committee *
*in the period o reporting
Income 2012US$000
2011US$000
Appeals, gits anddonations regular
45,422 43,086
Appeals, gits and
donations single
16,454 20,322
Legacies 12,675 10,013
I nvestments and other 354 (160)
74,905 73,261
Expenditure 2012US$000
2011US$000
Animals in communities 4,426 7,078
Animals in arming 19,732 12,904
Animals in disasters 7,236 8,356
Animals in the wild 12,963 8,061
Global advocacy oranimals
13,897 8,074
Fundraising 18,720 15,177
Organisational support 2,559 2,475
79,533 62,126
0 %
61%22%
17%6%
25%
24%
3%
16%
9%17%
YTD 2012US$000
YTD 2011US$000
Surplus (4,628) 11.135
We work with communitiesin disaster-prone areasto put in place preventativemeasures that will betterprotect animal healthand human livelihoods.
This picture shows oneo around 2,000 bualoliving in Puttalund Province,Thailand, where our teamhas looked or ways tomitigate the eects orecurrent fooding.
Thegures are extractedrom WSPA globalconsolidatedaccounts which
arenon-statutory andunaudited. They areprovidedor generalinormation
purposes only. All accounts oindividualWSPA oces however are
auditedlocally.
For morenancialdetails o WSPAs globalnancialaairs, pleasecontact
WSPA International. For urther nancialinormation about individual
WSPA oces, pleasecontact therelevantoce (details on back cover)
or WSPA International.
Financialsummary
ending animal suering aroundthe globe, and our nancialactivity is a undamentalpart o achieving this. Weact responsibly and spendstrategically to ensure we aregaining the greatest changeor animals we can with theresources we have.
Your generosity is what enablesus to protect millions o animals
WSPA Australia
Daniel and Berry Almagor
Rita Andre
Laura Cull
Eden Conservation Trust
Edward Y Reid II and Lester J Bartson III
Linyi Baidal Sequeira, Misin Permanente
de Costa Rica ante la ONU
KarinaBaznThank youAs well as giving our sincerethanks, we would like to make
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pevery year. We never take yoursupport or granted. We hopethe achievements reported hereinspire you to stay with us aswe continue to work harder andsmarter or animals aroundthe world.
Rita Andre
Karen Bevilaqua
Shirley Brine
Je and Linda Brivik
Denis Brophy
Elizabeth Cartier
Je and Debbie Compton
Lisa Curran
Kit Fielder
Wayne Fitzherbert
Dr Fiorina Gabba
Gayl Harrison
Havaianas
Don Hilton
Peter and Barbara HoadleyMary Howieson
Hunter Hall
Intrepid Travel Pty Ltd
Anne Konrad
Nigel Madeley
Melinda McIver
Robyn McKeown
Victor Menson
Steve and Sharon Molver
Jane Mundy
Kath ODoherty
Anita Ortega
Mary OSullevan
John and Alice Purcell
Maria Ridsdale
Rhonda Rowland
Dr Alice Simpson
Meridy Taite
The Body ShopMarjorie Wallace
Richard Wilenski
Margaret Wilson
WSPA Canada
490824 Ontario, Inc.
Dora Ahdab
Aqueduct Foundation
Elizabeth Aszkanazy
BMO Bank o Montreal
BW Underwriting Services, Inc.
Edward Y. Reid II and Lester J. Bartson III
Canadian Foundation
Debbie Engel
Debbie Fong
Paul Frasca
Grace Hall
Graham Hallward
Betty Hasler
Jessica Holmes
Jennier Hopper
Linda Hoyle
Hullmar Realty Canada Ltd
James A. and Donna-Mae
Moore Foundation
Patricia KovalKatherine Le Butt
Thomas Liddell
Marlene Mackenzie
Sylvia Mantella
Eric Margolis
Daryl L. Merrett
Vern Militec
Margaret OHanley Duy
Bruce Palmer
Ronald A. Rhodes
Harley S. Rothstein
Isabel Schmidt
Jane Taylor
The Calgary Foundation
Matthew and Charlene Todoruk
Watermark Insurance Services
Helen Whibbs
Edith Wright
WSPA Central America, Mexico
and the Caribbean
Gloria Abraham, Ministra de Agricultura
de Costa Rica
Lic. Marta Eugenia Acosta, Contralora
de la Repblica de Costa Rica
Martha Erika Alonso de Moreno Valle
Virginie Andre, Agencia de Cooperacin
Europea-ECHO
Asociacin Panamericana de Ciencias
Veterinarias-PANVET
Karina Bazn
Xavier Castellanos, Federacin Internacional
de la Cruz Roja-IFRC
Enrique Castillo, Canciller de la Repblica
de Costa Rica
Consejo Panamericano de Educacin en las
Ciencias Veterinarias-COPEVET
Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation
Organization
Federacin Panamericana de Facultades
y Escuelas de Ciencias Veterinarias-FPFEC
Fundacin para la Adopcin, Apadrinamiento
y Deensa de los Animales-FAADA
Lic. Mario Gmez
Instituto Nacional de Ecologa de MxicoJamaica Environment Trust
Vctor Juliao, Presidente de la Comisin
de Poblacin, Ambiente y Desarrollo de la
Asamblea Legislativa de Panam
KIDO Foundation
Ricardo Mena, Ocina de la ONU para
la reduccin de riesgo, Estrategia
Internacional para la Reduccin de
Desastres de la ONU-UNISDR
Movimiento de Guas y Scouts de Costa Rica
Francisco Mungua
Alo Piva, Vicepresidente de la Repblica
de Costa Rica
Armando Prida Huerta
Programa de Restauracin de Tortugas
Marinas-PRETOMA
Erick Quirs, Director de Operaciones del
Ministerio de Agricultura de Costa Rica-MAG
Dr German Rojas, Director del ServicioNacional de Salud Animal de Costa
Rica-SENASA
Jorge Sols Santacruz
Save Our Sea Turtles-SOS Turtles
Sea Turtle Conservancy
Dr Juan de Jess Taylor y Dr Eduardo Perez
Egua, Asociacin Mexicana de Escuelas
y Facultades de Medicina Veterinaria
y Zootecnia
Cristian Horacio Teczon Vccon, Presidente
Municipal de Teocelo
yor beingpart o theWSPA amily
,a commitment to you.
Where cruelty is most severe,where cruelty is most ar-reaching,we will be there. Where we canmake the biggest dierence,we will be there. Where globalissues impact on animals,we will be there.
Our work to end damagingconficts between animalsand people ocused onelephants in Tanzaniain 2012. We introducedan innovative method tostop elephants destroying
crops and protect themrom suering the humanbacklash: strategically-placed beehives, a antasticnatural elephant deterrent!
Legacies: We would like to remember the
many people who let WSPA a git in their will
Trini Eco Warriors
Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Network-
WIDECAST
WSPA USA
Donors
Kevin Alger
Carrie Priscilla Dobson
Madge Fairax
Marjorie Halter PatrickWeir
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in 2012. Their generosity ensures that we are
able to continue our work to change the world
or animals.
We would like to thank the ollowing
celebrities or their support in 2012
Marc Abraham
Ed Begley Jr
Alice Braga
Richard Branson
Dominic Brunt
Gisele Bundchen
Chris Chapman
Mark CharnockChris Cheney
Kyly Clarke
Alesha Dixon
Hilary Du
Peter Egan
Jennier Ewbank
Ricky Gervais
Brooke Hanson
Kai Meesuk Jangmeesuk
Jay Kay
Asher Keddie
Leona Lewis
Nick Maxwell
Paul McCartney
Deborah Meaden
Tom Milsom
Minotauro e Minotouro
Irmos Nogueira
Andrew ReidLeAnn Rimes
Rodrigo e Rogrio
Por Thrisadee Sahawong
Loretta Schrijver
Tanya Streeter
Verne Troyer
Amy Williams
Liisa Winkler
WSPA Denmark
Aage V. Jensen Foundation
Fabrikant Mads Clausens Fond
Fonden a 24. december 2008
Frimodt-Heineke Fonden
Fru Ellen Bremerdals Fond til hjlp
or hjemlse katte og andre
vildtlevende dyr
Grosserer Ludvig Berlins og Frken Marie
Poulsens Fond
Toyota-Fonden
WSPA New ZealandMiranda Brookie
Barbara Henry
Judith Inkster
Dawn Parish
L. van Plat
Pukeko Trust
Dr Rob Roche
Reiko Sugiyama
Claire Valpy
Bequests
Victoria Batten
Shirley Campbell
Catherine Doull
Beryl Hopkins
Janis HunterClare Jarvest
John Wickham
Florence Wilby
WSPA South America
Pancho Cavero, Peru
Corerias, Colombia
Fundacin EPM, Colombia
Kukuli Morante, Peru
Unidad Nacional para la Gestin del
Riesgo de Desastres, Colombia
WSPA Thailand
TRUE, The Emporium
Amgen Foundation
Mary Berkebile
Debra and Leon Black
Ambreen Brown
Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation
Audrey Buyrn
Cecil B. Demille Foundation
Leslie S. Christodoulopoulos
Mary Crowe
Christine Dale
Ute Gannett
Jean Howard
June Hubbard
Inge FoundationJ.E. Fehseneld Family Foundation
Josephine Peiser Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Peggy Kavookjian
Diana and Abner Kingman
Lannan Foundation
Marguerite S. Munger
Lorraine Obereld
Sharyl Owen
Ann Richards
Sharon Rush
Gaile Russ
Segel Foundation
Frances W. Stevenson
Judi and Howard Strauss
Amanda and Andrew Street
Katie Sutphin
Adam Tarshis
The Baobab Foundation
Marlene G. TitusWilliam & Charlotte Parks Foundation
or Animal Welare
Mary and Michael Wood
Eleanora Worth
Bequests
H. Helenah Allen
Jean Boler
Sally Bordwell
Greta Bunting
Joan Callahan
Mary Hawks
Henriette Lerner-Hahn
Peggy Lieber
Marion MacLean
Ralph Natale
Nina Purdon Charitable Foundation
Bill Pauline
Josephine Rente
Eva Roberts
Charles Saunders
Lois Stevenson
Patty Swarens
Wiggins Estate
WSPA UK
We would like to thank the Wild or WSPA
Committee, particularly Astrid Harbord and
Carole Langton.
Al Fayed Charitable Foundation
Anna Rosa Forster Charitable Foundation
Bear Group S.A. Trust
Scott Beckson
Betty and Stanley Abbett Charitable Trust
Paul Dane
Paul Davis
Dischma Charitable Trust
David Innes
Investigo Ltd
Marsh Christian Trust
Marsh International Animal Welare Award
Muriel Jones Foundation
Persula Foundation
Francesca QuintRuth Smart Foundation
Les Stern
Tom and Suzanne Thomson
Tubney Charitable Trust
Usborne Foundation
In memory: Numerous donations were
made in memory o loved ones. Our heartelt
thanks go out to the riends and amilies
who honoured their cherished memories by
making a git to WSPA.
In 2012 world champion reedriver Tanya Streeter workedwith us to champion thecause o green sea turtlesarmed on her home islando Grand Cayman.
WSPA/
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Working alongside theCambodia Pony Welare
Organisation, our trainingand education workshopshave improved how peopletreat their working horsesand resulted in long-termchange to equine welarein the country.
Please join us in makinga dierence to the lives oanimals and the people thatrely on them by making agit, by inspiring others tosupport our work, or byremembering us in your will.
The generosity opeople like you is vitali we are to achieveour vision o a worldwhere animals matterand animal sueringhas ended.
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No.23, Dongzhimen Wai Avenue
Beijing, 100600
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F: +45 33 93 7210
E: ino@wspa.dk
W: www.wspa.dk
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Mayair Garden, Hauz Khas Enclave
New Delhi110016
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F: +91 11 4653 9345
E: india.enquiries@wspa-asia.org
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222 Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8HB
United Kingdom
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E: wspa@wspa-international.org
W: www.wspa-international.org
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Louis Couperusplein 2
2514
HP Den Haag
The Netherlands
T: +31 70 314 2802
F: +31 70 314 2809
E: ino@wspa.nl
W: www.wspa.nl
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Parnell
Auckland
New Zealand
T: +64 9 309 3901
F: +64 9 336 1947
E: wspa@wspa.org.nz
W: www.wspa.org.nz
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Manzana 1,
Parque Central BavariaBogota
Colombia
T: +571 285 5472
F: +571 285 5748
E: wspa@wspa-suramerica.org
W: www.wspa-latinoamerica.org
WSPA SWEDEN
Hantverkargatan 5 S
Stockholm
112 21
Sweden
T: +46 8 617 7970
F: +46 8 617 1850
E: ino@wspa.se
W: www.wspa.se
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444 Ratchadaphisek Road
Samsennok Huay Kwang
Bangkok 10310
Thailand
T: +66 2 513 0475
F: +66 2 513 0477
E: wspa@wspathailand.org
W: www.wspathailand.org
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222 Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8HB
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)20 7239 0500
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E: wspa@wspa.org.uk
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450 Seventh Avenue
31st FloorNew York
NY 10123
USA
T: +1 646 783 2200
E: wspa@wspausa.org
W: www.wspa-usa.org
Cover image: Bullet was adopted rom the streets o Greater Dhaka,Bangladesh, as a puppy. Here, owner Mohammed Shoagh holds him ater
vaccination by a WSPA-trained team. Vaccinating dogs against rabies
saves their lives both rom the disease and rom indiscriminate rabies-
driven culls. WSPA / Mahmud
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