wspa news - spring summer 2012

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WSPANEWSSPRING|SUMMER2012

World Society or the Protection o Animals

A NEW LIFEfor a rescued bear

Thousands moredogs saved throughCOLLARS NOT CRUELTY

30 YEARS OF WSPA what your supporthas achieved
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CONTENTS

IN EVERY ISSUE

4 From the Executive Director

5 Headlines

8 Making a world o dierence

FEATURES

7 Whats on Your Plate?The Hidden Costs o Industrial

Animal Agriculture in Canada a new report rom WSPA

10 Saving lives in Bangladesh

update on the Collars NotCruelty campaign

12 A gracious bear nds aworld o peace

Editor: Elizabeth Sharpe

Contributors: Catherine Gerson, Holly Hewitt,

Josey Kitson, Kirsty McFadden, Michaela Miller,

Elizabeth Sharpe.

Designed and produced by: Serina Morris

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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ITS ABOUTMAKING CONNECTIONS

WSPA News is one o our avourite publications at WSPA its our chance to tell you, our

generous supporters, about all the great things youve accomplished or animals. In the

pages o this magazine, we get to share with you inspiring stories o hope, rescue and

dedication. Its important or us to keep you connected to the animals you have saved.

Through updates on our latest victories and tips on how you can become even more

involved, its clear that together we are making the world a better place or animals. Make

sure you also stay connected to WSPA through our online channels. Visitwww.wspa.ca

to sign up or our electronic newsletter and to join our Facebook and Twitter community.

Throughout this issue o WSPA News youll see that the utureo WSPA and animal welare is about making connections. How

we treat animals and the value we place on their welare has a

proound impact on our lives and the uture o our planet.

Some o the most striking examples o the consequences o

undermining animal welare are outlined in WSPAs new report,

Whats On Your Plate? The Hidden Costs of Industrial Animal

Agriculture in Canada(page 7). This report, the rst o its kind

in Canada, details the negative impacts o industrial animal

agriculture on animal welare, the environment, public health

and rural communities. The report also outlines how making

changes to improve the lives o arm animals and moving awayrom industrial arming will protect our planet, help arming

communities and saeguard our health.

Our Collars Not Cruelty campaign is another amazing example o

how improved animal welare can also protect human lie. In parts

o the world where people still die o rabies, ear o the disease is

causing communities to brutally kill their stray dog populations,

oten thousands at a time. But, the only way to stop rabies is the

mass vaccination o dogs. Thanks to your support, WSPA now

works with communities to set up vaccination projects protecting

dogs and people alike. Read individual stories o hope on page 10.

We think WSPA News is a wonderul opportunity to refect on

everything we have done together or animals. I hope you enjoy

this issue and thank you or your generous support.

Josey Kitson

Executive Director, WSPA Canada

Throughout this issue o WSPA News we are

using QR codes so you can access even more

details about the animals you are helping to

protect through online content and videos.

What are QR codes?

QR means Quick Response code. They are printed

codes, scanned using a mobile Smartphone a

phone that allows access to the internet and

contains applications, known as apps.

Why use QR codes?

At WSPA, we want to bring you, our supporters,

closer to the animals you help by giving you

inormation quickly and easily. Scanning the QR

codes with your Smartphone will take you straight

to the WSPA website where you can watch

wonderul videos and see photos o the animals

youve helped with a ew clicks on your phone.

How to use QR codes

Open up the QR app (you will need to download

the app rst) and hold your Smartphone over

any o the QR codes printed in WSPA News. Try

scanning the QR code above to watch our 2011

achievements video. Look out or more QR codes

in WSPA News and use them to access exciting

new inormation about the animals you help.

GET CLOSERto the animalsyou help.

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Learn more or send a letter atwww.wspa.ca/curbthecrue

NO MORE BULLFIGHTSin CataloniaAt the start o 2012, the lengthy battle to ban bullghting in the

Spanish region o Catalonia nally drew to a close, as last years

prohibition ended bullghting there. The hard-ought measure

ollowed massive campaigning on a local scale by the PROU citizens

platorm, and saw 165,000 WSPA supporters sign the petition asking or

a ban. Now, WSPA is bringing the ght to Mexico and we need your help

again. Please visitwww.wspa.ca or updates and to see how you

can help.

THANK YOUFrom bears in captivity to animals struggling in the

atermath o natural disasters, our amazing donors

have truly made a dierence in the lives o thousands

o animals. You have made each and every success

possible, and on behal o all animals we give you ou

heartelt thanks.

some amazing moments are only available

through videowspa.ca/youtube

Become a an o WSPA or add us as one o

your causes. Go towspa.ca/acebook

Follow us or up-to-the-minute news.

Go towspa.ca/twitter

ReadWSPANEWSonline and see

even more!Visitwspa.ca/wspanewsto subscribe.

Update onCURB THE CRUELTY:Your letters are making a dierence

Since the 2010 release o our Curb the Cruelty report the

Government o Canada has made some encouraging strid

to help arm animals. In October 2010, a ew months ater

we launched the campaign, Canadas Agriculture Minister

Gerry Ritz announced a plan to more than double the ne

or those ound improperly transporting animals.

In the spring o 2011, the

Canadian Food Inspection

Agency announced it would

publish inormation about

transport violations, allowing

public access to inormation

on repeat oenders. In 2012

the Canadian Government

pledged to invest $320,000

in improving the handling antransporting o arm animals

through more driver training

Your letters have made an

impact but arm animals stil

need your help.

WS

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FLOOD RESCUEOperation in BrazilStarving and alone in the food stricken city o Guidoval, in the

Brazilian state o Minas Gerais, a rightened little puppy nally had

some luck when he was scooped up and examined by WSPA vet

Dr Juan Carlos Murillo.

This puppy is just one o the 3,500 cats and dogs that have been rescuedrom the foods by WSPA teams. Thanks to your generosity they have

been working since early January delivering emergency ood, veterinary

care and equipment.

To stay up to date on our disaster management work in Brazil and all over

the world, visit our blog:http://animalsindisasters.typepad.com

Help make FARM ANIMALSMATTERwith PawprintYou know that good arm animal welare is important, but did you

know that it can also protect your health, the enviroment and the

livelihoods o armers?

This summer, the United Nations is holding the Earth Summit in Rio the

most signicant discussion on the uture o the planet. Through WSPAs

new Pawprint campaign, we need your help to engage with Summit

representatives and decision makers to encourage them to include

animals in their plans.Visitwww.wspa.ca/pawprint to learn more

and to join WSPAs petition.

Taking steps towards

ENDING BEARFARMING in Korea

The Korean National Assembly recently voted

through a proposal to prepare measures to

end the practice o bear arming through an

investigation o its current status. The approval

o this proposal is a sign that the Korean

government recognizes the need to end the

cruelty o bear arming.

The Korean National Assembly has made

a great beginning towards ending this cruel

practice, said Chris Gee, WSPA Wildlie

Campaign Manager, it is clear that pressure

delivered by WSPA and local partner Green

Korea United was crucial, as the Ministry o

the Environment chose to reerence a WSPA-

unded poll and our campaigning results in their

submission to the National Assembly.

GKU

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WSPA is proud to announce the release o the rst

comprehensive Canadian report that examines the

impacts o industrial animal agriculture on animalwelare, the environment, public health and rural

communities. We are using the ndings o this report

to spark policy discussions in Ottawa and help

improve the lives o arm animals across the country.

Industrial animal agriculture is bad or

animals, people and the planet

Intensive livestock operations (ILOs) jeopardize our health

through the unregulated use o antibiotics on animals that

arent even sick. Also, the abundance o manure produced

contributes to pollution on the planet and on our plates.

The environmental consequences o industrial animal

agriculture have negatively impacted the earth more

than any other single human activity. ILOs make it nearly

impossible or small arms to compete economically,

eectively destroying the quality o lie in rural areas.

Its arm animals that pay the highest price in the quest

or cheap ood unable to move, subjected to painul

mutilations and bred to produce huge amounts o meat,

milk and eggs. Farm animals are suering but with your

support, WSPA can stop this cruelty.

What can you do?

Visitwww.wspa.ca/ood or moreinormation on the report and to add yourvoice o support or our work!

Nous sommes res dannoncer la publication de la

premire enqute complte canadienne qui tudiera

les consquences de llevage industriel sur le bien-

tre animal, lenvironnement, la sant publique et les

collectivits rurales au Canada. Les conclusions tires

serviront provoquer des discussions dans un cadre

lgislati Ottawa an damliorer la vie des animaux

de la erme dans tout le pays.

Llevage industriel nuit aux animaux, aux

humains et la plante

Les exploitations dlevage intensi mettent en pril notre santpar lusage non-rglement des antibiotiques sur des animauxqui ne sont pas malades. De plus, la quantit de umier produipollue la plante et contamine notre assiette.

Plus que toute autre activit humaine, llevage industriel a eudes eets nastes sur lenvironnement. Les petits leveursne peuvent concurrencer conomiquement les exploitationsdlevage intensi, ce qui mne la dsintgration de la qualitde vie des collectivits rurales.

Mais ce sont les animaux de erme qui paient le prix ort dansla qute pour un produit moins cher. Incapables de bouger,sourants de blessures douloureuses et levs de manire ce quils produisent tellement de viande, de lait et dus,quils ne peuvent se comporter de manire naturelle, lesanimaux sont en train de sourir. Avec votre aide, la WSPApeut mettre n cette cruaut.

Que pouvez-vous aire?

Visitezwww.wspa.ca/ood pour de plusamples inormations sur lenqute et pourunir votre voix notre travail.

WSPA would like to thank Debbie Fong or her generous support o the report launch. Debbie is a vegan and

activist who supports the humane treatment o all orms o lie. In addition, WSPA would like to thank Canadians

or the Ethical Treatment o Food Animals (CETFA) or their generous support o the production o this report.

WHATS ON YOUR PLATE?The Hidden Costs o Industrial Animal Agriculture in Canada

DrOlivierBerreville

Twyla

Francois

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8/16

Making aworld o

dierenceThanks to your support, WSPA vets are

protecting dogs rom cruel culls, rescuinganimals aected by disasters, and relieving

the suering o the worlds billions o arm

animals. Since their important works is only

made possible by your gits, we thought

youd like to meet some o them

MEXICO: Melania Gamboa

Melania is our programs manager or CentralAmerica, Mexico and the Caribbean. Recentlyshe established an agreement with the As-sociation o Mexican Veterinary Schools toensure animal welare is central in the trainingthat new vets receive. Throughout 2012, shewill be working with the Pan American HealthOrganization as part o Collars Not Cruelty, toencourage rabies prevention in Latin America.

UK LONDON: David Wilkins

David Wilkins MBE is our chie veterinaryadviser. He is ormer chie veterinary ocero the RSPCA (UK) and director o Euro-

group which became one o the most infu-ential animal welare lobbying organizationsin the European Parliament. While at WSPAhe has infuenced the veterinary proessionto support a Universal Declaration on AnimalWelare and created a ormal agreementbetween WSPA and the World Organizationor Animal Health.

Maria Nelly, our developmentmanager or South America,has been an advisor to

the Pan American Councilo Veterinary Education,a member o the boardo the Pan AmericanVeterinary Council and theeditorial board o VeterinaryEducation International. Shehas worked closely withthe World Organization orAnimal Health and the Foodand Agriculture Organizationo the United Nations.

COLOMBIA:MariaNelly

Cajaio

Last year when foods and landslides devastatedcommunities in Rios mountain areas, Rosangelaand her team helped more than 3,000 animals bydistributing 14 tonnes o ood or dogs and cats and1,500 kg o ood or cattle, pigs, horses and birds.

They also vaccinated more than 500 dogs and catsto prevent the spread o disease.

BRAZIL: Rosangela Robiero

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PAKISTAN: Jan Schmidt-Burbach

Wild animals are the passion o Jan our wildlieveterinary programs manager or Asia Pacic.One o his key roles is to oversee our bearsanctuary at Balkasar which gives bears,rescued rom the horrors o baiting, a saehaven. The sanctuary, run in partnership withthe Bioresource Research Centre, has beenmade possible through your support and givesveterinary care to bears that have suered someo the worst animal cruelty imaginable.

THAILAND: Ian Dacre

When disaster strikes, Ian our disastermanagement operations manager workshard to protect animals rom harm. More than50,000 animals and their grateul owners werhelped by WSPA teams in 2011. Last year,

during the foods which devastated parts oThailand, we distributed nearly 56 tonneso ood, as well as medicines and veterinarysupplies. Around 10,000 animals were helpedin Bangkok.

Dogs are Wilsonsavourite animaland as WSPAsproject manageror companionanimals he is helpinglocal and nationalgovernments inseveral Aricannations introducerabies vaccinationprojects andhumane methods opopulation control.T

ANZANIA:WilsonJoseph

Thanks to your support o Rastos work, more than6,000 people involved in meat production in Braziland China have been trained by WSPA-dedicatedteams in how to treat animals more humanely at thetime o slaughter and how to improve the acilities thathandle them too. Rasto has also introduced a similartraining program in Vietnam and Cambodia and willbe ocussing on Indonesia in 2012.

CHINA: Rasto Kolesar

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10/16

SAVING LIVESIN BANGLADESH

A red collar for Pinko

Pinko is a year old and has recently had her

rst litter o puppies. But not so long ago sheand the rest o the villages dogs were at risk

o being poisoned and killed. Pinkos mother

was caught in a cull and ed poisoned meat

but thanks to your support, Pinkos uture is

much brighter. WSPAs vaccination program

means that Pinko and her pups will now be

sae rom culls and rabies.

For the people and dogs in the slums and villages in

Bangladeshs Coxs Bazar district, life is hard. Fear of death

by rabies is never far away and with this fear comes the

threat of cruel culls to dogs. But, WSPAs Collars Not Cruelty

campaign is bringing hope to both dogs and people alike.

Every year, more than 55,000 people around the world die rom

rabies. Twenty million dogs are also brutally killed every year and ear

o rabies is oten used as the excuse. People think it will stop rabies.

It doesnt. There is only one humane and eective solution the mass

vaccination o dogs.

Based on past successes tackling the spread o rabies through large-scale

vaccination projects in Sri Lanka and Bali, WSPA developed our Collars Not

Cruelty campaign. Working with governments and community leaders, wevaccinate the dogs and puts a red collar on them, showing the communities

that they are sae saving them rom rabies and cruel deaths.

WSPA recently completed a large-scale dog vaccination project in the

principal resort town o Coxs Bazar in Bangladesh. There, it supported the

national government in vaccinating at least 70% o the areas dog population

enough to ensure that the local dogs will be sae rom rabies. Here are just

some o the stories

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Dhaka says YES to Collars Not Cruelty

Your generous support o our Collars Not Cruelty rabies

vaccination campaign has already helped to save 20,000

dogs per year, in Bangladeshs capital Dhaka, rom cruel and

agonizing deaths.

Prompted by the success of our rabies vaccination program

in Coxs Bazar, the citys government has decided to abandon

inhumane culls as a rabies control method. For decades

tens of thousands of dogs were put to death unnecessarily

and brutally. Yet the rabies situation never improved said

Bangladesh local government secretary Abu Alam Shahid Kha

Throughout 2012, we will be using your donations to work

with the Bangladesh government to stamp out rabies throug

a nation-wide mass vaccination o dogs that will save

countless human and animal lives.

UPDATE

A new lease on life for people too

Nurul Kabir kneels down in a dusty street o Coxs Bazar and

coaxes a timid young dog towards him. Nurul scoops him up and

within minutes, the little animal is vaccinated by WSPA and given

the bright red collar and fash o non-toxic yellow paint to mark him

as ocially vaccinated against rabies.

Nuruls job hasnt always been about saving dogs rom rabies as

a ormer municipal street cleaner he was expected to poison them

in a misguided attempt to prevent the spread o that disease. We

should not have been doing such things to dogs. he says. But no

thanks to your support, Nurul is helping WSPA save thousands o

dogs instead.

Playing safe

Joysna, rom one o the shing villages in Ward Two o Coxs Baza

had her puppy Tony vaccinated. She told the WSPA team that up

to 15 people rom her community had died o rabies in the last ew

months alone.

My neighbour was bitten by a dog and only a ew days later he

died. The amily tried to get him help, but couldnt save him, she

explained. Im pleased that Tony has been vaccinated and that m

children will be able to play with him saely

To support Collars Not Cruelty or to stay up-to-date

on our progress visitwww.wspa.ca/redcollar

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A GRACIOUSBEAR FINDSA WORLDOF PEACE

Thankully WSPA and our working partner in Pakistan, the Bioresource

Research Centre (BRC) are tireless in our eorts.The BRC teamworks to discover the location o uture baiting events and determine

which bears need the most urgent rescue. The members o the team develop

relationships with religious leaders, landlords and ormer bear owners, to stop

as many events as possible beore they even get started.

Happily, in October o 2011, everything ell into place, and another bear

named Milla was rescued. Her owner surrendered her so that he could learn

a new, more lucrative living through WSPAs alternative livelihoods initiative.

Milla (meaning gracious) is ve years old and had spent most o her short, harsh

lie in baiting rings. The scars on her ace and muzzle give testimony to the lie

o terror she once led. Unortunately, due to

the severity o an injury, Milla also became

blind in one eye, a condition that made it even

more dicult or her to deend hersel.

On arrival at our state-o-the-art Balkasar

sanctuary, Milla was anesthetized in the

veterinary clinic, had her wounds treated,

and her painul nose ring and chains

removed. Like most newly rescued bears,

Milla had many untreated wounds, and was

severely malnourished.

Its not easy bringing a centuries old sport like

bear baiting to an end. But bating events, where

2,000 spectators assemble to watch as a tethered

and clawless bear is set upon by fghting dogs,

must stop.

By: Holly Hewitt, WSPA Canada

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The story doesnt end here. We have

just learned that other bears have

been rescued, and we look orward to

introducing them to you as well. Visit

www.wspa.ca or the latest updates

and visitwww.wspa.ca/bearbaiting

to support our bear rescue campaign.

Ater treatment, all the new bears go

through a quarantine period. This allows

the sanctuary vets to administer ongoing

treatment as needed, and also allows

the sta to monitor improvements in the

overall condition o each bear. The bears

receive a diet that is high in nutrients and is

supplemented with additional vitamins and

minerals to make up or a lietime o neglect.

Some o the bears have diculty eating as

they have ew or no teeth, and have suered

extensive damage to their muzzles during

their ghts. Food is specially prepared or these bears so that they can eat

more easily, and gain some much needed weight.

Under the watchul eyes o Balkasars caring sta, Millas condition quickly

improved. Ater spending six weeks in quarantine, she was released into the

large enclosure with trees, lush grass and a swimming pool. According to th

reports we have received rom Balkasar, Milla has a lovely personality and hembraced her new lie, enjoys exploring the enclosure, and loves to nap in

the sun with some o her newound riends.

Thanks to you, the remaining baiting bears in Pakistan will be able to leave

the horror o the baiting rings in exchange or the lie o peace that you have

given them.

A healthy, confdent Milla takes her frst step o reedom, as she leaves

the quarantine area or the large, lush enclosure o her new home.

Milla (let) and Shama (right) enjoying a sunny day at Balkasar.

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Reward yoursel andgive toanimalsHelp animals while you shop.

Every time you use your BMO WSPA MasterCard to make a purchase,

a payment is made to WSPA rom BMO Bank o Montreal at no

additional cost to you.

With Gold BMO WSPA MasterCard, WSPA receives 0.15% o each

purchase and, with all o the non-Gold BMO WSPA Master Cards,

WSPA receives 0.25% o each purchase. This equals $0.15 and $0.25

on each $10 you spend, respectively, which adds up quickly. To date

the BMO WSPA MasterCard has generated over $240,000 to help

alleviate animal suering.

These unds help WSPA carry out lie-saving animal programs around

the world. Every time you shop a percentage o every purchase will go

to WSPA. To apply visitwww.bmo.com/wspa

When disasters strike, WSPA is there

or the animals.

Ater the devastation caused by earthquakes,

foods, and tsunamis, animals are oten theorgotten victims. They may be injured or let

to end or themselves with no ood, water or

shelter ater their owners are orced to evacuate.

Yet animals are vital to the people that depend

on them. The survival o animals is crucial to the

recovery o entire communities.

WSPAs disaster relie teams work year round

to provide animals with ood, water, shelter and

veterinary treatment ater disasters all over the

world, even those that dont make headlines.

Thats why your ongoing support is so valuable.By making a donation to our Animal Disaster Fund

you can help ensure that our disaster management

teams have the resources they need to respond

quickly and eectively. You can help by visiting

www.wspa.ca/disasters

Help animals in disasters

For the latest news and updates on our disaster

relie work, visit our blog:

www.animalsindisasters.typepad.com

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1981 Making new beginningsThe merging o The World Federation or

the Protection o Animals (WFPA) and the

International Society or the Protection o

Animals (ISPA), in 1981 led to our beginning

as the World Society or the Protection

o Animals.

1985 Banning the bullfghtsDance with Death our frst anti-bullfghting

campaign video was launched. Since then

we have battled bullfghting around the

world more than 49 cities in Europe havebanned this cruel sport.

1990 Saving dogsSince 1990 we have supported Dr Gudush

Jalloh o the Sierra Leone Animal Welare

Society to vaccinate 56,000 dogs against

rabies, as well as sterilize and de-worm them.

1992 Caring or bearsLibearty our high profle campaign to save

the worlds bears rom cruelty was launched.

The campaign ocussed on the horrors o

bear baiting, bear dancing and the arming o

bears or their bile; it laid frm oundations orall o our work to protect bears rom harm.

1996Relieving sueringWhen the lives o thousands o animals were

at risk ater a volcanic eruption in Montserrat,

we sent disaster experts to coordinate relie

eorts. Since then our disaster response

work has continued to develop. With your

help we were able to help 330,000 animals in

11 countries last year.

2007Building a brighter utureYour generosity helped us support the

Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Sanctuary in

Borneo when it ell upon hard times.

During 2007, thousands o you were

inspired to donate by the image o little

Kesi, the orphaned orangutan.

2010Making a markWhen Indias Minister o State or Extern

Aairs Tharoor pledged his support or t

development o a Universal Declaration Animal Welare at the United Nations (U

he became the two millionth signatory to

support our Animals Matter campaign.

2011Focussing on armingAt the end o 2011, we launched our

Pawprint campaign to put the need or

kind arming frmly on the agenda at the

next UN Earth Summit in Rio in June 20

Thanks to you30 yearso making animals matterSince our ounding 30 years ago you have helped usmake an amazing dierence or animals. Here are justsome incredible highlights

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Thanks to your dedicationand generosity we have alreahelped so many animals, butwe know that in the next30 years we can do even moTo fnd out how you can helpplease visitwww.wspa.ca

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