WSPA News Spring 2014 by World Animal Protection US

WSPA NEWS SPRING 2014

PROTECTING ELEPHANTS IN THE WILD CHOOSE CAGE-FREE: Progress for Hens

WORLD OF DIFFERENCE: Animals in Disasters

We’re changing our name this June — learn more at wspa-usa.org/change

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Cherish Mom and Animals with REALLY WILD GIFTS This Mother’s Day, honor the mom in your life with Really Wild Gifts. It’s the perfect way to thank that special person who’s always supported and cared for you. Really Wild Gifts protect animals in need, from the many stray dogs around the world facing abuse to bears taken from their families and used in cruel “entertainment” spectacles.

■ With a $40 gift, you could help save the lives of 10 dogs.

■ With a $75 gift, you can help track down and save exploited bears.

Mom will receive an e-card with a personal message from you, including a description of how her gift is helping to protect animals. Show your love for Mom and animals by giving Really Wild Gifts today:

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As a lifelong animal lover, you can help care for animals long into the future. By leaving a gift to WSPA in your will, you create a legacy for animals, continuing your commitment to creating a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty has ended. Your gift will make a vital difference for the animals that need our help in generations to come.

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Visit WSPA-USA.ORG/LEGACY or call Michael Nuno at 646-783-2226 for more information about making WSPA NEWSgift to WSPA. a legacy

CONTENTS

WSPA NEWS SPRING 2014

IN EVERY ISSUE

4 From the Executive Director 6 Headlines 8 Making a World of Difference:

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News Flash: Our New Name Protecting Animals in the Wild Choose Cage-Free Supporter Spotlight

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WSPA USA 450 7th Avenue, 31st Floor New York, NY 10123 T: 1-800-883-9772 F: 212-564-4250 E: wspa@wspausa.org WSPA-USA.ORG Editor: Carla Pisarro Contributor: Michaela Miller Designer: Lyubava Fartushenko Unless otherwise stated, all images are the copyright of WSPA. WSPA News is published twice yearly by the World Society for the Protection of Animals. WSPA News is printed on 100% recycled paper. WSPA is a U.S. registered charity (EIN #04-2718182). © WSPA 2014.

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This time is also an exciting one for WSPA. As you’ll see on the next page, this June, we’ll be changing our name to World Animal Protection. It’s clear, it’s memorable, and we feel it cuts to the chase in describing our mission. We’re thrilled to share this news first with you, our valued supporters, and our new name actually came from a supporter’s suggestion!

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Now is the time to deliver animal protection worldwide This year has been a time of positive change, both in my own life and for WSPA. I recently fulfilled a longtime dream by adopting a dog with my family, our first. Naya, our new addition, is a rescue, and while I knew bringing her into our home would be rewarding, I could not have anticipated just how much she would enrich our lives. Every day, I experience Naya’s joy, her fears, her love, and her sweet personality — nothing is better than coming home to Naya’s exuberant greetings. Her presence in our lives has given me an even deeper understanding of animals as thinking, feeling, sentient beings. She has strengthened my resolve to deliver lasting protection for all animals, and you can read about our latest work on behalf of animals in the wild, in farming, in communities, and in disasters on the pages that follow.

In this issue, you can read stories of the change we are delivering now for animals around the world. On pages 10-11, you’ll see how your support allows us to protect a wide range of animals in the wild, from elephants in Africa to whales and dolphins in the oceans. Together, we are giving a fresh start to bears previously suffering in captivity (page 11). And we remain humbled by the tremendous response we received from supporters in the aftermath of last November’s Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines with such devastating force. When this disaster disappeared from the front pages of the news, we stayed on — on page 6, you’ll see how we are delivering ongoing aid for animals impacted by Typhoon Haiyan, and on pages 8-9, our World of Difference map shows how you are helping animals in disasters around the globe. None of these successes would have been possible without you. Together, we are moving the world to protect animals, and I thank you for taking this journey with us. Animals enhance our lives and our world so meaningfully, and we are honored to have you as a partner to deliver change that makes a real difference. Sincerely,

Anne Lieberman Executive Director, WSPA USA

WSPA Takes Part in Science of Animal Thinking and Emotion Conference This March, WSPA sponsored and participated in The Science of Animal Thinking and Emotion, a conference held in Washington, DC and hosted by the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy. The event’s speakers shared fascinating findings from the latest research on animal sentience, or animal thinking and emotion, from the sophisticated language prairie dogs use to communicate with each other to the emotional lives of dogs as revealed by MRI scanners.

WSPA team members Philip Wilson, Gemma Carder, Mark Kennedy, Anne Lieberman, Silia Smith, and Helen Proctor.

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We discussed how this growing scientific field can lead to critical policy changes that protect animals, as shown by the “Blackfish effect”— the tremendous impact the acclaimed documentary has had in raising awareness of the lives of orca whales in captivity. We look forward to sharing more exciting developments from the growing field of animal sentience with you!

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news flash: This June, WSPA will become World Animal Protection

Everything that we achieve for animals is because of you, our supporters, and so we want you to be the first to know. As of June 2014, the World Society for the Protection of Animals will have a new name: World Animal Protection.

We think our new name makes it clear what we’re here to achieve and is easy to remember — and it was a supporter’s suggestion! When we heard it, we knew it summed up everything that we strive to do together. Such a memorable name will help us be heard as we call to people everywhere to move the world to protect animals. Every day, in every country, millions of animals are suffering. And the more people who know about our work, the more animals we can reach. That’s why we need to be clear, distinct, and memorable. And that’s exactly what our new name is. Our new name will put us in a much stronger position to help animals. To change their lives for the better. To move the world to protect them. Offering protection to animals is our history and our future — and now it’s our name, too. Changing to World Animal Protection in June brings our name in line with what we’re working to achieve with your help — protecting the world’s animals. We will be in touch with more information very soon, and in the meantime, you can learn more at WSPA-USA.ORG/CHANGE

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MOBILE ACTION FOR ROMANIAN STRAY DOGS Thank you so much to our supporters for speaking out in protest of Romania’s shocking decision to authorize the mass killing of stray dogs. Under this new law, dogs can be kept in detention for 14 days in overcrowded shelters — and then cruelly killed if they’re not claimed or adopted.

Street life: One of thousands of Romanian strays.

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Your generosity is helping us protect these dogs, as we support a mobile clinic run by our Romanian partner Save the Dogs. The clinic will be hard at work promoting responsible pet ownership and neutering dogs in impoverished areas of southeast Romania, where thousands of dogs roam the streets. WSPA is working together with Save the Dogs to convince the Romanian government that this humane approach, not needless killing, is the only way to successfully control dog populations.

After last November’s destructive Typhoon Haiyan, your support has been essential not only to getting skilled help to where it’s needed most in the Philippines, but in providing the right tools for the job. Our specially prepared life-saving kits, funded by you and containing medical and veterinary supplies, have played a vital role. They have become essential equipment for local vets and veterinary students in the Philippines. These kits helped us give medical care to 10,000 animals in the province of Aklan following the typhoon. And when this immediate stage of our work was over, we gave local veterinary teams enough supplies to treat at least 2,000 more animals. You also helped us give veterinary kits and supplies to the provincial veterinary office in Antique— enough to treat 17,500 animals.

Working together: WSPA’s Dr. Juan Carlos Murillo and Dr. Pedro Francisco from the Philippines treat a dog in the Visayas using supplies from the veterinary kits.

WSPA ADVANCES TURTLE TALKS WSPA is making critical progress for turtles through our Stop Sea Turtle Farming campaign. The Cayman Islands Government is finally addressing some of our concerns about the Cayman Turtle Farm, the world’s last remaining sea turtle farm, which raises endangered green sea turtles for their meat in terrible, cramped conditions. WSPA staff recently met with the Caymanian Government directly to discuss our concerns. The Government welcomed our ideas and produced its first public statement with WSPA, announcing that the Farm’s annual turtle release program, which risks introducing diseases to wild turtles, will be postponed until more research is completed. The Caymanian Government also committed to look into ending the promotion and sale of turtle meat to tourists.

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We will continue to call on the Cayman Turtle Farm to become a true rehabilitation and release facility, one that protects the turtles in its care. For more information, visit STOPSEATURTLEFARM.ORG.

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CAGE-FREE CIVET SUPPORT FROM LEADING COFFEE RETAILERS Civet coffee, also known as Kopi Luwak, is one of the world’s most expensive beverages. Priced at up to $100 per cup, it’s made from coffee beans partially digested and then excreted by civets — small cat-like animals. As demand for the coffee has increased, wild civets are being ‘farmed’ for beans in cruel, caged conditions in Southeast Asia.

At WSPA’s urging, the iconic British retailer Harrods has committed to sourcing cage-free civet coffee, and several other major businesses around the world have committed not to sell the product until a cruelty-free replacement can be guaranteed. Two of the world’s leading coffee certifiers — the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ — are now exploring with us how to ensure the producers they certify are not involved in caged civet coffee production. Your caring action has helped us achieve meaningful results for civets.

BOLIVIAN DROUGHT INTERVENTION SAVES ALPACAS Families in Pelechuco, Bolivia rely on alpacas and llamas to survive. In normal conditions, a three-year-old alpaca produces 4-5 pounds of wool a year. But because of a severe drought and extremely low temperatures in this region, by late 2013, Pelechuco had seen the loss of more than 10,000 of its animals. WSPA is intervening with a long-term solution. We’ve delivered feed, vitamins, and mineral supplements, caring for more than 30,000 animals during this dire period. WSPA’s teams are also training community representatives to provide ongoing care. In our next phase, WSPA seeks to construct more than 46 shelters to protect Pelechuco’s animals during the harsh weather months, with the hope of extending this solution to other countries. We will keep you updated on this life-saving work.

PROVIDING GLOBAL HUMANE EDUCATION PROGRAMS To prevent animal suffering from taking place, education on the proper care and welfare of animals is crucial. Our humane education team partners with local and international organizations, including thousands of teachers at all educational levels in 23 countries. WSPA’s Concepts in Animal Welfare curriculum reaches a vast number of students: from young children in primary and secondary schools to veterinary students at universities and training institutions. In 2014, we look to expand this work even further by training over 1,000 new teachers and lobbying governments to incorporate animal welfare into education. Animal cruelty will not end until animal welfare becomes an integral part of all education systems. With your help, we can make this vision a reality. WSPA NEWS

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MAKING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE – Animals in Disasters Your generosity has supported our work helping more than one million animals and their owners affected by 14 disasters in 2013. You helped us inspire governments and communities to develop plans to protect both people and animals from future catastrophes. Here are some highlights of what you achieved…

ECUADOR GENEVA ETHIOPIA

We helped to save more than 7,000 animals, including horses, pigs, cows, chickens and dogs, from starvation and disease after floods destroyed communities in Ecuador’s Santa Ana Canton in May. With our partner Proteccion Animal Ecuador (PAE), we delivered food, medicines, and veterinary care. We also went back in August to run a Risk Reduction and Handling of Animals During Disasters course for veterinary experts, government officials and PAE.

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We proudly took your message that animals must not be overlooked in disasters to delegates at the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction conference in May. Representatives from the Aldama authority in Chihuahua State, Mexico helped us bring the principle of disaster planning to life. Chihuahua has been afflicted with lifethreatening droughts, and the government there has been working with us to safeguard animals.

We funded unique research into the plight of animals in the country’s refugee camps and their vital role in rebuilding the lives of displaced people. We hope to use this research to convince governments and humanitarian organizations to make animal housing and treatment part of refugee camp management plans.

THAILAND

We were delighted when Dr. Ong-on Prasarnphanich, our disaster management veterinary officer, received the Young Vet of the Year award from the Thai Veterinary Association in February. Dr. Prasarnphanich was celebrated for her work saving animal lives in Nepal, Vietnam, Fiji and Thailand. She was also commended for the many disaster preparation training sessions she has run throughout Asia.

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PHILIPPINES

Our rescue teams were met with tears of gratitude from people in remote communities when they arrived in the Philippines in November to help the animal victims of Typhoon Haiyan. With your support, WSPA’s teams saved more than 17,400 farm animals and pets from injuries, starvation and disease. We’re now back in the country, helping communities rebuild their lives.

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Your generosity has helped us rescue hundreds of thousands of animals affected by disasters in India. We’ve also encouraged many communities to develop disaster preparedness plans. This work was recognized last February, when all 28 Indian states signed a groundbreaking agreement to include animals in their emergency plans. This will help protect billions of Indian animals and the 800 million people who depend on them.

We co-hosted a September conference in Australia that resulted in a landmark decision. Delegates from all levels of government, the livestock industry, and animal welfare groups agreed to endorse national plans to protect animals from disasters, ensuring they will no longer be forgotten victims.

You can help WSPA to be on hand to save animals’ lives as soon as disaster strikes by donating to our Disaster Fund. Call 1-800-883-9772, option #2 Visit wspa-usa.org/disaster

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PROTECTING ELEPHANTS, PRESERVING LIVELIHOODS Tanzania’s Mikumi National Park is home to diverse wildlife, including thousands of elephants. But with the country’s fast-growing population, people are forced to move closer to wild spaces. Mikumi National Park now borders many villages and small farms, leading to conflict between people and animals. The farmers in this area can scarcely grow the crops necessary to feed their families — but their crops are irresistible to nearby elephants. Elephants often stray from the park into villages: raiding food stores, destroying harvests, and devastating the already fragile livelihoods of farmers, sometimes in the course of just one night. These encounters between people and wildlife can turn deadly. Attempting to protect their crops, farmers, sometimes with their young children, will stay awake all night to scare the elephants away. As a last, desperate resort, the farmers will hunt and kill the elephants. But these methods of crop protection aren’t just inhumane — they’re ineffective. The crops’ allure means another elephant will quickly replace the killed animal, and the conflict will continue. Elephants are highly social, sensitive and intelligent creatures. They can live up to 70 years in the same closeknit herds, and they become intensely distressed by the loss of others. The death of a mother elephant also leaves orphaned young elephants at risk of starvation. With your help, we are implementing lasting and humane solutions for both Tanzanian farmers and the inquisitive elephants that threaten their livelihoods. Working together with these communities, WSPA is providing creative, effective solutions like chili-and-beehive fences, which deter

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elephants without harming them. With their sensitive trunks, elephants despise the smell and sensation of chili peppers. Bee stings are painful for them, and the sound of buzzing beehives, together with the scent of chili, are often enough to repel these majestic animals. WSPA is training local farmers to build and maintain these fences. We’re constructing community facilities that allow for the harvest and sale of surplus products like honey. And we’re establishing emergency funds that farmers can invest in and draw on if they lose their harvest. Nicolas, a local farmer, told us that before the installation of the chili-beehive fences, elephants would ruin entire fields of his grain in a single night, leaving his family hungry. You helped Nicolas by supporting WSPA-trained beekeeping officers and chili fence monitors like Prisca (pictured). One of the first villagers trained, Prisca has since shared her skills and knowledge with Nicolas and other farmers, who are now able to safely expand their crops and even produce a surplus. And their children, no longer occupied with guarding crops from elephants, can attend school. Together, we are helping elephants and people to coexist peacefully and safely. Through your support, we will continue to protect these remarkable animals and support the communities so near them.

DID YOU KNOW? An elephant’s trunk contains about 100,000 different muscles, and it is used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things — especially a potential meal.

Just for you… some bear essentials…

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Check out these fascinating and little-known facts from WSPA’s wildlife expert Victor Watkins about our beautiful Romanian bear sanctuary, run by our partner Asociatia Milioane de Prieteni (AMP)... Keeping safe Your amazing generosity has paid for more than 12 kilometers of fencing that surrounds the sanctuary. Sadly, the cruel confinement and treatment experienced by the resident bears in the past have made their survival in the wild impossible, and so we now must keep them safe inside the forest enclosures. Getting wet There are 11 beautiful pools in the sanctuary — the bears love to play in the water. The smallest pool is around five meters wide while the largest measures more than 20 meters. Ursula, Max and Charles, with special needs like blindness and old age, have their own pools.

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Foxy friend When Woody, an injured fox, was brought to the sanctuary a couple of years ago, he was cared for by the staff, and the bears’ vet treated his wounds. Since then, Woody has become a permanent resident. Although he could easily escape from the enclosures, he has chosen to stay with the bears and enjoys the tidbits they don’t eat, says Victor. Star visitors The bears and their plight have captured the hearts of many international celebrities who have wanted to see WSPA’s work. Actor Jacqueline Bisset and singers Leona Lewis (left) and Natalie Imbruglia are just some of the stars who have visited the sanctuary. Size matters This wonderful haven for rescued bears is the largest bear sanctuary in Europe. Thank you so much for making it possible.

Every year, around the world, hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins become accidentally entangled in lost or discarded fishing gear. Some drown immediately, while others suffer painful wounds for months or even years before finally dying from infection, starvation or exhaustion. One whale rescued off the coast of California last year was found dragging a heavy 50-foot net that contained a dead sea lion, three dead sharks and countless dead fish and crabs. WSPA is providing solutions through our whale rescue training workshops. The first of these workshops, held last June in Ecuador, educated government officers and marine rescue teams on the prevalence of marine debris and provided hands-on exercises that showed trainees how to rescue entangled whales. The workshop was a great success and timely, taking place at the beginning of the humpback whale migration season. WSPA is now funding additional whale rescue workshops in 2014, with the first of these to be held in this spring in the Dominican Republic.

A juvenile Gray whale is breaching while entangled in a lobster trap line off the coast of Mexico.

For more information on WSPA’s work with animals entangled in marine debris, visit WSPA-USA.ORG/MARINEDEBRIS. WSPA NEWS

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CHOOSE CAGE-FREE Your Voice Scores a Victory for Hens 2014 has already seen a major victory for America’s hens, one we could not have achieved without your support. Following months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress finally passed its long-delayed farm bill in February, and the controversial King Amendment — which would have weakened many of the animal protection laws currently in place — was discarded from the final bill. Now states like California, which has passed laws banning conventional hen cages, won’t be undermined by other states with lower standards for animal care. Nearly 12,000 of our U.S.-based supporters wrote directly to their Senators and Representatives on behalf of farm animals, asking that the King Amendment be removed from the farm bill. This extraordinary victory happened because of you.

Your voice made all the difference. You helped maintain higher standards for animals and livestock across the United States. Thank you for standing up for farm animals! And this remains a critical time for choosing cage-free. In a closely watched lawsuit, five states are currently suing California because of its legal requirement, soon to be implemented, that all eggs sold there must come from hens with enough room to stand and extend their wings. By choosing cage-free whenever you buy eggs, you can send a powerful message to egg producers and businesses everywhere that the well-being of hens is a priority for shoppers.

DID YOU KNOW? Chickens first made their way to North and South America in 1500 A.D.!

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by the numbers . . . In just the past few months, we’ve asked our growing flock of supporters to pledge, sign, tweet, decorate, bake, joke, shop and spread the word to help give our feathered friends a better life. You answered our call:

■ Over 60,000 individuals in the U.S. and

Canada have signed a cage-free pledge, committing to purchasing only eggs that are produced without the use of cages.

■ Over 25,000 supporters are directly engaged

in our cage-free communities, sharing personal stories, spreading the word with their family and friends, and starting conversations about ending animal cruelty.

Keep spreading the word! If you haven’t already, sign and share our cage-free pledge, check out our conversation starters for encouraging others to go cage-free, and keep buying those cage-free eggs. Visit CHOOSECAGEFREE.ORG for all the information you need!

Celebrity Chef Christine Cushing Chooses cage-free eggs WSPA is thrilled to welcome Christine Cushing, a renowned chef and cookbook author, to the flock, as she recently joined our Choose Cage-Free campaign. The Food Network trailblazer and entrepreneur also released a video to encourage consumers to buy eggs only from hens raised free of cages. “When I’m cooking, I always start with the very best ingredients. And I know that raising hens in cramped cages can’t produce the best eggs,” says Chef Cushing. “Cage-free hens have space to move around, spread their wings, and be what they are—healthy, happy chickens, producing healthy, wholesome eggs. To me, it’s a clear and easy choice.” Cushing adds her voice to our campaign at an important time when consumers are seeking more transparency in how their food is produced, and demand for local, sustainable and humane food is growing. Almost all egg-laying hens in North America live in small cages on large factory farms. Each hen lives in a space about the size of one iPad. These 300 million hens can barely move, turn around or extend their wings. They’re frequently bruised, battered and stressed, which can make them more vulnerable to infections and bacteria like Salmonella. For more information on Chef Cushing’s partnership with WSPA and to view the informational Choose Cage-Free video she stars in, visit CHOOSECAGEFREE.ORG. WSPA NEWS

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WSPA SUPPORTERS SHARE THEIR INSPIRATIONS WSPA supporter Michael Wood is a legacy giver. He speaks about his longtime involvement with WSPA. Why did you start supporting WSPA? I saw on TV, circa 1969, a piece on what [WSPA USA founding director] John Walsh was about to undertake in Surinam: rescuing animals from flooding (he ultimately saved around 9,300 animals). That TV piece asked viewers to collect nylon stockings to tie together animals’ legs, to prevent self-inflicted injuries. I sent in stockings, and that led to a meeting with John. Hearing him describe the problems — and solutions — WSPA was working on got me psyched. It was exciting to find a person who was doing really effective rescue work, mostly alone. I was hooked.

What’s been your favorite WSPA campaign? My favorite is WSPA’s work on behalf of bears farmed for their bile. It makes me cringe — the worst animal abuse in the world, when you consider levels of pain and the bears’ intelligence. I also love the humane programs aimed at governments battling rabies, to stop brutal culls of dogs.

How has your history with WSPA influenced your connection to animal welfare? WSPA excelled because of its extraordinary work around the world that nobody else was doing. The organization educated me on cruelty and survival issues, and I’m grateful to be able to contribute meaningful financial assistance.

Why did you decide to include WSPA in your legacy plans? With animal cruelty abounding, I think it’s important to maximize one’s contribution. That means, in my case, adding a handy codicil to the will — enabling a level of philanthropy not possible earlier in life. Less altruistically, it’s great to know my assets are going to a classy team.

Michael’s dog, Missy

Visual effects studio Luma Pictures, whose work includes movies like Saving Mr. Banks and Iron Man 3, recently made a generous gift to WSPA. Luma tells us what inspired them. What made Luma Pictures support WSPA? Luma encourages a culture of charity and has a tradition of giving on behalf of clients and friends. We support animal groups around Los Angeles, but, seeing the impact of disasters around the world, we wanted to help animals outside our local community. WSPA has a mission that Luma believes in and a wide-reaching impact that was a perfect fit. As a business, how do you move the world to protect animals? If we could be known for anything, it would be that we harness the capability of people who are passionate about what they do and work in an environment that supports them. When we support organizations like WSPA and lend our passion to that voice, people notice. Our hope is that this moves people to act or to ask the companies they work with if they can do more to help.

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How many Luma employees have pets? The majority of our crew has pets — many of which come to our office. They’re a ray of sunshine, and Luma wouldn’t be the same without them. What made you select WSPA’s work on behalf of dogs and bears to support? The people of Luma have a lot of dogs, so that was a nobrainer. The [cruelty towards bears] was something that took us by surprise. This was an opportunity to shed light on a little-known injustice.

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