WSPA News - Spring/Summer 2014

WSPA NEWS SPRING 2014

A sweet solution for saving ELEPHANTS IN THE WILD Celebrity chef backs CHOOSE CAGE-FREE WORLD OF DIFFERENCE for animals in disasters

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CONTENTS

WSPA NEWS SPRING 2014

IN EVERY ISSUE

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

Animals in Disasters

FEATURES

5 News Flash: Our New Name 10 A sweet solution for saving

elephants in the wild

11 Une solution douce pour les éléphants

12 Celebrity chef chooses cage-free eggs

13 La Célèbre chef cuisinière choisit

les oeufs de poules en liberté

14 Get bigger and better for animals 16 Day in the life of a Collars Not

Cruelty team member

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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY The lives of animals are in our hands. Through our attitudes and actions we have the power to impact the lives of animals here and around the world like never before.

As you know, our work to protect animals starts with people. Because of your support, we have been able to move an ever wider group of people, businesses, corporations, governments and nations to protect animals. But there is still so much we can do!

We continue to grow and this is an exciting time at WSPA. As you will 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 will put us in a stronger position to help animals. The more people who understand who we are and what we do – the more animals we can reach and protect. We are thrilled to share this news with you first, our amazing supporters.

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You are already helping us to deliver world animal protection in so many ways. On pages 8 and 9 you can see a recap of what you did to save animals caught in disasters last year. On page 10 you will see how your support is providing a sweet solution to protecting wild elephant populations in Africa. On page 12 you will see how we are influencing an increasing number of Canadians to choose cage-free eggs by partnering with celebrity chef Christine Cushing. On page 16 you will see how your support is showing governments that Collars Not Cruelty is the only way to protect dogs and communities from rabies.

Together we are sharing our knowledge, skills and passion to influence people all over the world to protect animals. Your support – whether you donate, raise funds or participate in advocacy – and your lifestyle choices make you part of the solution to protect animals. Nothing would be possible without you.

I hope you enjoy this issue of WSPA News (our last one under this name) and thank you for your continued generosity and dedication to protecting animals.

Sincerely,

Josey Kitson Executive Director, WSPA Canada

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News Flash

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Our purpose, our name 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.

Every day, in every country, millions of animals are suffering. And the more people who know about our charity, the more animals we can reach. That’s why we need our name to evolve. 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.

On the opposite page of this issue of WSPA News (our last under the name of WSPA) is a letter from Josey Kitson, Canada’s Executive Director detailing more about our name change. We will be in touch again soon with more information but in the meantime you can see how we’re changing animals’ lives – and how you can keep on helping us by visiting WSPA.CA/CHANGE

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UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS FOR ANIMALS Become a fan on Facebook at wspa.ca/facebook Follow us for news and tips at wspa.ca/twitter See amazing moments caught on video at wspa.ca/youtube

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After last November’s destructive Typhoon Haiyan, your support has been essential to getting skilled help where it’s needed most and providing the right tools for the job. Our specially prepared life-saving kits, funded by you and containing medicines 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.

BIG STEP FORWARD FOR SEA TURTLES Thanks to your support we have made some important strides to improve the future for sea turtles. After two years of campaigning, the Cayman Islands Government is now publically addressing some of our concerns about the conditions on the Cayman Turtle Farm.

In a joint statement with WSPA, the government has announced the suspension of the controversial turtle-release program until 2017 — protecting wild species from disease. They have also committed to exploring ways to end the promotion of turtle meat to tourists.

These are fantastic first steps made possible by you. In the long term, we will continue to work towards our goal of transitioning the Farm to a rehabilitation and release facility.

These endangered creatures deserve a life free from cruelty and your support is making it happen!

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THANK YOU: From helping farm animals in Canada find a better life to preventing the suffering of animals and people caught in disasters to protecting our precious wildlife, your generosity has made a difference in the lives of thousands of animals. On behalf of all these animals, thank you!

MERCI: Que ce soit l’aide apporté aux animaux de fermes au Canada, prévenir la souffrance des animaux et des personnes pris dans un désastre naturel ou protéger la faune et la flore, votre générosité a fait une différence dans la vie de milliers d’animaux. Au nom de tous ces animaux, merci! © AMP

LIVING OUT THEIR LIVES IN FREEDOM The WSPA-funded Zarnesti sanctuary is the new home of George and Doru, the last two remaining bears rescued from the closed Onesti Zoo. Because of your support, Gheorge and Doru now have a life far from the prison-like cages they once knew.

Romanian bears have been subject to illegal capture, stolen as cubs and sold for private or commercial use.

Confined in metal cages with damp floors that can cause paw deformity and arthritis, these bears often live without shelter from harsh weather and suffer malnutrition.

But, Gheorge and Doru, along with other bears you helped rescue, are now free to live as nature intended for the first time in their lives.

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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 students 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 embrace and incorporate animal welfare education.

WSPA believes that 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.

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MAKING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE – Animals in Disasters

Your wonderful generosity has supported our work helping more than one million animals and their owners affected by 14 disasters in 2013. You also helped us inspire governments, humanitarian organizations, and communities to develop essential plans to protect both people and animals from future catastrophes. Here are some highlights of what you made possible last year…

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GENEVA ETHIOPIA

Thanks to you 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 organization Protection Animal Ecuador (PAE), we delivered food, medicines, vitamins 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 an afterthought in a disaster 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.

Although Chihuahua has been afflicted with life-threatening droughts, the government there has been working with us to safeguard affected animals and community livelihoods.

During the year, 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 of the importance of making animal housing, care and treatment part of refugee camp management plans.

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THAILAND

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

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 brought hope to distraught animal owners by saving 17,400 farm animals and pets from injuries, starvation and disease.

We are now back in the country, hard at work on your behalf helping communities and their animals rebuild their lives.

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Find out more

To read firsthand accounts of our disaster work from the dedicated people who work in the field, visit our Animals in Disasters blog at:

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For many years, 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 achieved high-level recognition last February, when all 28 Indian states signed a groundbreaking agreement to include animals in their disaster and emergency plans. This will help protect billions of Indian animals and the 800 million people who depend on them.

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

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A SWEET SOLUTION FOR SAVING WILD ELEPHANTS UNE SOLUTION DOUCE POUR LES ÉLÉPHANTS Something amazing happens when you give someone knowledge and tools: they share. In this case, it is the knowledge of how to live in harmony with elephants. See how together, we can move the world to protect animals.

Tanzania’s Mikumi National Park is home to a diverse wildlife population, including thousands of elephants. But the country’s fast-growing population is forcing people to move closer to wild spaces, placing animals and wildlife in tense proximity.

Elephants often wander into the villages and destroy the crops that farmers struggle to grow, devastating the already fragile livelihoods of farmers.

Desperate efforts to protect crops often result in injuring or worse, killing 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.

With your help, we are implementing lasting solutions for both Tanzanian farmers and the inquisitive elephants that threaten their livelihoods. Working together with these communities, WSPA is providing creative solutions like chilliand-beehive fences, which deter elephants without harming them. With their sensitive trunks, elephants despise the

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Il se passe quelque chose d’extraordinaire lorsqu’on donne aux autres des outils et la connaissance : ils les partagent.

Ici, il s’agit de la connaissance de comment vivre en harmonie avec les éléphants. Voici comment, ensemble, nous incitons le monde à protéger les animaux.

Le parc national de Mikumi, en Tanzanie, abrite une faune diversifiée qui compte des milliers d’éléphants. Or, le pays connait une forte croissance démographique qui force les habitants à emménager près des espaces sauvages, ce qui cause des tensions avec la faune locale.

Les éléphants s’aventurent souvent dans les villages, où ils détruisent rapidement les récoltes que les paysans peinent à cultiver, menaçant ainsi leurs fragiles moyens de subsistance.

Tentant désespérément de protéger leurs récoltes, les paysans finissent souvent par blesser ou même tuer ces éléphants. Leurs façons de protéger les récoltes sont non seulement inhumaines, elles sont inefficaces. Comme les éléphants sont attirés par les cultures, ceux qui meurent sont rapidement remplacés par d’autres, et le conflit perdure.

LE SAVIEZ-VOUS? La trompe de l’éléphant comporte environ 100,000 muscles différents et celle-ci lui permet de renifler, respirer, barrir, boire et saisir des objets – surtout un potentiel repas!

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smell and sensation of chilli peppers. Bee stings are painful for them, and the sound of buzzing beehives, together with the scent of chilli, are often enough to repel passing elephants.

WSPA is training local farmers to build and maintain these fences and constructing community facilities that allow for the harvest and sale of surplus products like honey.

Nicolas, a local farmer, told us that before the installation of the chilli-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 chilli fence monitors like Prisca (pictured left).

One of the first villagers trained, Prisca has since shared her skills and knowledge with Nicolas and other famers.

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.

Avec votre aide, nous tentons d’implanter des solutions durables en Tanzanie, pour les paysans autant que pour les éléphants qui menacent leur subsistance. En travaillant avec ces communautés, la WSPA propose des solutions originales et efficaces, comme les barrières constituées de piments et de ruches, qui dissuadent les éléphants sans leur faire de mal.

La WSPA entrainent les paysans locaux à ériger et à entretenir ces barrières. Nous construisons des installations communautaires pour recueillir et vendre les surplus agricoles comme le miel. Puis nous créons des fonds d’urgence, où les paysans peuvent investir et emprunter lorsqu’ils perdent leurs récoltes.

Selon Nicolas, un paysan de la région, avant l’installation des barrières de piments et de ruches, les éléphants détruisaient tous les grains de son champ en une seule nuit, laissant sa famille sans nourriture. Vous avez aidé Nicolas en appuyant les formations de la WSPA données aux responsables des barrières d’abeilles et de piments, comme Prisca (photo).

Prisca, l’une des premières à avoir été formée au village, a partagé ses connaissances avec Nicolas et les autres paysans.

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celebrity chef christine cushing chooses cage-free eggs We are thrilled to welcome Christine Cushing, a renowned chef and cookbook author, to the flock! The Food Network trailblazer and entrepreneur recently joined the Choose Cage-Free campaign sharing her insights as to why cagefree eggs are the best choice.

“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. “Cagefree 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.”

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LA CÉLÉBRE CHEF CUISINIÈRE CHRISTINE CUSHING CHOISIT LES OEUFS DE POULES EN LIBERTÉ WSPA est ravi d’annoncer que la célèbre chef cuisinière Christine Cushing se joint à notre campagne afin d’encourager les consommateurs à choisir les oeufs de poules en liberté.

La pionnière de la chaîne Food Network Canada, également auteure et entrepreneure, a aussi rendu publique une vidéo pour encourager les consommateurs à acheter les oeufs pondus par des poules qui ne sont pas confinées dans des cages. « Lorsque je cuisine, je m’assure dès le départ de choisir les meilleurs ingrédients. Je sais fort bien que le fait d’élever des poules dans des cages étroites ne produit pas les meilleurs oeufs », a déclaré Cushing. « Les poules en liberté ont l’espace nécessaire pour bouger, déployer leurs ailes et être ce qu’elles sont - des poules heureuses et en santé, qui pondent des oeufs sains et nourrissants. Pour moi, c’est un choix clair et facile. »

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by the numbers...

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The maximum number of eggs a hen can lay in a day.

Percent of a hen’s day she would naturally spend grazing and pecking.

Le nombre d’œuf qu’une poule peut pondre dans une journée.

Pourcentage du quotidien que passe la poule à s’exprimer naturellement en pâturage à picorer et à gratter le sol.

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Types of calls chickens use to communicate and distinguish threats.

The number of chickens a hen can recognize and remember.

Variétés de cris que la poule utilise pour communiquer et différencier des menaces.

Nombre d’autres poules qu’elle peut se souvenir et reconnaitre.

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Chef Cushing is also helping to spread the word about the true living conditions of hens. Almost all egg-laying hens in Canada and the US live in small cages on large factory farms. Each hen lives in a space about the size of an iPad. These 300 million hens can barely move, turn around or stretch their wings.

For more information on Chef Christine’s partnership with us, to view her Choose Cage-Free video and to see some helpful tips and recipes visit CHOOSECAGEFREE.ORG

Presque toutes les poules pondeuses du Canada et des États-Unis vivent dans de petites cages sur d’immenses fermes commerciales. La dimension d’une cage équivaut environ à la taille d’un iPad. Ces 300 millions de poules peuvent à peine bouger ou tourner, et elles sont souvent malmenées, battues ou stressées, ce qui les rend plus vulnérables aux infections et aux bactéries, comme la salmonelle.

Pour en apprendre davantage et visionner la vidéo, veuillez visiter CHOOSECAGEFREE.ORG WSPA NEWS

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WSPA laces up for animals in Vancouver and Toronto Join us Sunday, June 22nd at the Scotiabank Vancouver Marathon or on Sunday, October 19th at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon (or both!); as we walk or run to help move the world to protect animals!

Register for Vancouver today!

The first 15 participants to register using Charity Challenge PIN Code: 4VWSAPC get FREE entry.

Once you’ve registered you can create your own personalized fundraising page where

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family and friends can show their support.

Also, be sure to look out for our monthly training and fundraising tips and info on our WSPA-hosted practice runs this summer.

For questions, contact Michelle Cheung at cheung@wspa.ca Stay tuned for more on the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon taking place on October 19th!

Ryan is getting Bigger and Better for animals (pictured) have undertaken a year-long project to trade-up, bigger and better, from a Milk-Bone dog treat (graciously donated

by Wilfred) to a goal of $100,000 for animal protection.

After an eye-opening vacation, Ryan and his family knew they wanted to end animal suffering

IT ALL STARTED WITH A DOG BONE.

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around the world and they knew that giving to WSPA was the best way to make that happen.

Now it’s a Canada-wide movement to make

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amazing work by visiting

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SEN BAI A new WSPA project with the Chinese government and a local vaccination team, including Sen Bai, aims to show how vaccination is the best way to control rabies. He shares one of his days…

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I gather the materials for our rabies vaccination mission from my office at the Husbandry and Veterinarian Station of Xizhuang, where I work mainly with farm animals.

Six colleagues and I meet the local government official, Miss Wang, in the village square to set up. We anticipate a good turnout and we’re glad for her support, as she will serve as our guide in support of our Collars Not Cruelty work with the national government.

The town square is full of dogs and their owners, curious and eager to let us do our work. In just over an hour we have already vaccinated 35 dogs who are looking very cute in their red collars.

Lots more to do.

In order to reach any owners and dogs who have not made it to the square, we take our vaccinations and red collars door to door.

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We successfully vaccinate 9 more dogs after visiting 30 houses and head back to our office to write up reports and discuss tomorrow’s plan.

We aim to vaccinate another 65 dogs tomorrow. I head home through the quiet streets to my family and, of course, my beloved dogs who I know will be jumping up and down with excitement when I come through the door.

Thanks to the generosity of WSPA supporters the team was able to vaccinate nearly 200 dogs in a day’s work. Learn more about how you can help at WSPA.CA