WSPA News Summer 2012 by World Animal Protection

World Society for the Protection of Animals

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Our five year plan for animals PLUS: WSPA Christmas Catalogue

Summer 2012 | Issue 13

Editorial

Our five year plan to change the world for animals

Welcome to your summer edition of WSPA News, the magazine for WSPA supporters showing you how you are helping to protect animals around the world from cruelty and suffering. I am delighted to bring you this special edition, in which we share our five-year plan to change the world for animals. Of course, achieving our goals for animals needs the continued support of you and animal lovers like you. I hope that you feel inspired by what you read and want to be a part of making it all happen.

Making it happen  It is wonderful to know that so many people around the world and particularly in the UK share WSPA’s passionate belief that cruelty to animals and their needless suffering is wrong. Humans are the cause of so much of animals’ suffering in the world and so they must be the driving force behind the solutions too. By supporting WSPA – and by making animal-friendly lifestyle choices – you are part of the solution. I hope that we can count on your continued support over the next five years, as we tackle some of the worst causes and effects of animal suffering in the world today. Four priority programmes Our efforts will focus on four programmes of work to protect the welfare of animals in farming, animals in the wild, animals in disasters and animals in our communities. For an introduction to each of these four areas, turn to page 4 and then look out for the labels at the top of each page.

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Animal Protector wins award  I am thrilled to say that WSPA UK won Best Innovation in Fundraising at the Institute of Fundraising National Awards on Monday 2 July. The award was for Animal Protector, our network for people who make a regular gift to WSPA. If you’d like to become part of WSPA’s award-winning Animal Protector network, or if you are an Animal Protector already but haven’t logged on to your site, visit animalprotector.org.uk. Thank you for your continued support of WSPA. Together we have an amazing opportunity to change the world for animals.

Suzi Morris  Director, WSPA UK

CONTENTS 03 Collars not Cruelty 04 URGENT APPEAL: 5-year plan for animals 06 Supporting Better Dairy in Europe 08 Collars not Cruelty in the fight against rabies 10 Keeping animals in the wild 12 James Sawyer: Saving lives in disasters 14 Our vision, your legacy, their future 15 Big Bear Build news 16 Christmas Catalogue

Contact WSPA We would love to hear what you think of WSPA News. Please get in touch with us at: WSPA, 222 Grays Inn Road London, WC1X 8HB Telephone: 020 7239 0500 Fax: 020 7239 0654 Email: wspanews@wspa.org.uk www.wspa.org.uk Editor: Sarah Hemingway Designer: jkharveydesign.co.uk Printer: www.allmedia.co Unless otherwise stated all images are the copyright of WSPA. WSPA News is published by the UK office (registered charity 1081849) of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)

Animals in communities

Collars not Cruelty Here in the UK, we pride ourselves in being a nation of animal lovers and nothing proves this more than our relationship with our canine chums.

with WSPA and other WSPA supporters. You can send them by email at wspanews@wspa.org.uk or by post to: WSPA, 222 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB. (WSPA will not be able to return any photographs sent by post).

At WSPA, we are hoping that our UK supporters will show just how close dogs are to their hearts by giving generously to our Collars not Cruelty appeal to raise funds that could help save dogs lives by vaccinating them against rabies. (To give, visit donate.wspa.org.uk/safe). For those of you with a beloved canine family member, we’d love to share your photo and your story about you and your dog

We’ll feature as many photos as possible at:

Suzi’s prize-winning pooches Suzi Morris, WSPA UK Director, shares her rural home with her three children and a whole host of animals – horses, dogs, a cat and some chickens too. Here are her daughters Nadia (13) and Evie (15) with Molly (left) and Cheshire (right). Suzi is proud as punch, as this pretty pair have just won “best bitch” and “dog the judge would most like to take home” at a local fun dog show. Molly, an excitable labradoodle (a cross between a poodle and a labrador) from the Wood Green Animal Shelter is the latest addition to Suzi’s family and is bonding well with English Setter, Cheshire.

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But for now here are a few tales of WSPA staff and the dogs in their lives…

Sarah loves her Biscuit … When Sarah is not busy writing WSPA News, or sharing stories about animals helped by our Animal Protectors, she likes nothing more than going for long walks across fields with two-year old cocker spaniel Biscuit. Biscuit has a long, wavy golden coat, likes to bury slippers in the garden when no-one’s looking and is happiest when she’s sitting on the sofa (in a regal fashion as you can see) and being tickled on her tummy.

... But Mike prefers his Cookie – and a Rolo! WSPA Chief Executive, Mike Baker, always considered himself a cat person, but over five years ago, Cookie, who is a mix of many breeds, became the first Baker family dog. Cookie must have made a good impression as she was later joined by Rolo, a young golden retriever.

What are QR codes?

WSPA’s new TV ad: Collars not Cruelty If you are at home during the daytime, you might see WSPA’s new TV advert featuring the plight of dogs killed in the name of rabies. WSPA’s Collars not Cruelty advert highlights the threat of brutal anti-rabies dog culls and asks people to become an Animal Protector with WSPA by making a monthly Direct Debit to help protect animals in need. TV advertising is one of the most effective ways of encouraging the UK public to support WSPA for the first time. Unfortunately, our budget doesn’t quite stretch to prime time TV, so for those of you who are busy during the day, you can view our ad at wspa.org.uk

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 our supporters closer to the animals you help, by giving you information quickly and easily. Scanning the QR codes with your Smartphone will take you straight to the WSPA website, where you can watch wonderful videos and see photos of animals – just with a few clicks on your mobile Smartphone.

How to use QR codes

Open up the QR app (you will need to download the app first) and hold it over any of the QR codes printed in WSPA News. Try scanning the QR code above to watch videos of bears in their forest home. Look out for more QR codes in WSPA News and access exciting new information about the animals you help. WSPA NEWS | ISSUE 13

5-year plan for animals

Making animals matter:

WSPA’s five-year plan to change the world for animals For over thirty years, WSPA and our supporters have protected hundreds of thousands of animals from cruelty and suffering, securing their good welfare in law and in practice. Behind the big numbers are the stories of individual animals, each saved from harm by the generous compassion of our supporters, people like you who share our passionate belief that cruelty to animals and their needless suffering is, quite simply, wrong. Animals matter and WSPA are determined to make that statement a reality – for all animals and felt by all people.

The greatest suffering, the greatest good Over the next five years, WSPA will focus on four global programmes, each with the capacity to tackle the most significant causes and effects of animal cruelty and suffering in the world. In deciding on our animal welfare programmes, we were keen to prioritise those issues that cause the greatest suffering, either in the number of animals affected or in the intensity or duration of their suffering.

Animals matter to WSPA and to you As a supporter of WSPA, we know that animals matter to you. Simply by your own animal-friendly lifestyle choices and behaviour, you already make a positive impact. By joining forces with WSPA, you greatly increase the impact you can have in helping create a future world in which cruelty to animals has ended and animals matter to everyone. To create such lasting change for animals, WSPA needs to raise and to invest over £60 million across four programmes over the next five years. A vast sum indeed, but actually, it’s the equivalent of about £30 a year from every WSPA supporter in the world. Suddenly, what seems impossible alone seems achievable together. For the first time, WSPA News shares details of our four new global programmes that, together, will allow us to change the world for animals and in doing so, create a better world for us too.

Animals in communities collars not cruelty in the fight against rabies Around the world, millions of dogs are shot, electrocuted, poisoned or clubbed to death, their lives brutally taken in the name of rabies. Yet mass culls do not stop this killer disease. Rabies is still spread by surviving dogs and people and dogs alike still die as a result. WSPA is demanding an end to the brutal mass killing of dogs as a cruel and ineffective attempt to stop the spread of rabies. Instead, our Collars not Cruelty campaign is proving that the mass vaccination of dogs against rabies is the answer to tackling this

killer disease. At a cost of £12.4 million over five years, WSPA’s Collars not Cruelty campaign aims to save the lives of around five million dogs and to convince governments in parts of the world where rabies is rife, to protect their people from rabies by protecting dogs, not killing them. Vaccinated dogs are given a red collar to show people that they carry no threat of rabies: collars not cruelty in the fight against rabies. Read more about our Collars not Cruelty campaign on pages 8 and 9.

Animals in farming taking the factory out of farming

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Industrial food production is the largest cause of animal suffering in the world, affecting 60 billion farm animals each year. An almost inconceivable statistic, these figures hide the daily trauma suffered by each and every chicken, pig and cow farmed in factory systems. Pushed beyond their biological limits to produce as much milk, meat or eggs as possible, their suffering is too high a price to pay for the food we eat. By investing over £20 million over the next five years, WSPA will expose and challenge the suffering

inherent in global industrialised food production and convince governments, consumers and food businesses to recognise and protect the welfare of those animals that feed the world. Building on the success of WSPA’s Not in my Cuppa campaign in the UK, we are expanding our focus to protect dairy cows in Europe from the threat to their welfare posed by US-style industrial mega-diaries. Read more about our Supporting Better Dairy campaign on pages 6 and 7.

5-year plan for animals

Animals in disasters the forgotten victims Catastrophic natural disasters – earthquakes, floods, droughts and tsunamis – strike the world more than 400 times a year. Animals are the forgotten victims of these disasters. They too drown; they too risk disease from filthy water; they too die from hunger in their millions. WSPA is the leading expert in delivering relief to the animal victims of disasters – providing food, clean water, veterinary care, vaccination against disease – whatever we assess the need to be. With many of the world’s poorest

people dependent on animals, caring for the animal victims of disasters is crucial for their survival too. WSPA will work with communities, organisations and governments in disaster-prone regions to take practical steps to minimise the loss of animal life when disaster strikes. At an estimated investment of nearly £12 million over the next five years, WSPA is determined to help the forgotten victims of disasters. Read an interview with James Sawyer, who leads our disaster programme, on pages 12 and 13.

Animals in the wild protecting them from exploitation and harm Each year, tens of millions of wild animals are treated as expendable commodities by those who profit from their suffering. Snatched from the wild, forced to live in cruel captivity, killed, mutilated, abused – the disregard for their welfare is shameful. For decades, WSPA has fought against the captivity of bears. This will continue as we also expand our programme to protect wild animals by tackling wildlife crime, the rising trade

in exotic pets and the needless hunting or accidental, preventable deaths of small whales and dolphins. Over the next five years, with your help, WSPA will invest £16.5 million to protect wild animals from the cruel commoditisation that would otherwise see them killed and abused for financial gain. Read more about our programme to protect wild animals on pages 10 and 11.

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Animals in farming

Animals in farming: our campaign for happy cows In sheer numbers alone, industrial food production is by far the most significant cause of animals suffering on the planet today, affecting a staggering 60 billion farm animals each year. Securing the good welfare of farm animals around the world is a colossal challenge – as colossal as the number of animals involved – but WSPA have already made progress here in the UK and now we’re ready to take on Europe.

Thousands of dairy cows saved from life in a factory In 2010, a planning application was submitted for a US-style industrial mega-dairy in Lincolnshire. The proposal was for over 8,000 cows (80 times more than the average dairy farm) to be confined in sheds and each ‘battery cow’ was to be milked three times a day – 50 per cent above what would be expected on a typical dairy farm. The animals faced a short, miserable life in a factory environment – burned out from being forced to produce huge volumes of milk and little or no chance to graze outdoors. Thousands of WSPA supporters made a rallying cry against this, saying “No!” to factory milk from battery cows when they signed up to the UK’s Not in my Cuppa campaign. Such levels of support helped WSPA to succeed in fighting off the application and plans for the mega-dairy were withdrawn in February 2011 – a great victory for farm animals, consumers and traditional dairy farmers. WSPA supporters helped put a stop to what would have been the largest factory-style dairy in the UK – a fantastic achievement for the welfare of dairy cows in the UK. 6

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Wales: a mega-dairy future? But our success in Lincolnshire was only the start of WSPA’s fight against mega-dairies, not the end. Worryingly, industrial mega-dairies remain a very real threat for dairy cows in the UK and other countries. In Powys, Wales, we are anxiously awaiting a final decision on a proposal for a farm that would house 1,000 cows permanently indoors. The planning application was conditionally approved by the local council, but is subsequently being reviewed by the Welsh Assembly following pressure by dedicated WSPA supporters and our partners.

Fact or fiction? Listeners of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers will know that a mega-dairy is being planned in the fictional village of Ambridge. We hope that sense will prevail in Ambridge as well as Powys and the threat posed by the mega-dairy – to the environment, the livelihoods of small farmers and to the health and well-being of dairy cows – does not become reality.

Grim reality: Cows in mega-dairies have no access to green fields

like this one in the USA

Animals in farming

Supporting Better Dairy across Europe European cows need your help too

By joining forces with Ben & Jerry’s, Compassion in World Farming and with the power of WSPA supporters across Europe behind us (WSPA have offices in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Holland, as well as the UK), we can really hope to achieve a positive difference for millions of cows.

Sadly, many dairy cows across Europe live a far from happy life. From studying research by the European Food Safety Authority into the European dairy industry, WSPA knows that dairy cows suffer from widespread health problems: painful illnesses such as mastitis (inflammation of cows’ udders) or lameness, infertility problems, a low life expectancy, and a poor diet. They often endure pain and injury from being kept in cramped and poorly designed housing. Many cows are not allowed to spend time grazing outdoors in fields, seriously limiting their natural behaviour and causing a range of welfare problems. (If you want to see just how much cows love being outdoors, just take a look at our video at cowdance.wspa.org.uk).

Dancing cows in London, parading cows in Brussels The Supporting Better Dairy campaign launched at the end of June with ‘cow stunts’ in Brussels and London. Dancing ‘cows’ surprised commuters in a flash mob at Kings Cross station, while over in Brussels, 27 ‘cows’ (one for each European member state) paraded in front of the European Commission after meeting with Members of the European Parliament who backed the Supporting Better Dairy campaign. Watch our dancing cow flash mob at wspa.org.uk/animalsinfarming

Our call for new rules to protect cows Most of the European Union’s 27 member states, including the UK, do not have specific laws to protect dairy cows (pigs, chickens bred for meat and laying hens are much better protected). We want to make sure the welfare of all of Europe’s cows is protected in law and in practice and they are guaranteed: • Good housing: with access to grazing and standards for indoor housing • Good feeding: a daily diet to meet the cow’s needs • Good health: ensuring cows are healthy and do not undergo pain and suffering • The opportunity to express their natural behaviour

Best hoof forward: ‘Cows’ dancing at Kings Cross station

Stay tuned… It’s an exciting time ahead and we’re going to be calling on our supporters in the UK to help over the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, you can read about our Supporting Better Dairy campaign at wspa.org.uk/animalsinfarming

Supporting Better Dairy We’re really excited to have teamed up with ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s and animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming to launch Supporting Better Dairy – our campaign to protect Europe’s 23 million dairy cows.

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WSPA, Ben & Jerry’s and Compassion in World Farming share a concern for the health and wellbeing of dairy cows. In 2003, Ben & Jerry’s launched their Caring Dairy programme to help establish sustainable dairy standards ensuring a better life for their herds. Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by a British dairy farmer who became increasingly concerned by the development of modern, intensive factory farming.

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For a quick way to find out more about our Supporting Better Dairy campaign, why not scan this QR code right now? See page 3 for help with QR codes.

As part of our plan to change the world for animals, with your help we aim to take the ‘factory out of farming’ and expose the suffering endured by the 60 billion farm animals affected by industrial food production.

Read more on page 4

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Animals in communities

A day in the life of…

vet Dr Dananjaya Karunaratna

Collars not Cruelty Millions of dogs around the world are being killed in a misguided attempt to stop the killer disease of rabies.

Protective hands: vet Dr Dananjaya Karunaratna holds a pu ppy ready for vaccinatio n

Our message is simple, it doesn’t. Last month saw the launch of WSPA’s Collars not Cruelty campaign here in the UK. We are calling on governments to stop killing their dogs in the name of rabies, and start running dog vaccination programmes. We want every vaccinated dog to be fitted with a red collar to show communities they have been protected against rabies. In 2010, WSPA supporters helped fund a pioneering vaccination project in Bali, protecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of dogs from this killer disease and from the brutal and needless culls carried out in its name. Each vaccinated dog was given a red collar as visual proof that he/she was protected against this deadly disease – collars not cruelty in the fight against rabies. The Balinese Government has now adopted mass vaccination of dogs as its most effective method for controlling rabies.

Saving lives in Bangladesh The generous response to our appeal for help to protect dogs in Bali from mass culls, showed just how passionately our supporters in the UK feel about saving dogs’ lives. WSPA is now helping the Government of Bangladesh to roll out an anti-rabies vaccination and collaring programme across Bangladesh where, in just one city last year, over 20,000 dogs were poisoned to death. As proven in Bali, the answer to rabies control lies in mass vaccination of dogs, not mass killing.

It costs just £1.94 to protect a dog Over the next year we need to protect tens of thousands of dogs in Bangladesh. The only way to do this is to launch a nationwide vaccination and collaring programme – but WSPA needs your help. We urgently need donations that could help keep dogs in Bangladesh safe. It only costs £1.94 to protect a dog, such a small amount that if every supporter gave this, we would be able to help 100,000 dogs. The life of every dog is in our hands. I know that, together, we can protect these dogs. Please, help by giving a donation that could buy vaccinations and red collars today. 8

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