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Our shared passion and vision isdelivering real change or animalsacross the globe. The ate o animalsrests with people, so together wechampion the wellbeing o animalsas a vital solution to global challengesand move the world to make theirprotection a local priority and aninternational concern. Now morethan ever is the time to stop animalsuering, and in 2012 we progressedtowards this goal together.Thank you or being with us.

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Thanks to your generosity, rabies-driven culls

no longer pose the huge threat that they once

did to dogs in Bali and were making good

progress towards repeating this success in

Bangladesh. Our vaccination campaign has

protected hundreds o thousands o dogs

against this terrible disease and saved them

rom indiscriminate culls. This work is now a

compelling showcase through which we are

convincing more governments including

China that ending culling and turning to dog

vaccination is the only humane and eective

way to combat rabies.

You supported us as we played a key role in

putting the suering o billions o arm animalsrmly on the global agenda o the United

Nations Rio 20+ Earth Summit, showing

delegates the vital links between animal

wellbeing and caring or our planet.

We also launched two large regional

campaigns to move people and businesses

to end the intensive arming o hens in

North America and to protect dairy cows

in Europe rom lives spent indoors two

vast areas o animal suering caused by

animal connement in industrial arming

systems. Our Dutch oce achieved early

success in the latter when its proactive media

campaign secured commitment rom a major

international cheese manuacturer to use

the milk o pasture-based cows, ensuring

thousands o cows cam live more natural

lives on grass.

By the end o the year, your donations ensured

that we could directly help more than 130,000

animals let suering in the wake o disasters.

We worked with governments across the

world, including Australia, Mexico and India,

to ensure animals are no longer the orgotten

victims o emergencies. We are also leaders in

the eld o disaster preparedness: in 2012 our

expertise was recognised by the International

Federation o the Red Cross and Red

Crescent and sought by the government o

Vietnam, demonstrating a growing recognition

that the ates o disaster-struck animals and

their owners cannot be separated.

Our 2012 achievements or wild animals

include playing a key role alongside other

groups in the end o bear dancing in

India, an ambitious goal many o you have

championed with us or years. Our dedication

paid o: we worked with the government on

its new nationwide bear protection plan, a

massive step towards ensuring that Indias

bears will remain in the wild where theybelong. We also launched our Stop Sea Turtle

Farmingcampaign, which speaks out against

the arming o this endangered species.

I we are to make the greatest and most

lasting impact or animals, we cannot ght

to end their suering in isolation; the worlds

most signicant global challenges o ood

security, poverty and climate change can only

be addressed when the humane treatment

o animals is a critical part o the solution.

This is why we will be working throughout

2013 and beyond to convince governments,

businesses, organisations and individuals

o this inextricable link and earning animals

the better treatment they deserve, using the

powerul examples that your support has

helped make possible.

We look orward to sharing our progress with

you through the coming years.

Mike Baker Mark Watts

Chie Executive President

We hope you will nd thisGlobal Reviewan inspiringtribute to everything that wehave achieved together oranimals in 2012. With your helpwe are moving the world tomake powerul changes thatbenet animals and stop theirsuering across the globe.

Mark Watts

Mike Baker

WSPA/JasonAlden

WSPA/JasonAlden

WSPA Board o Trustees

Our UK-based Board o Trustees is largely composedo representatives rom some o the worlds largestand most infuential animal welare organisations and

oers guidance to all regional WSPA boards.

Mr Mark WattsPresident

Ms Hanja Maij-WeggenDeputy President

Mr Paul BaldwinMr Dominique Bellemare

Dr Bjarne ClausenDr Chinny KrishnaMr Carter LukeMrs Marcelle Meredith

Dr Andrew RowanMrs Cecilia Vega LeonDr Hugh Wirth

Mike Baker

Chie ExecutiveJohn TrampleasureDeputy CEOSteve McIvorDirector o InternationalCampaigns

Ian Cawsey

Director o Policy andExternal AairsNick StevensInternational Director o

ResourcesMargaret WestRegional Directoror Asia Pacic

Ruud Tombrock

Regional Directoror EuropeSilia SmithRegional Directoror North America

Lyndall Stein

Interim RegionalDirector or Arica andthe Middle East

Alredo BottiInterim Regional

Director orLatin America

Trusteesandsta listedatdate opublication

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togetherLiving We are building a worldwhere people understandand value the inextricablelinks between their ownwellbeing and that o theanimals in their communities.To do this we are movinggovernments and ordinarycitizens to protect the dogsthat provide companionshipand the working animals thatstrive so hard to help peoplemake ends meet. Our work or

animals supports the realmso poverty eradication andsaeguarding public health,showing we truly do livehere together.

Nirob, a community dogin Tongi Municipality,Bangladesh, receives ared collar to show she hasbeen vaccinated against

rabies, protecting herrom rabies-driven culls.

WSPA/Mahmud


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Persecution and inhumanenational and local culls arecruel acts o lie or millions odogs around the world; manyculls are uelled by our earo rabies. But by showcasinghumane and eective solutionsand activities based on soundevidence and research, weworked hard throughout 2012to convince governments andcommunities that vaccinationand education oer a saeruture or all.

Tens o thousands o dog lives have been

saved and reported rabies cases are

dropping, a rewarding result o our work to

end inhumane culling in Bangladesh. The rm

oundations o rabies control, laid through our

2011 pilot vaccination programme in Coxs

Bazar, inspired Bangladeshs government

to work with us to train local people to carry

out a mass dog vaccination project across

the northern hal o the country. This led to

the rapid vaccination o 49,000 dogs by our

dedicated teams in 2012. The government

is preparing to adopt a similar approach in

the south o the country, demonstrating the

powerul incremental ripple eect o oursuccessul and humane solutions

Thousandssaved byBangladeshvaccinations

Exciting rst as China pilotsdog vaccination

We laid the oundations to save the

lives o many thousands o dogs in an

exciting rst or us and or China: a dog

vaccination-ocused partnership with the

China Animal Disease Control Center. The

agreement, signed in 2012, paves the way

or ground-breaking humane rabies control

projects in key areas o the country that

have experienced outbreaks o this deadly

disease and subsequent distressing culling

o thousands o dogs. We look orward to a

successul pilot that will move the Chinesegovernment to adopt a humane approach

to rabies control nationwide and to end

cruel culls orever

Latin America leadsthe eld

We were delighted on World Rabies Day

in September, when our role in moving

governments and communities to adopt

humane strategies to end dog culls was

publicly supported by the Pan American

Health Organization (PAHO). As the worlds

oldest international public health agency,

PAHO has successully championed mass

dog vaccination alongside Latin American

countries or the past 30 years, protecting

millions o dogs rom cruel deaths. With

this infuential supporter behind us, we arecreating important partnerships with Latin

American governments such as Mexico,

Peru and Brazil, showcasing their mass dog

vaccination successes globally to motivate

other nations to ollow suit

Ten-year-old Sumon holdsa local puppy as it isvaccinated and sprayedwith non-toxic paint in Tongi

Municipality, Bangladesh.The paint shows this dogis no longer threatenedby nor presents thethreat o rabies.

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Banding together or donkeysin Palestine

Hundreds o hardworking donkeys in

Palestine have had their lives dramatically

changed or the better through our joint

project with the Palestine Wildlie Society.

Beatings that were once so common in the

project area are now virtually unheard o;

the donkeys sot noses are protected rom

harsh chain nosebands by colourul covers

made by our supporters; and local people

continue to be trained to become community

acilitators ambassadors and agents o

change or good donkey care.

Throughout 2012 the eight acilitators worked

closely with owners and the projects mobile

veterinary clinic to prevent donkey health

problems beore they actually start, with

spectacular results. Parasite inections, which

cause terrible sores and painul itchy skin,

were cut by a urther 40 per cent in 2012 and

incidences o pressure sores caused by ill-

tting equipment were more than halved.

Lie-threatening heat stress cases were

reduced by 38 per cent throughout the

year as local people ollowed veterinary

and acilitator advice, working out ways to

provide much-needed shade and water in the

parched landscape.

In 2013 even more donkeys and the owners

who rely on them will benet as we extend

the project to six more communities

Bali showcasesoutstanding success

Our 2011 vaccination programme in Bali

saved hundreds o thousands o dogs rom

cruel and indiscriminate slaughter on this

beautiul island. This work saw human rabies

cases drop by 35 per cent and dog rabies

cases by 76 per cent in just six months. We

work locally to infuence change globally: the

programmes outstanding success was vital

in convincing the Bangladesh government to

trial mass dog vaccination in their country.

Our science-based solution has moved

other major players to back vaccinationand oppose culling. The Bali initiative has

proved so eective that the government

o Bali and the Food and Agriculture

Organization o the United Nations (FAO)

developed a partnership in 2011 to

continue our lie-saving work. They have

vaccinated a urther 200,000 dogs, which

has the potential to save hundreds o

thousands rom cruel deaths. A vaccination

round o 250,000 dogs planned or early

2013 will keep Bali on track or the eventual

elimination o rabies rom the island.

Research we commissioned rom the

Royal Veterinary College, launched towards

the end o the year, showed that within

10 years the mass vaccination o Balis

dogs could result in overall savings o up

to $16 million (USD) as the need or post-

exposure prophylaxis and treatment or

dying people declines. This is a vast gure

or an island economy to be able to direct

to its other pressing needs

Forward ocus

We will continue to ocus on an end to

inhumane culling in 2013, protecting

dogs by working with people and

authorities in countries including:

Indonesia, where we have signed an

agreement with the Global Alliance

or Rabies Control to run a our-year

programme on the island o Nias, with

the goal o eliminating rabies in dogs

and people

the Philippines, through a three-year

programme to stamp out canine rabies

and so end rabies-driven animal

cruelty in the cities o Marikina

and Cainta

Zanzibar, where we will build on our

existing work to develop a humane

dog vaccination campaign that aims

to produce results that will move

other Arican nations to end their

culls or good.

In 2012 we laidthe oundationsto help save manythousands o dogsrom cruel deathsin China

We work with the PalestineWildlie Society to changethe way owners see andtreat their working animals.

The resulting improvementsto equine health andwellbeing are a huge reward.This armer has broughthis horse, which is ingood condition, to theprojects clinic to havea noseband tted.

Over the last our years wehave improved the lives otens o thousands o donkeys,horses and mules, andsupported entire communitiesby revolutionising the wayowners with limited resourcescare or their animals.


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We carried on working with dedicated

Pegasus ounder Zvika Tamuz during 2012,

and together we saved 135 and rehomed

126 abandoned and injured working

donkeys, horses and mules. Pegasus

is a recognised expert equine rescue

organisation in Israel; since we began to

work with Zvika in 2008 he has been able

to rescue 723 donkeys and horses rom all

over the country and give them proper care

and treatment at his purpose-built acility.

This level o achievement has inspired

high-level support: the Israeli government

calls on Zvikas expertise to investigate

cruelty cases, and Pegasus works at the

border crossings between Palestine and

Israel giving advice on donkey care. Thanks

to our project, donkeys are receiving better

care and treatment on both sides o the

border and consequently conscations by

Israeli ocials on animal welare grounds

were down by 10 per cent in 2012 an

achievement that benets both donkeys

and their owners.

We eel proudest when our help is no longer

needed and local partners like Pegasus

have the resources to carry on their vital

role independently. Throughout the year we

supported this hardworking organisation

to develop in the areas o undraising,

recruitment, administration and social

media activities, all o which will help it

along the road to sel-suciency

Planning theuture withPegasus

Shimi, one o Pegasusdedicated sta, ensuresrescued donkeys receivethe ood they need to

return to ull health.

We distributed nearly16,000 protectivenosebands to donkeyowners in Palestinein 2012, every onehandmade byour supporters

People have been inspired tochange: they are genuinely lookingater their donkeys better, withthe community acilitators as afrst point o contact or donkeycare, advice and treatment.

The enthusiasm we see is justincredible. They have regulargroup meetings and workshopsto exchange innovative ideassuch as a pool donkey system.

This means that when someonesdonkey is ill they can arrangeto use the pool donkey sotheirs has the time to rest and

recover without an impact onthe amilys livelihood.

Alistair Findlay, Middle EastProgrammes Manager, WSPA

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Tom was homeless and alone in the busy

streets o Coxs Bazar, until he adopted

a amily.

He just wandered in o the street and never

let. He was a scrawny little puppy at rst, but

we thought he was nice-natured and so were

happy to let him stay with us. Hes been with

us or about three months now, his owner,

Mitubollah, told us.

Mitubollah welcomed news o our rabies

vaccination programme in Coxs Bazar and

in the Tongi Municipality, which is part o

Bangladeshs Greater Dhaka region and

where rabies is a very real ear or local

people. He careully held Tom or his

vaccination by the vet and also or the quick

spray o yellow paint that marks this riendly

little dog as one o the 1,200 given lie-saving

vaccinations by our team that day.

I knew dog bites could make you ill and so

Im pleased my amily will be sae and Tom

wont get the disease.

Just a ew months earlier, Toms ate could

have been very dierent. Local authority

teams swept through the area leaving meat

poisoned with strychnine or the dogs to

eat. Distressed local people watched their

community dogs twitch and die in agony

as a result o these utile attempts to stamp

out rabies.

But today, our work in Bangladesh means

Tom and thousands o other dogs in both

Coxs Bazar and Tongi are sae rom both

rabies and the horrors o rabies-driven

culling. As dog bites are very oten the

cause o people catching rabies, Toms

vaccination is protecting the communitys

health too a key infuencing tool when we

encourage governments to end culling and

adopt vaccination.

Eleven-year-old Shaon rom Tongi told us:

I hated seeing the dogs being poisoned.

You could see the men who had to do it didnt

like it either, but they said it would keep us

sae I the work you are doing will protect

dogs and people, its a very good thing.

Parul is just one o tens o thousands o

young children who live in the challenging

circumstances o Coxs Bazar. She loves

the dogs and puppies that roam her crowded

streets; her amily helps to eed them despite

their obvious poverty. But until we stepped

in to vaccinate the community dogs,

Paruls amily eared this closeness with

dogs could kill her.

In Tongi, we heard the tragic story o how

Ruebel, a 10-year-old boy, contracted rabies

rom a puppy he had brought home. Several

weeks ater being bitten, he developed

extreme pain, ever and hallucinations;

he became aggressive and reused to

We helped localteams vaccinate49,000 dogs againstrabies in Bangladeshin 2012

drink water because the disease made him

unable to swallow. Two months ater the initial

bite Ruebel died an agonising death.

We are working hard with the government

and with communities to make deaths like

this a thing o the past or the people o

Bangladesh. Although it is too late or Ruebel,

children like Parul are already being protected

by Tom and the other vaccinated dogs they

love so much dog vaccination orms a

natural barrier against rabies that protects

people and animals, together

ProtectingTom

ProtectingParul


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togetherWorking We know that a world wherearm animals are treatedhumanely, in systems that donot destroy the environment orcompromise peoples wellbeingand livelihoods, is not animpossible dream. Our workocuses on moving consumers,industry and governments torecognise this, as we channelour knowledge and expertisetowards areas where we canmake lasting change. It is auture that animals and we will play a part in.

We are campaigningto achieve cage-ree

conditions or the manymillions o hens in North

America, the majority owhich suer in connementtheir whole lives through.This arm in BritishColumbia is proving it

doesnt need to be this way.

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Vital training relieves sueringat slaughter

Billions o the worlds arm animals are

treated inhumanely at the time o slaughter

and experience unimaginable ear, pain and

suering as a result. We dont accept this is

how it has to be our ar-reaching approach

is allowing us to tackle this unacceptable

situation. In 2012 we delivered animal welare

training to nearly 1,700 people in China and

Brazil (including slaughterhouse managers

and technicians), meaning that 660 million

arm animals did not experience extreme

and unnecessary suering at the end o their

lives. And or every person we train, we hope

to create an animal welare advocate who will

in turn educate others, ampliying our impact.

As well as welcoming our training initiatives,

the Brazilian government has asked or our

input into its revision o humane slaughter

legislation. We are the only non-governmental

organisation that has been asked to

contribute. And in China our team has been

working hard to ensure the adoption o the

rst humane slaughter standards by the

government. The credibility o our work

means we are perectly placed to be a

voice or animals at these crucial moments

o opportunity

United Nations marks world rstor arm animals

Our persistent, science-backed lobbying

came together with pressure rom ar-

sighted governments in June to convince

the United Nations to include animal welare

in discussions at its Earth Summit (Rio+20).

This ground-breaking decision marks the rst

time that animals and their treatment have

ever been considered in global discussions

on sustainable development at this level.

This gives us the recognition and oot in

the door that we need to ensure that arm

animal welare continues to be a core part o

international ood and arming debates.

Our campaign stressed the positive

links between good arm animal welare,

humanitarian and environmental issues and

sustainable development. It was backed by

ground-breaking research into the enormous

water consumption o industrial arming and

by case studies o successul high-welare

arms. With over 500,000 supporters

backing the Rio+20 Pawprint campaign, we

were able to show international decision

makers that people around the world both

recognise and support the role animals can

take in tackling global crises

Outdoor grazing is a vitaleature o Namibiasvibrant livestock industry.We work towards seeingthese conditions betteror animals and people replicated elsewhere.

By training nearly1,700 people in betteranimal welare we haveprotected 660 millionarm animals romunnecessary sueringat the end o their lives

A world rst in globalrecognition or arm animalwelare; millions more armanimals than ever beore beingtreated humanely; campaignsthat open eyes, hearts andminds these are just someo the tremendous milestoneswe reached or arm animalsin 2012.


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In Australia our Humane Chaincampaign

to stop live animal exports rom the country

gained great momentum during the year,

as we reached a total o nearly 180,000

people backing our petition against the

trade. In just our weeks 77,837 people had

pledged their support at The Body Shop

stores via our joint I stand up or animals

initiative, launched in July, showing the

power o strategic partnerships.

This tremendous public backing helped draw

national attention to our report:Australias live

animal exports: an economic analysis of the

live exportation of cattle from Australia.This

report, targeted at government and industry,

shows the benets that moving towards a

chilled and rozen meat trade would haveor the meat industry and the Australian

economy in general. This switch is vital to

save millions o sheep and cattle rom the

great suering and stress they endure on the

long sea journeys rom Australia to the Middle

East and Indonesia.

Campaignactions gainground orarm animalsworldwide

Cows belong on grass.These young dairy cowsin Friesland, Netherlands,are able to eat, roamand socialise on pasture,growing strong to produce

milk without cruelty.

Forward ocus

We will do even more to saeguard

the worlds arm animals and promote

kinder and more sustainable arming

in 2013, by:

developing our campaigning work to

protect the welare o arm animals

in those countries where intensive

arming is growing at the astest pace:

China, India and Brazil

producing strong evidence and case

studies to move businesses and policy

makers by proving that high-welarearming oers a viable, sustainable

uture or our ood

continuing to be involved in

international debates on ood security

and climate change and making a

strong case or international policies

on ood and arming to protect the

welare o animals.

In North America we launched the

Choose Cage-Freecampaign, which is

inspiring consumers and businesses to

commit to buying cage-ree eggs to reduce

the number o hens conned to battery

systems. Currently a massive 95 per cent

o all eggs in North America are produced

in this way.

And in Europeour new campaign

Keep Cows on Grassasked millions

o people to speak out against the

rise o industrial dairy production that

connes huge numbers o cows to

permanent indoor living. Our campaign

persuaded cheese companies in the

Netherlands to produce cheese only

rom pasture-based milk and we expectmany more to ollow their example.

In addition, our Supporting Better

Dairy coalition with Ben & Jerrys and

Compassion in World Farming has resulted

in widespread support or EU laws to

protect dairy cows

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Francisco Raael Diaz Sanchez is proud o

his arming heritage. I come rom a cattle-

raising tradition. My ather, my uncle, my

grandathers... and now my sons work with

me. My animals have supported me and

helped me make my living all o my lie,he says.

Francisco keeps 700 bee cattle on two

arms over 200 hectares in total in a

rural area just outside Monteria, a city in

northern Colombia.

This experienced cattleman told us that

this time last year he might have described

himsel as knowing just about everything

there is to know about arming. That was

until our animal welare training courses run

with the Colombian Federation o Livestock

Farmers (FEDEGAN) took him by surprise.

I ound I didnt really know about animalwelare and what it could do or productivity:

good handling, helping animals remain

calm when in contact with people, good

eeding, making sure they have shade

Beore the training, their productivity was

around 50 per cent and now it is at 85 to

90 per cent. Currently we have a champion

cow in milk yield, and I am convinced that

this is because we have used the good

animal welare practices we were shown.

Francisco is just one o 272 FEDEGAN

producers in Colombia that we have trained

since 2011, improving the treatment o

hundreds o thousands o bee and dairy

cattle and infuencing a new tradition o

animal-riendly arming as a result

The Sanchez herd numbers 700 animals,

just a raction o the 14 million cattle raised

or bee in Colombia. They represent one

o the countrys most important industries,

contributing to the rural economy and to

the ood security o the whole nation. Andunlike bee cattle in other parts o the world,

which are oten kept intensively and rarely

experience resh grass and sunlight, the

Sanchez cattle, like most in Colombia, are

kept outside on grazing land and ree to

behave naturally.

But despite such idyllic sounding benets,

until recently most Colombian cattle aced

serious welare threats, caused by rough

handling striking, kicking and use o sharp

implements to get them to move and

procedures such as branding, dehorning,

castration and ear tagging without

consideration o pain relie or control.

But all this is changing or the Sanchez

herd and many others. The animals

welare has improved signicantly since

we stepped in to provide the advice and

guidance needed or sustainable change

to take hold. Their owners attendance at

our welare training courses means they

are now handled regularly and correctly to

Thearmers

story

Theherdsstory

get them used to human contact; as a

result the cattle are much less skittish

and stressed, and saer or humans to

be around too.

In 2013 we will be improving lie urther orthe Sanchez herd and thousands o other

Colombian cattle. Our next project with

national body FEDEGAN involves developing

up-to-date science-based animal welare

indicators and related recommendations

or bee and dairy cattle care, which can

be used to help armers make immediate

improvements and measure their animals

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LearningtogetherHelping animals starts withpeople, so winning overproessionals who caninfuence owners and peersand young people with alietime o animal encountersahead o them are two crucialactivities undertaken by oureducation teams acrossthe globe.

Bangkok

Beijing

London

Busitema

New

Delhi

Hanoi

Puebla

Cartagena

VietnamOur work is about making people

understand the value o animal welarein education, enough to take it orwardthemselves. So we were delightedin July when Hanois department oeducation and training announcedthat it would introduce FCAW to everysingle junior secondary school within

the citys 29 districts by the end oJuly 2016. This is the only animalwelare education programme toever have been adopted by the city,creating the potential to touch thelives o hundreds o students andthe animals they come into contactwith every year.

ThailandTeachers are powerul infuencers intheir schools and wider communities,which is why we partnered with

Thailands Bangkok MetropolitanAuthority in 2011 to train teachers indelivering animal welare messages totheir students. In July 2012, the rst55 primary school teachers graduatedrom our training course and arenow incorporating animal welare

into their lessons. The programmehas been an outstanding success;alongside extending it to otherteachers we will also be encouragingteacher training institutes in Thailandand beyond to do the same.

IndiaOur ground-breaking education workin India achieved high recognitionin 2012. In November we wereawarded Best Outreach Programme

on Animal Welare by the infuentialFederation o Indian Animal ProtectionOrganisations. To date, 83 qualiedteachers rom South Delhi MunicipalCorporation primary schools havebeen accredited as animal welareeducators and 238 student teachers

have been trained in animal welareeducation, ensuring the FCAWmessages reach a wide youngaudience. This kind o success isvital in convincing other nations andregions to adopt animal welare as akey educational concept.

UKWe were proud to launch a uniqueand powerul multilingual onlineresource, Animal Mosaic, in July atwww.animalmosaic.org. Packed

with animal welare news, views,specialist research and links to peer-reviewed papers, it is specicallyaimed at the academic communityand includes a portal or teachersand lecturers looking or up-to-dateand inspirational animal welare

educational resources to improvetheir students learning. By helping toembed animal welare and animalsentience as a recognised science,we are paving the way or a seachange in the way academics viewand treat animals.

MexicoWorking with the right partners otenamplies our impact or animals, andthis is true in Puebla State, Mexico,

where more than 1 million reetextbooks with a strong emphasis onanimal welare are now being usedby primary school teachers. This isthanks to our new partnership with thestate government and philanthropicorganisation Fundacin Educacin

por la Experiencia, launched in August2012. Our work together also includestraining or parents and teachers onwhy animal welare is an essentialelement o a good education.

UgandaAnimals are now rmly on theeducational map in Uganda. Ourteams work has ensured animal

welare will be part o the curriculumor hundreds o students studyingat Busitema Universitys Facultyo Agriculture and Animal Science,conrming its status as a proessionalnecessity or those working withanimals. Here the students are training

to become para-veterinarians andhave great scope to improve armanimal welare as they work withowners and animals in more remoteareas o the country under theguidance o veterinary experts.

ChinaWe took a signicant step in changingthe lives o huge numbers o animalsin China this year, as the Chinese

Veterinary Medical Association agreed

to roll out our ACAW programme tostudents in all 80 o its veterinaryschools. Until recently animalwelare has not been a prerequisiteo Chinese veterinary qualications.The decision, taken in October, is animportant stage in preparing Chinas

next generation o veterinarians tosaeguard the welare o every animalthey work with.

ColombiaTwo o the worlds most prestigiousveterinary bodies the Pan AmericanCouncil o Veterinary Education

and the Pan American Federationo Veterinary Science Schools andFaculties gave their ull support toour ACAW programme in October2012. This is antastic recognition orour programme in the Americas andwill open even more doors to us as

we continue our campaign to ensureACAW is embedded in all veterinarycurricula worldwide.

Our First Concepts inAnimal Welare (FCAW)work aimed at early yearseducators and AdvancedConcepts in Animal Welare(ACAW) targeting thosein the tertiary sector areinternationally recognised andare changing animals lives.


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togetherSurviving We are there when naturaldisasters plunge animals andpeople into crisis, deliveringanimal care that saves livesand restores health. Our expertinterventions and guidanceenable people to rebuild andto protect their livelihoods,which are oten hugelydependent on their workinganimals and livestock. Ourdisaster preparedness work,recognised by an increasingnumber o governments,

protects communities andtheir treasured animalsrom uture catastrophes.

A WSPA vet assists as a

young cow is treated in CapHaitien, Haiti. This ormedpart o our work in thecountry in 2012 to provideassistance and medicationor animals aected byHurricane Sandy and

subsequent fooding.

WSPA/IsaacMartinez

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Last year we protected severalhundred thousand animalsrom a range o disastersincluding foods, droughts andvolcanic eruptions. We alsohelped countries keen to takeadvantage o our expertise indisaster preparation. Our workis demonstrating that the roleo animal welare in disasterresponse is inextricable romhumanitarian goals. In 2012this was rewarded as wedeveloped pioneeringinternational partnerships with

humanitarian aid agencies.

Flood rescue operation in Assamrestores livelihoods

We acted switly to save animals severely

aected by the fooding o Indias

Brahmaputra River in 2012. Between July and

October our work brought hope to desperate

people in north-eastern Assam who were so

earul that their livelihoods had been swept

away in the erce and dirty food water.

We provided 119.3 tonnes o rice bran

or starving cattle and pigs and quickly set

up eight veterinary health camps to treat

the terrible injuries so many animals had

experienced in the devastation. The camp

veterinarians, through vaccinations and othermedications, also protected as many as

possible against the outbreaks o disease so

common ater foods.

And when the waters subsided we returned

in September to equip local people or uture

foods. Flood resistant animal shelters, odder

storage banks, evacuation plans and the

development o household veterinary kits are

just some o the preventative measures we

helped them put into place

Turning the tide on droughtin Chihuahua

Our hardworking response teams oten

ace the irony that in some disaster situations

loss o animal lie and peoples suering

is caused by too much water and in others

by not enough; their expertise and training

means they can take on board whatever

is thrown at them.

During 2012 we started working in the

Chihuahua area o northern Mexico at a

time when there had been no rainall or two

years and crop ailure or three years running.

Cattle were dying in their thousands; their

carcasses littered the parched landscape.

To help the distraught armers save as

many animal lives as possible, we helped

the local authorities establish local emergency

committees and distributed mineral salt

blocks. Furthermore, by building dams,

improving irrigation and developing watering

holes and wells, we helped local people to

make the most o existing water supplies.

So ar around 200 grateul amilies and

2,500 livestock have beneted rom our help;

the dams will continue to help people make

the most o the available water or years

to come

We returned to Haiti ollowingTropical Storm Isaac inSeptember 2012 to providevital veterinary care. Manypeople and animals we helpedwere still recovering rom the2010 earthquake.

WSPA/IsaacMartinez

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Image let: We worked

with around 500 villagers,government agencies and

Indias National Army toconduct an emergency drillin Bihar State that helpedanimal owners better prepareor disaster.

Image above: In Chihuahua,Mexico, we worked withlocal people and authoritiesto help build dams asustainable solution to thesuering and devastationcaused by drought. While we

worked, we met immediateanimal need with mineralblocks like this one.

We convince governments that ormally

planning or animals in emergencies

is critical to protecting animal health,

peoples livelihoods and the uture o

their nations. In 2012 we specically

ocused on working with the governments

o India, Australia, Mexico and Kenya

nations that have great infuence in

their regions to encourage them to

introduce emergency response plans.

We are also developing case studies

o eective planning in Costa Rica,

Colombia, Vietnam and New Zealand,

which are keen to develop examples o

best practice. The establishment o an

animal emergency und in Costa Rica

and agreement rom the Vietnamese

government to work with us to roll out

livestock emergency guidelines andstandards are just two o our successes

in 2012

Emergencyplanning savesanimal lives

Forward ocus

Our work to protect vast numbers

o animals aected by disasters will

continue to grow and develop in 2013.

Our exciting plans include:

continuing to link with the Food

and Agriculture Organization o the

United Nations and humanitarian aid

agencies to ensure joined-up thinking

to protect animals and peoples lives

in disaster situations

developing an economic model that

shows governments and key decisionmakers how investing to protect

animals in times o disaster costs

much less than dealing with the

issues resulting rom their loss

protecting thousands o animals and

their owners in Assam rom uture

disasters through the continuation

o our disaster preparedness work.

We distributed119.3 tonnes o ricebran to owners ostarving animals infood-stricken Assam

WSPA/NikolaAnakabe


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Dalimya lives near Seujia Pathar, in Assam

State. The countryside is normally green,

lush and dotted with arm animals and the

people who care or them, peaceully going

about their everyday business. But in July the

region was devastated by foods.

When the food waters rose Dalimya was

orced to evacuate to higher ground.

Somehow she and her amily managed to

bring their several cows and Lai Bai (Red

Brother), a young bull, to saety with them.

Dalimya knew she had to act quickly the

loss o her animals would not only have

caused her great emotional distress but

also their deaths would mean she could no

longer work her elds and provide ood or

her amily.

Ater several weeks, the fooding began to

subside, but sadly Dalimyas animals were

still not sae; where the animals once grazed,the food waters had created a breeding

ground or lie-threatening diseases and

parasites. But our disaster response teams

were there to give Dalimya and her animals

the hope and the practical help they so

desperately needed. We delivered 119.3

tonnes o eed or starving animals in this

region as well as veterinary care, vaccinations

and medicines to strengthen their weakened

immune systems.

As our team met Dalimya with emergency

aid, her eyes lled with tears o relie. And in

October when we went back to the region

and ran our disaster preparation workshops,

we made sure to stop and check in on her.

With your help, Lai Bai and my cows had

enough to eat this helped them and my

whole amily. Thank you so much,

she said

This young bull survived the devastating

Assam foods; he spent weeks on raised

village roads near Seujia Pathar ater his

shelter was fooded. Hundreds o others were

not so lucky. Bhigu, his owner, was hugely

relieved not to lose Bugi he is vitalto Bhigus livelihood, ploughing the

elds ready or cultivation. Both survived

catastrophe this time, but the foods let

Bhigu worried or the uture.

Ater minimising animal suering as food

waters receded in Assam, we turned our

ocus to protecting the regions animals in

the event o a uture disaster. And this is

why Bugi was approached by strangers

bearing measuring tapes and notebooks.

Gathering simple animal health inormation

by weighing and measuring animals in the

area recording their details when they are

in good health is an important part o our

disaster preparedness work. Now, i theworst happens, the villagers can use this

inormation to see how their animals are

doing in the atermath and to assess i they

are getting enough ood.

We have also worked with Bhigu to make

sure that he has planned a clear evacuation

route or Bugi and the other animals that he

cares or. And he is just one o many owners

who can now better saeguard his animals:

we ran disaster preparation workshops

or all o the villagers; helped them plot

a calendar or the year noting periods o

rainall, planting, harvests and occurrence o

diseases; and explored ways o saely storing

ood and building improved shelters.

We hope this work will help the residents

o Seujia Pathar and animals like Bigu cope

with uture disasters and, i successul, will

be adopted elsewhere in India. Our goal is

always to help break the eects o the annual

disaster cycle and ensure communities are

better prepared so their animals are sae,

says Hansen Thambi Prem, WSPA disaster

project manager

Dalimyasstory

Bugisstory

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togetherThriving Our wildlie work is led by avision: a world in which wildanimals are protected in thewild, are not used, abused,armed or sold. A world inwhich animals are valuedand protected by all. To makethis a reality, we create wide-reaching and meaningulcampaigns that shit theattitudes o governments andinspire people, convincing themto make saeguarding wildanimals wherever they are

a local and global priority.

Bears at the Zarnesti

Sanctuary watch as thegate into the nal enclosureis opened. Funded byWSPA supporters, thisspace will enable the lasto Romanias remainingcruelly-kept bears

to spend the rest otheir lives in a peaceulorest home.

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Thousands o bears experiencegreat suering and exploitationthrough bear baiting anddancing and the extractiono their bile these are someo the most extreme ormso cruelty aced by any wildanimal today. We took greatsteps orward during 2012 tobring their ordeals to an end.

A bear-baiting-ree Pakistan is getting

closer to reality, as our work with partner

the Bioresource Research Centre o

Pakistan (BRC) achieved spectacular results

during the past year.

We saved 10 more wounded and

traumatised bears rom the horrors o

the baiting ring and delivered them to the

specialist care o our Balkasar sanctuary,

run by BRC. Their ormer owners were

supported to nd dierent ways o making

a living in exchange or transerring their

bears to the sanctuary. Sadly, ater only a

short time in his new peaceul surroundings

and despite expert care, one o the rescuedbears Vidaar (Forest Warrior) died as

a result o chronic illness that developed

during his hard lie in captivity.

Bear baitingsharply declines

Bear dancing in India was a horric

entertainment that subjected thousands

o bears to capture rom the wild as cubs

and a lietime o terrible cruelty. But in 2012

we celebrated our part in ending this cruelty,

a momentous achievement or all the groups

working on this issue and or our long and

successul partnership with the Wildlie

Trust o India.

It was no easy task. Our approach to changewas that it had to be real and sustainable, so

we trained over 400 Indian ocials in anti-

poaching tactics, convinced local people that

bear dancing is cruel and destructive to the

countrys wild bear population, and persuaded

bear owners to give up their animals or

alternative ways o making a living.

Further to this, we worked with the Indian

government to develop the pioneering

National Bear Conservation and Welare

Action Plan 2012. This comprehensive

strategy, launched in November, will ensure

the uture protection o Indias bears. It is the

rst o its type to be adopted by an Asiangovernment; we want this to go global.

We will use Indias example to inspire other

governments to adopt equally strong wildlie

protection policies

To stop other bears suering like Vidaar, our

work also ocuses on infuencing people to

oppose baiting beore the bear ever reaches

the ring. In 2012, religious leaders in nearly

2,200 mosques incorporated anti-bear

baiting messages into their Friday sermons

ater being convinced by the project

team o the un-Islamic nature o this cruel

entertainment. By the end o the year our

eort meant that at least 266,167 people

had heard this message.

We also infuenced a sharp drop in planned

baiting events: 116 were planned at public

airs in 2008, compared with nine public

and 26 private events in 2012. O those, 22were stopped at planning stages ater we

supported BRC to intervene

Since 2008 we havesaved 44 bearsrom the horrorso bear baiting

Reech (let) became oneo the latest bears to nd

a home ree rom violenceat Pakistans BalkasarSanctuary. Here he meetsLeela, another bearrescued rom the horrorso bear baiting.

Final curtain or bear dancing cruelty

Forward ocusBattle or bile ban continues

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We plan to move even more people to

care or bears and nd urther evidence

to protect these amazing animals in

2013, by:

conducting a thorough investigation

into bear dancing in Pakistan

continuing our mission to eliminate

bear baiting and give rescued

bears sanctuary

building on the progress achieved

in South Korea to generate a tideo opposition against the bear bile

industry in Asia.

Our work with the International Union or

Conservation o Nature (IUCN) Congress

the worlds largest and oldest environmental

organisation paid o in September when

it issued a landmark motion identiying the

bear bile industry as a very real threat to bear

conservation.

An IUCN motion called or: countries to

close down illegal bear bile acilities; a cap

on the growth o the industry in China; and

or independent scientic research and

tracking o wild bear populations to be

provided at the next Congress. This evidence

will be vital to our campaign to ban thebile trade and shut down the arms that

condemn tens o thousands o bears to

unimaginable suering.

Throughout the year we lobbied and worked

with the South Korean government, alongside

our partner Green Korea United, to prepare

a management plan to ensure the bears

currently armed or their bile are properly

cared or once the industry is nally banned.

A private members bill is expected to be

proposed in early 2013. I successul, it will

ultimately ban bear arming and dene the

care needed or the bears involved.

And in Vietnam, recent reports indicate that

our ongoing work with the government has

contributed to a reduction in the captive bear

population rom 4,500 bears in 2005 to areported 2,300 in 2012

glocal communities to breaknew ground in saeguardingthe welare o our planetsprecious wildlie. Endingcruel and unnecessary hunts,protecting wild animals incaptivity, ghting wildlie crimeand addressing the devastationcaused by marine litter were allhigh on our agenda in 2012.

We broke new ground again in 2012 by

hosting Untangled, the worlds rst ever

symposium on the impact o marine litter

on animal welare. At the event endorsed

and part-unded by the United Nations

Environment Programme we inspired

60 international experts to sign a

declaration pledging to take action to

protect the worlds marine animals rom

needless suering.

During the three-day event held in Miami in

December, specialists rom governments,

intergovernmental organisations, non-

governmental organisations, academia and

the shing and plastics industries ocused

on nding solutions to reduce the volume

o marine litter entering the oceans, removethe dangerous litter already there and

rescue the millions o animals that become

entangled in it every year. Untangled

explored a host o inventive ideas and has

laid rm oundations or our uture work

on the issue, not least by positioning us as

the organisation best able to bring together

all the key actors to protect animals rom

marine litter

Marine litter worldrst: animals inthe spotlight

We saved hundreds osea lions on the coasto Chile by mobilising100,000 supporters,local partners andpeople to speak outagainst the cull

Our symposium soughtsolutions to the terribleeects o marine litteron animals. This juvenilegray whale is entangled in

a lobster trap the ropecaught in its mouth andbaleen with no way toree itsel.

BrandonCole/naturepl.com

Investigation exposes turtlearming cruelty

Tour operators wake upto seal slaughter

Moving the worldor wildlie Forward ocus


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g y

Credible research, extensive investigations,

sound science and determined pressure rom

our supporters come together to help us

create hugely successul campaigns. Between

2011 and 2012, we investigated and exposed

the horric reality o wildlie arming at the

worlds only sea turtle arm. We uncovered

shocking evidence o cannibalism, disease,

overcrowding and genetic deects on a site in

the Cayman Islands where more than 9,500

turtles are not only handled by tourists, but

are also bred, armed and slaughtered or

their meat.

When the arm reused to act upon our

damning ndings backed by Sea Turtle

Conservancy, the worlds oldest sea turtle

research and conservation group more

than 150,000 distressed WSPA supporters

rom 150 countries were moved to call or

immediate action to improve conditions.

As a result, the Cayman Turtle Farm

announced an independent assessment o its

operation to be published in January 2013.

This document acknowledged emaciation,

severe injury and a high death rate among

young sea turtles but ailed to demonstrate

an understanding o their welare needs,

and so our work continues

g

We make powerul arguments or animals.

Oten, convincing governments and industry

that good animal welare makes good

business sense is central to our campaigns.

In 2012 we galvanised one o the worlds

largest ethical tourism industry alliances and

13 international tour operators to press the

Namibian government to stop the commercial

clubbing to death o up to 85,000 seal pups

and shooting o 6,000 adults each year

and ocus on developing seal watching as a

revenue generator instead.

Our campaign Seen and Not Hurt wasdescribed as a shock and wake-up call

by tourism operators. It revealed that once

aware o the largely secret slaughter almost

47 per cent o tourists would avoid going on

holiday to Namibia because o the hunt. We

backed this up with a powerul independent

economics report illustrating that seal hunting

accrues less than a quarter o the revenue

that seal watching industries already bring

to Namibia, and that while markets or seal

products are closing all over the world, seal

watching tourism has strong economic

growth potential

Our investigationinspired 150,000supporters toprotest the crueland unacceptableconditions at theCayman Turtle Farm

We went all-out to promote and deliver wildlie

protection in 2012. Our other lie-saving

achievements included:

stopping hundreds o sea lions being

killed by the Chilean government through

our mobilisation o 100,000 supporters,

local partners and people to successully

stop the cull; we also prevented the

governments planned capture o nearly

100 more or sale to aquaria

persuading the Brazilian government and

shing industry to work with us on a uniqueproject that will save tens o thousands

o the Amazons river dolphins rom being

cruelly and illegally slaughtered or catsh

bait, while protecting local livelihoods

running a successul project in the

Faroe Islands to assess potential or

whale watching a promising rst step

towards a uture where Faroe Islanders

could consider the economic and other

benets o watching whales, in place

o hunting them

deending wildlie rom international crime

through our continued unding o the

Metropolitan Polices Wildlie Crime Unit

in London, a major hub or the Illegal

wildlie trade

We are committed to saeguarding the

wildlie that contributes so signicantly

to our planets biodiversity and beauty.

Join us in 2013 as we:

convince the Cayman Turtle Farm

to close its breeding and arming

operations and cease to allow

tourists to handle the turtles, and

ocus instead on sea turtle rescue

and rehabilitation

launch a campaign to stop millions

o marine animals rom becomingaccidentally entangled and killed by

shing gear

continue our work in the Faroe Islands

with an aim to establish a compelling

business and tourism industry case or

watching whales, not killing them.

This Cape Cross seal puplives under the threat oa brutal death, just or itsur. Our strong economicargument against thecull has moved tourism

operators to back up ourcase as we speak to thenational government.

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Liviu Cioineag remembers eeling very

distressed as a little boy by the plight o two

caged bears, living in terrible conditions near

a restaurant by a ski resort. Liviu describes

how he saw their paws reaching out through

the rusty bars, and wanted desperately tohelp, but elt there was nothing he could do.

Years later, when working as a journalist,

he heard that the bears had been rescued

and were sae at a new sanctuary near

Zarnesti in the Carpathian Mountains.

Their new home was none other than the

Romanian bear sanctuary unded by WSPA

supporters; the bears were Christi and

Lydia, its rst residents.

Now Liviu can make the dierence he elt

powerless to enact as a child, and sees Lydia

and Christi virtually every day. In June last

year he put his journalistic career behind

him to take on what he describes as his

dream job o sanctuary manager. His keyresponsibilities are overseeing the 20 sta,

planning the release o Romanias remaining

15 or so captive bears and developing

undraising capacities. He believes including

educational activities in the sanctuarys remit

is vital in protecting his countrys wild bear

population rom harm.

We have a lot o children who want to come

to the sanctuary. We need to educate them

about the need to protect Romanias bears

in the wild and to show them that bears like

Christi, Lydia and Charles should never, ever

be kept in cages. My dream is to develop

an education centre that will inspire people

to support our lie-changing work andmake them want to protect Romanias wild

bears orever. I am so grateul to WSPA or

working with us to make this wonderul place

possible, he says

For the majority o his 40 years Charles lived

a miserable existence. Instead o spending

his days in a orest lled with trees, pools and

bird song, he was conned to a small, barren,

concrete-based cage in a ailing zoo.

But last year an organisation that was trying

to assist the ew animals let at the zoo asked

us to help Charles. We ound him in a sad

state: dea, nearly blind and barely able to

move in his cramped environment. We made

his rescue a priority. In 2012 the much-

needed third enclosure o the Romanian

Bear Sanctuary, run with partner Asociatia

Milioane de Prieteni (AMP), gave us enough

space to oer a happier lie-long home to

bears like Charles.

On his arrival at the sanctuary, AMP vets

conrmed that not only was Charles dea

and blind, he also had heart, lung, dental anddigestive problems. But despite such serious

health challenges and his great age, Charles

headed or his orest enclosures pool as

soon as he was released. As he played and

splashed in water or the rst time in his lie,

members o the rescue team were moved to

tears. He is now living peaceully next to Max,

another blind bear.

Charles story is sadly typical o the

72 Romanian bears that we have rescued

rom cruelty in captivity and given a sae

haven where they can spend the rest o

their days in peace and tranquillity. By the

close o 2013 we plan to have rescued theremaining 15 or so o Romanias illegally

held captive bears

A newchallengeor Liviu

A new lieor Charles

WSPA/Jir

Ater several years o nancial surpluses,

we made a strategic decision to use a

proportion o o r acc m lated reser es We

Our global legacy income again grew

impressively, by 27 per cent, orming 17 per

cent o our total income; the Netherlands

dairy cows and North American hens rom

connement in industrial arming systems,

as well as Stop Sea T rtle Farming

The comparative expenditure gures or

2011 shown in the accompanying table

are recalculated rom those in our 2011FinancialAt WSPA we are committed toending animal suering around


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proportion o our accumulated reserves. We

set a decit budget or 2012 to increase our

programmatic expenditure by 31 per cent and

to give added impetus to the implementation

o our strategy, launched in 2011, which aims

to achieve positive and sustainable change

or more animals. In 2012 our supporters

continued to be generous and our gross

income rose once again, but more slowly and

less consistently across geographical regions

and income streams than in recent years.

Our regular donors, the bedrock o our

income, continued to demonstrate their

commitment to our vision by increasing theircontributions by over ve per cent, although

most regions aced diculties in securing

new donors, due mainly to continuing

sluggish economic conditions. The amount

received through major gits rom individuals

and grants rom trusts and oundations was

lower than in 2011, as our income that year

was boosted by one exceptional git.

cent o our total income; the Netherlands

perormed especially strongly in this area.

This oce delivered an early success in the

Keep Cows on Grasscampaign, which used

media interest and corporate engagement to

animals best advantage. There was urther

growth in Thailand, the hub o much o our

disaster management work, which again

perormed above expectations, with a

73 per cent increase in gross income.

Investment income was positive in 2012,

ollowing losses in 2011.

Much o the increased spending has been

invested in building our capacity to achieveour objectives, particularly in our country

and regional oces. The greatest growth

areas were Animals in Farming, up by 53

per cent, Animals in the Wild, up by 61 per

cent, and Global Advocacy or Animals,

where expenditure increased by 72 per cent.

The ormer two have seen major campaign

launches in 2012: to protect European

as well as Stop Sea Turtle Farming.

These campaigns, like all our work,

were underpinned by global advocacy

expertise rom our teams specialising in

science, investigations, education and

external aairs.

Expenditure on our Animals in Communities

programme was lower; this was in part

attributable to the greater external unding

o our initiatives, demonstrating the belie

governments and others have in our

proven and sustainable solutions to

end inhumane culling.

Expenditure on Animals in Disasters was also

lower as there was no single major disaster

in 2012, but preparedness work the act

o protecting animals beore a disaster

strikes continued at a high level with the

governments o India, Australia, Mexico and

Kenya amongst others, rmly positioning us

as animal welare leaders in this eld.

are recalculated rom those in our 2011

Global Reviewto better demonstrate the

broader role o our communications work

in supporting all o our campaigns and the

variety o responsibilities undertaken by our

global leadership team.

I hope the real change and achievements

or animals captured in this review rom

the end o bear dancing in India to the

exposure o and eorts to end sea turtle

arming in the Caribbean conrm your

belie in us. Thank you or your ongoing

support as we seek to end animal

suering together.

Dr Andrew Rowan

Chair o the Finance and Audit Committee *

*in the period o reporting

Income 2012US$000

2011US$000

Appeals, gits anddonations regular

45,422 43,086

Appeals, gits and

donations single

16,454 20,322

Legacies 12,675 10,013

I nvestments and other 354 (160)

74,905 73,261

Expenditure 2012US$000

2011US$000

Animals in communities 4,426 7,078

Animals in arming 19,732 12,904

Animals in disasters 7,236 8,356

Animals in the wild 12,963 8,061

Global advocacy oranimals

13,897 8,074

Fundraising 18,720 15,177

Organisational support 2,559 2,475

79,533 62,126

0 %

61%22%

17%6%

25%

24%

3%

16%

9%17%

YTD 2012US$000

YTD 2011US$000

Surplus (4,628) 11.135

We work with communitiesin disaster-prone areasto put in place preventativemeasures that will betterprotect animal healthand human livelihoods.

This picture shows oneo around 2,000 bualoliving in Puttalund Province,Thailand, where our teamhas looked or ways tomitigate the eects orecurrent fooding.

Thegures are extractedrom WSPA globalconsolidatedaccounts which

arenon-statutory andunaudited. They areprovidedor generalinormation

purposes only. All accounts oindividualWSPA oces however are

auditedlocally.

For morenancialdetails o WSPAs globalnancialaairs, pleasecontact

WSPA International. For urther nancialinormation about individual

WSPA oces, pleasecontact therelevantoce (details on back cover)

or WSPA International.

Financialsummary

ending animal suering aroundthe globe, and our nancialactivity is a undamentalpart o achieving this. Weact responsibly and spendstrategically to ensure we aregaining the greatest changeor animals we can with theresources we have.

Your generosity is what enablesus to protect millions o animals

WSPA Australia

Daniel and Berry Almagor

Rita Andre

Laura Cull

Eden Conservation Trust

Edward Y Reid II and Lester J Bartson III

Linyi Baidal Sequeira, Misin Permanente

de Costa Rica ante la ONU

KarinaBaznThank youAs well as giving our sincerethanks, we would like to make


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pevery year. We never take yoursupport or granted. We hopethe achievements reported hereinspire you to stay with us aswe continue to work harder andsmarter or animals aroundthe world.

Rita Andre

Karen Bevilaqua

Shirley Brine

Je and Linda Brivik

Denis Brophy

Elizabeth Cartier

Je and Debbie Compton

Lisa Curran

Kit Fielder

Wayne Fitzherbert

Dr Fiorina Gabba

Gayl Harrison

Havaianas

Don Hilton

Peter and Barbara HoadleyMary Howieson

Hunter Hall

Intrepid Travel Pty Ltd

Anne Konrad

Nigel Madeley

Melinda McIver

Robyn McKeown

Victor Menson

Steve and Sharon Molver

Jane Mundy

Kath ODoherty

Anita Ortega

Mary OSullevan

John and Alice Purcell

Maria Ridsdale

Rhonda Rowland

Dr Alice Simpson

Meridy Taite

The Body ShopMarjorie Wallace

Richard Wilenski

Margaret Wilson

WSPA Canada

490824 Ontario, Inc.

Dora Ahdab

Aqueduct Foundation

Elizabeth Aszkanazy

BMO Bank o Montreal

BW Underwriting Services, Inc.

Edward Y. Reid II and Lester J. Bartson III

Canadian Foundation

Debbie Engel

Debbie Fong

Paul Frasca

Grace Hall

Graham Hallward

Betty Hasler

Jessica Holmes

Jennier Hopper

Linda Hoyle

Hullmar Realty Canada Ltd

James A. and Donna-Mae

Moore Foundation

Patricia KovalKatherine Le Butt

Thomas Liddell

Marlene Mackenzie

Sylvia Mantella

Eric Margolis

Daryl L. Merrett

Vern Militec

Margaret OHanley Duy

Bruce Palmer

Ronald A. Rhodes

Harley S. Rothstein

Isabel Schmidt

Jane Taylor

The Calgary Foundation

Matthew and Charlene Todoruk

Watermark Insurance Services

Helen Whibbs

Edith Wright

WSPA Central America, Mexico

and the Caribbean

Gloria Abraham, Ministra de Agricultura

de Costa Rica

Lic. Marta Eugenia Acosta, Contralora

de la Repblica de Costa Rica

Martha Erika Alonso de Moreno Valle

Virginie Andre, Agencia de Cooperacin

Europea-ECHO

Asociacin Panamericana de Ciencias

Veterinarias-PANVET

Karina Bazn

Xavier Castellanos, Federacin Internacional

de la Cruz Roja-IFRC

Enrique Castillo, Canciller de la Repblica

de Costa Rica

Consejo Panamericano de Educacin en las

Ciencias Veterinarias-COPEVET

Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation

Organization

Federacin Panamericana de Facultades

y Escuelas de Ciencias Veterinarias-FPFEC

Fundacin para la Adopcin, Apadrinamiento

y Deensa de los Animales-FAADA

Lic. Mario Gmez

Instituto Nacional de Ecologa de MxicoJamaica Environment Trust

Vctor Juliao, Presidente de la Comisin

de Poblacin, Ambiente y Desarrollo de la

Asamblea Legislativa de Panam

KIDO Foundation

Ricardo Mena, Ocina de la ONU para

la reduccin de riesgo, Estrategia

Internacional para la Reduccin de

Desastres de la ONU-UNISDR

Movimiento de Guas y Scouts de Costa Rica

Francisco Mungua

Alo Piva, Vicepresidente de la Repblica

de Costa Rica

Armando Prida Huerta

Programa de Restauracin de Tortugas

Marinas-PRETOMA

Erick Quirs, Director de Operaciones del

Ministerio de Agricultura de Costa Rica-MAG

Dr German Rojas, Director del ServicioNacional de Salud Animal de Costa

Rica-SENASA

Jorge Sols Santacruz

Save Our Sea Turtles-SOS Turtles

Sea Turtle Conservancy

Dr Juan de Jess Taylor y Dr Eduardo Perez

Egua, Asociacin Mexicana de Escuelas

y Facultades de Medicina Veterinaria

y Zootecnia

Cristian Horacio Teczon Vccon, Presidente

Municipal de Teocelo

yor beingpart o theWSPA amily

,a commitment to you.

Where cruelty is most severe,where cruelty is most ar-reaching,we will be there. Where we canmake the biggest dierence,we will be there. Where globalissues impact on animals,we will be there.

Our work to end damagingconficts between animalsand people ocused onelephants in Tanzaniain 2012. We introducedan innovative method tostop elephants destroying

crops and protect themrom suering the humanbacklash: strategically-placed beehives, a antasticnatural elephant deterrent!

Legacies: We would like to remember the

many people who let WSPA a git in their will

Trini Eco Warriors

Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Network-

WIDECAST

WSPA USA

Donors

Kevin Alger

Carrie Priscilla Dobson

Madge Fairax

Marjorie Halter PatrickWeir


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in 2012. Their generosity ensures that we are

able to continue our work to change the world

or animals.

We would like to thank the ollowing

celebrities or their support in 2012

Marc Abraham

Ed Begley Jr

Alice Braga

Richard Branson

Dominic Brunt

Gisele Bundchen

Chris Chapman

Mark CharnockChris Cheney

Kyly Clarke

Alesha Dixon

Hilary Du

Peter Egan

Jennier Ewbank

Ricky Gervais

Brooke Hanson

Kai Meesuk Jangmeesuk

Jay Kay

Asher Keddie

Leona Lewis

Nick Maxwell

Paul McCartney

Deborah Meaden

Tom Milsom

Minotauro e Minotouro

Irmos Nogueira

Andrew ReidLeAnn Rimes

Rodrigo e Rogrio

Por Thrisadee Sahawong

Loretta Schrijver

Tanya Streeter

Verne Troyer

Amy Williams

Liisa Winkler

WSPA Denmark

Aage V. Jensen Foundation

Fabrikant Mads Clausens Fond

Fonden a 24. december 2008

Frimodt-Heineke Fonden

Fru Ellen Bremerdals Fond til hjlp

or hjemlse katte og andre

vildtlevende dyr

Grosserer Ludvig Berlins og Frken Marie

Poulsens Fond

Toyota-Fonden

WSPA New ZealandMiranda Brookie

Barbara Henry

Judith Inkster

Dawn Parish

L. van Plat

Pukeko Trust

Dr Rob Roche

Reiko Sugiyama

Claire Valpy

Bequests

Victoria Batten

Shirley Campbell

Catherine Doull

Beryl Hopkins

Janis HunterClare Jarvest

John Wickham

Florence Wilby

WSPA South America

Pancho Cavero, Peru

Corerias, Colombia

Fundacin EPM, Colombia

Kukuli Morante, Peru

Unidad Nacional para la Gestin del

Riesgo de Desastres, Colombia

WSPA Thailand

TRUE, The Emporium

Amgen Foundation

Mary Berkebile

Debra and Leon Black

Ambreen Brown

Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation

Audrey Buyrn

Cecil B. Demille Foundation

Leslie S. Christodoulopoulos

Mary Crowe

Christine Dale

Ute Gannett

Jean Howard

June Hubbard

Inge FoundationJ.E. Fehseneld Family Foundation

Josephine Peiser Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Peggy Kavookjian

Diana and Abner Kingman

Lannan Foundation

Marguerite S. Munger

Lorraine Obereld

Sharyl Owen

Ann Richards

Sharon Rush

Gaile Russ

Segel Foundation

Frances W. Stevenson

Judi and Howard Strauss

Amanda and Andrew Street

Katie Sutphin

Adam Tarshis

The Baobab Foundation

Marlene G. TitusWilliam & Charlotte Parks Foundation

or Animal Welare

Mary and Michael Wood

Eleanora Worth

Bequests

H. Helenah Allen

Jean Boler

Sally Bordwell

Greta Bunting

Joan Callahan

Mary Hawks

Henriette Lerner-Hahn

Peggy Lieber

Marion MacLean

Ralph Natale

Nina Purdon Charitable Foundation

Bill Pauline

Josephine Rente

Eva Roberts

Charles Saunders

Lois Stevenson

Patty Swarens

Wiggins Estate

WSPA UK

We would like to thank the Wild or WSPA

Committee, particularly Astrid Harbord and

Carole Langton.

Al Fayed Charitable Foundation

Anna Rosa Forster Charitable Foundation

Bear Group S.A. Trust

Scott Beckson

Betty and Stanley Abbett Charitable Trust

Paul Dane

Paul Davis

Dischma Charitable Trust

David Innes

Investigo Ltd

Marsh Christian Trust

Marsh International Animal Welare Award

Muriel Jones Foundation

Persula Foundation

Francesca QuintRuth Smart Foundation

Les Stern

Tom and Suzanne Thomson

Tubney Charitable Trust

Usborne Foundation

In memory: Numerous donations were

made in memory o loved ones. Our heartelt

thanks go out to the riends and amilies

who honoured their cherished memories by

making a git to WSPA.

In 2012 world champion reedriver Tanya Streeter workedwith us to champion thecause o green sea turtlesarmed on her home islando Grand Cayman.

WSPA/


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Working alongside theCambodia Pony Welare

Organisation, our trainingand education workshopshave improved how peopletreat their working horsesand resulted in long-termchange to equine welarein the country.

Please join us in makinga dierence to the lives oanimals and the people thatrely on them by making agit, by inspiring others tosupport our work, or byremembering us in your will.

The generosity opeople like you is vitali we are to achieveour vision o a worldwhere animals matterand animal sueringhas ended.


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WSPA INTERNATIONAL

5th Floor

222 Grays Inn Road

London

WC1X 8HB

United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)20 7239 0500

F: +44 (0)20 7239 0654

E: [email protected]

W: www.wspa-international.org

WSPA AUSTRALIA

GPO Box 3294

Sydney

New South Wales 2001

Australia

T: +61 2 9902 8000

F: +61 2 9906 1166


W: www.wspa.org.au

WSPA BRAZILAvenida Rio Branco,

n 277, Sala 1204 Centro

Rio de Janerio

CEP:20040-009

Brazil

T: +55 21 3820 8200

F: +55 21 3820 8229


W: www.wspabrasil.org

WSPA CANADA

90 Eglinton Avenue East,

Suite 960, TorontoOntario, M4P 2Y3

Canada

T: +1 416 369 0044

F: +1 416 369 0147


W: www.wspa.ca

WSPA CENTRAL AMERICA

MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN

5th Floor, Mall Paseo de las Flores

Business Center

Heredia

Apartado Postal 516-3000

Costa Rica

T: +506 2562 1200

F: +506 2562 1225


W: www.wspa-latinoamerica.org

WSPA CHINA

501B, Dong Wai Diplomatic Building

No.23, Dongzhimen Wai Avenue

Beijing, 100600

China

T: +86 10 8532 4211

F: +86 10 8532 5211



WSPA DENMARK

Amagerto rv 29. 2.

1160 Kobenhavn K

Denmark

T: +45 33 93 7212

F: +45 33 93 7210


W: www.wspa.dk

WSPA INDIA

B-20 1st Floor

Mayair Garden, Hauz Khas Enclave

New Delhi110016

India

T: +91 11 4653 9341

F: +91 11 4653 9345



WSPA MIDDLE EAST

5th Floor

222 Grays Inn Road

London

WC1X 8HB

United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)20 7239 0500

F: +44 (0)20 7239 0654



WSPA NETHERLANDS

Louis Couperusplein 2

2514

HP Den Haag

The Netherlands

T: +31 70 314 2802

F: +31 70 314 2809


W: www.wspa.nl

WSPA NEW ZEALANDPrivate Bag 93220

Parnell

Auckland

New Zealand

T: +64 9 309 3901

F: +64 9 336 1947


W: www.wspa.org.nz

WSPA SOUTH AMERICA

Carrera 13 #29-21 O.234

Manzana 1,

Parque Central BavariaBogota

Colombia

T: +571 285 5472

F: +571 285 5748


W: www.wspa-latinoamerica.org

WSPA SWEDEN

Hantverkargatan 5 S

Stockholm

112 21

Sweden

T: +46 8 617 7970

F: +46 8 617 1850


W: www.wspa.se

WSPA THAILAND

7th Floor, Olympia Thai Plaza

444 Ratchadaphisek Road

Samsennok Huay Kwang

Bangkok 10310

Thailand

T: +66 2 513 0475

F: +66 2 513 0477


W: www.wspathailand.org

WSPA UK5th Floor

222 Grays Inn Road

London

WC1X 8HB

United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)20 7239 0500

F: +44 (0)20 7239 0654


W: www.wspa.org.uk

WSPA USA

450 Seventh Avenue

31st FloorNew York

NY 10123

USA

T: +1 646 783 2200


W: www.wspa-usa.org

Cover image: Bullet was adopted rom the streets o Greater Dhaka,Bangladesh, as a puppy. Here, owner Mohammed Shoagh holds him ater

vaccination by a WSPA-trained team. Vaccinating dogs against rabies

saves their lives both rom the disease and rom indiscriminate rabies-

driven culls. WSPA / Mahmud

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