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CONTENTS
IN EVERY ISSUE
4 From the Executive Director
5 Headlines
8 Making a world o dierence
FEATURES
7 Whats on Your Plate?The Hidden Costs o Industrial
Animal Agriculture in Canada a new report rom WSPA
10 Saving lives in Bangladesh
update on the Collars NotCruelty campaign
12 A gracious bear nds aworld o peace
Editor: Elizabeth Sharpe
Contributors: Catherine Gerson, Holly Hewitt,
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ITS ABOUTMAKING CONNECTIONS
WSPA News is one o our avourite publications at WSPA its our chance to tell you, our
generous supporters, about all the great things youve accomplished or animals. In the
pages o this magazine, we get to share with you inspiring stories o hope, rescue and
dedication. Its important or us to keep you connected to the animals you have saved.
Through updates on our latest victories and tips on how you can become even more
involved, its clear that together we are making the world a better place or animals. Make
sure you also stay connected to WSPA through our online channels. Visitwww.wspa.ca
to sign up or our electronic newsletter and to join our Facebook and Twitter community.
Throughout this issue o WSPA News youll see that the utureo WSPA and animal welare is about making connections. How
we treat animals and the value we place on their welare has a
proound impact on our lives and the uture o our planet.
Some o the most striking examples o the consequences o
undermining animal welare are outlined in WSPAs new report,
Whats On Your Plate? The Hidden Costs of Industrial Animal
Agriculture in Canada(page 7). This report, the rst o its kind
in Canada, details the negative impacts o industrial animal
agriculture on animal welare, the environment, public health
and rural communities. The report also outlines how making
changes to improve the lives o arm animals and moving awayrom industrial arming will protect our planet, help arming
communities and saeguard our health.
Our Collars Not Cruelty campaign is another amazing example o
how improved animal welare can also protect human lie. In parts
o the world where people still die o rabies, ear o the disease is
causing communities to brutally kill their stray dog populations,
oten thousands at a time. But, the only way to stop rabies is the
mass vaccination o dogs. Thanks to your support, WSPA now
works with communities to set up vaccination projects protecting
dogs and people alike. Read individual stories o hope on page 10.
We think WSPA News is a wonderul opportunity to refect on
everything we have done together or animals. I hope you enjoy
this issue and thank you or your generous support.
Josey Kitson
Executive Director, WSPA Canada
Throughout this issue o WSPA News we are
using QR codes so you can access even more
details about the animals you are helping to
protect through online content and videos.
What are QR codes?
QR means Quick Response code. They are printed
codes, scanned using a mobile Smartphone a
phone that allows access to the internet and
contains applications, known as apps.
Why use QR codes?
At WSPA, we want to bring you, our supporters,
closer to the animals you help by giving you
inormation quickly and easily. Scanning the QR
codes with your Smartphone will take you straight
to the WSPA website where you can watch
wonderul videos and see photos o the animals
youve helped with a ew clicks on your phone.
How to use QR codes
Open up the QR app (you will need to download
the app rst) and hold your Smartphone over
any o the QR codes printed in WSPA News. Try
scanning the QR code above to watch our 2011
achievements video. Look out or more QR codes
in WSPA News and use them to access exciting
new inormation about the animals you help.
GET CLOSERto the animalsyou help.
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Learn more or send a letter atwww.wspa.ca/curbthecrue
NO MORE BULLFIGHTSin CataloniaAt the start o 2012, the lengthy battle to ban bullghting in the
Spanish region o Catalonia nally drew to a close, as last years
prohibition ended bullghting there. The hard-ought measure
ollowed massive campaigning on a local scale by the PROU citizens
platorm, and saw 165,000 WSPA supporters sign the petition asking or
a ban. Now, WSPA is bringing the ght to Mexico and we need your help
again. Please visitwww.wspa.ca or updates and to see how you
can help.
THANK YOUFrom bears in captivity to animals struggling in the
atermath o natural disasters, our amazing donors
have truly made a dierence in the lives o thousands
o animals. You have made each and every success
possible, and on behal o all animals we give you ou
heartelt thanks.
some amazing moments are only available
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Update onCURB THE CRUELTY:Your letters are making a dierence
Since the 2010 release o our Curb the Cruelty report the
Government o Canada has made some encouraging strid
to help arm animals. In October 2010, a ew months ater
we launched the campaign, Canadas Agriculture Minister
Gerry Ritz announced a plan to more than double the ne
or those ound improperly transporting animals.
In the spring o 2011, the
Canadian Food Inspection
Agency announced it would
publish inormation about
transport violations, allowing
public access to inormation
on repeat oenders. In 2012
the Canadian Government
pledged to invest $320,000
in improving the handling antransporting o arm animals
through more driver training
Your letters have made an
impact but arm animals stil
need your help.
WS
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FLOOD RESCUEOperation in BrazilStarving and alone in the food stricken city o Guidoval, in the
Brazilian state o Minas Gerais, a rightened little puppy nally had
some luck when he was scooped up and examined by WSPA vet
Dr Juan Carlos Murillo.
This puppy is just one o the 3,500 cats and dogs that have been rescuedrom the foods by WSPA teams. Thanks to your generosity they have
been working since early January delivering emergency ood, veterinary
care and equipment.
To stay up to date on our disaster management work in Brazil and all over
the world, visit our blog:http://animalsindisasters.typepad.com
Help make FARM ANIMALSMATTERwith PawprintYou know that good arm animal welare is important, but did you
know that it can also protect your health, the enviroment and the
livelihoods o armers?
This summer, the United Nations is holding the Earth Summit in Rio the
most signicant discussion on the uture o the planet. Through WSPAs
new Pawprint campaign, we need your help to engage with Summit
representatives and decision makers to encourage them to include
animals in their plans.Visitwww.wspa.ca/pawprint to learn more
and to join WSPAs petition.
Taking steps towards
ENDING BEARFARMING in Korea
The Korean National Assembly recently voted
through a proposal to prepare measures to
end the practice o bear arming through an
investigation o its current status. The approval
o this proposal is a sign that the Korean
government recognizes the need to end the
cruelty o bear arming.
The Korean National Assembly has made
a great beginning towards ending this cruel
practice, said Chris Gee, WSPA Wildlie
Campaign Manager, it is clear that pressure
delivered by WSPA and local partner Green
Korea United was crucial, as the Ministry o
the Environment chose to reerence a WSPA-
unded poll and our campaigning results in their
submission to the National Assembly.
GKU
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WSPA is proud to announce the release o the rst
comprehensive Canadian report that examines the
impacts o industrial animal agriculture on animalwelare, the environment, public health and rural
communities. We are using the ndings o this report
to spark policy discussions in Ottawa and help
improve the lives o arm animals across the country.
Industrial animal agriculture is bad or
animals, people and the planet
Intensive livestock operations (ILOs) jeopardize our health
through the unregulated use o antibiotics on animals that
arent even sick. Also, the abundance o manure produced
contributes to pollution on the planet and on our plates.
The environmental consequences o industrial animal
agriculture have negatively impacted the earth more
than any other single human activity. ILOs make it nearly
impossible or small arms to compete economically,
eectively destroying the quality o lie in rural areas.
Its arm animals that pay the highest price in the quest
or cheap ood unable to move, subjected to painul
mutilations and bred to produce huge amounts o meat,
milk and eggs. Farm animals are suering but with your
support, WSPA can stop this cruelty.
What can you do?
Visitwww.wspa.ca/ood or moreinormation on the report and to add yourvoice o support or our work!
Nous sommes res dannoncer la publication de la
premire enqute complte canadienne qui tudiera
les consquences de llevage industriel sur le bien-
tre animal, lenvironnement, la sant publique et les
collectivits rurales au Canada. Les conclusions tires
serviront provoquer des discussions dans un cadre
lgislati Ottawa an damliorer la vie des animaux
de la erme dans tout le pays.
Llevage industriel nuit aux animaux, aux
humains et la plante
Les exploitations dlevage intensi mettent en pril notre santpar lusage non-rglement des antibiotiques sur des animauxqui ne sont pas malades. De plus, la quantit de umier produipollue la plante et contamine notre assiette.
Plus que toute autre activit humaine, llevage industriel a eudes eets nastes sur lenvironnement. Les petits leveursne peuvent concurrencer conomiquement les exploitationsdlevage intensi, ce qui mne la dsintgration de la qualitde vie des collectivits rurales.
Mais ce sont les animaux de erme qui paient le prix ort dansla qute pour un produit moins cher. Incapables de bouger,sourants de blessures douloureuses et levs de manire ce quils produisent tellement de viande, de lait et dus,quils ne peuvent se comporter de manire naturelle, lesanimaux sont en train de sourir. Avec votre aide, la WSPApeut mettre n cette cruaut.
Que pouvez-vous aire?
Visitezwww.wspa.ca/ood pour de plusamples inormations sur lenqute et pourunir votre voix notre travail.
WSPA would like to thank Debbie Fong or her generous support o the report launch. Debbie is a vegan and
activist who supports the humane treatment o all orms o lie. In addition, WSPA would like to thank Canadians
or the Ethical Treatment o Food Animals (CETFA) or their generous support o the production o this report.
WHATS ON YOUR PLATE?The Hidden Costs o Industrial Animal Agriculture in Canada
DrOlivierBerreville
Twyla
Francois
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Making aworld o
dierenceThanks to your support, WSPA vets are
protecting dogs rom cruel culls, rescuinganimals aected by disasters, and relieving
the suering o the worlds billions o arm
animals. Since their important works is only
made possible by your gits, we thought
youd like to meet some o them
MEXICO: Melania Gamboa
Melania is our programs manager or CentralAmerica, Mexico and the Caribbean. Recentlyshe established an agreement with the As-sociation o Mexican Veterinary Schools toensure animal welare is central in the trainingthat new vets receive. Throughout 2012, shewill be working with the Pan American HealthOrganization as part o Collars Not Cruelty, toencourage rabies prevention in Latin America.
UK LONDON: David Wilkins
David Wilkins MBE is our chie veterinaryadviser. He is ormer chie veterinary ocero the RSPCA (UK) and director o Euro-
group which became one o the most infu-ential animal welare lobbying organizationsin the European Parliament. While at WSPAhe has infuenced the veterinary proessionto support a Universal Declaration on AnimalWelare and created a ormal agreementbetween WSPA and the World Organizationor Animal Health.
Maria Nelly, our developmentmanager or South America,has been an advisor to
the Pan American Councilo Veterinary Education,a member o the boardo the Pan AmericanVeterinary Council and theeditorial board o VeterinaryEducation International. Shehas worked closely withthe World Organization orAnimal Health and the Foodand Agriculture Organizationo the United Nations.
COLOMBIA:MariaNelly
Cajaio
Last year when foods and landslides devastatedcommunities in Rios mountain areas, Rosangelaand her team helped more than 3,000 animals bydistributing 14 tonnes o ood or dogs and cats and1,500 kg o ood or cattle, pigs, horses and birds.
They also vaccinated more than 500 dogs and catsto prevent the spread o disease.
BRAZIL: Rosangela Robiero
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PAKISTAN: Jan Schmidt-Burbach
Wild animals are the passion o Jan our wildlieveterinary programs manager or Asia Pacic.One o his key roles is to oversee our bearsanctuary at Balkasar which gives bears,rescued rom the horrors o baiting, a saehaven. The sanctuary, run in partnership withthe Bioresource Research Centre, has beenmade possible through your support and givesveterinary care to bears that have suered someo the worst animal cruelty imaginable.
THAILAND: Ian Dacre
When disaster strikes, Ian our disastermanagement operations manager workshard to protect animals rom harm. More than50,000 animals and their grateul owners werhelped by WSPA teams in 2011. Last year,
during the foods which devastated parts oThailand, we distributed nearly 56 tonneso ood, as well as medicines and veterinarysupplies. Around 10,000 animals were helpedin Bangkok.
Dogs are Wilsonsavourite animaland as WSPAsproject manageror companionanimals he is helpinglocal and nationalgovernments inseveral Aricannations introducerabies vaccinationprojects andhumane methods opopulation control.T
ANZANIA:WilsonJoseph
Thanks to your support o Rastos work, more than6,000 people involved in meat production in Braziland China have been trained by WSPA-dedicatedteams in how to treat animals more humanely at thetime o slaughter and how to improve the acilities thathandle them too. Rasto has also introduced a similartraining program in Vietnam and Cambodia and willbe ocussing on Indonesia in 2012.
CHINA: Rasto Kolesar
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SAVING LIVESIN BANGLADESH
A red collar for Pinko
Pinko is a year old and has recently had her
rst litter o puppies. But not so long ago sheand the rest o the villages dogs were at risk
o being poisoned and killed. Pinkos mother
was caught in a cull and ed poisoned meat
but thanks to your support, Pinkos uture is
much brighter. WSPAs vaccination program
means that Pinko and her pups will now be
sae rom culls and rabies.
For the people and dogs in the slums and villages in
Bangladeshs Coxs Bazar district, life is hard. Fear of death
by rabies is never far away and with this fear comes the
threat of cruel culls to dogs. But, WSPAs Collars Not Cruelty
campaign is bringing hope to both dogs and people alike.
Every year, more than 55,000 people around the world die rom
rabies. Twenty million dogs are also brutally killed every year and ear
o rabies is oten used as the excuse. People think it will stop rabies.
It doesnt. There is only one humane and eective solution the mass
vaccination o dogs.
Based on past successes tackling the spread o rabies through large-scale
vaccination projects in Sri Lanka and Bali, WSPA developed our Collars Not
Cruelty campaign. Working with governments and community leaders, wevaccinate the dogs and puts a red collar on them, showing the communities
that they are sae saving them rom rabies and cruel deaths.
WSPA recently completed a large-scale dog vaccination project in the
principal resort town o Coxs Bazar in Bangladesh. There, it supported the
national government in vaccinating at least 70% o the areas dog population
enough to ensure that the local dogs will be sae rom rabies. Here are just
some o the stories
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Dhaka says YES to Collars Not Cruelty
Your generous support o our Collars Not Cruelty rabies
vaccination campaign has already helped to save 20,000
dogs per year, in Bangladeshs capital Dhaka, rom cruel and
agonizing deaths.
Prompted by the success of our rabies vaccination program
in Coxs Bazar, the citys government has decided to abandon
inhumane culls as a rabies control method. For decades
tens of thousands of dogs were put to death unnecessarily
and brutally. Yet the rabies situation never improved said
Bangladesh local government secretary Abu Alam Shahid Kha
Throughout 2012, we will be using your donations to work
with the Bangladesh government to stamp out rabies throug
a nation-wide mass vaccination o dogs that will save
countless human and animal lives.
UPDATE
A new lease on life for people too
Nurul Kabir kneels down in a dusty street o Coxs Bazar and
coaxes a timid young dog towards him. Nurul scoops him up and
within minutes, the little animal is vaccinated by WSPA and given
the bright red collar and fash o non-toxic yellow paint to mark him
as ocially vaccinated against rabies.
Nuruls job hasnt always been about saving dogs rom rabies as
a ormer municipal street cleaner he was expected to poison them
in a misguided attempt to prevent the spread o that disease. We
should not have been doing such things to dogs. he says. But no
thanks to your support, Nurul is helping WSPA save thousands o
dogs instead.
Playing safe
Joysna, rom one o the shing villages in Ward Two o Coxs Baza
had her puppy Tony vaccinated. She told the WSPA team that up
to 15 people rom her community had died o rabies in the last ew
months alone.
My neighbour was bitten by a dog and only a ew days later he
died. The amily tried to get him help, but couldnt save him, she
explained. Im pleased that Tony has been vaccinated and that m
children will be able to play with him saely
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on our progress visitwww.wspa.ca/redcollar
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A GRACIOUSBEAR FINDSA WORLDOF PEACE
Thankully WSPA and our working partner in Pakistan, the Bioresource
Research Centre (BRC) are tireless in our eorts.The BRC teamworks to discover the location o uture baiting events and determine
which bears need the most urgent rescue. The members o the team develop
relationships with religious leaders, landlords and ormer bear owners, to stop
as many events as possible beore they even get started.
Happily, in October o 2011, everything ell into place, and another bear
named Milla was rescued. Her owner surrendered her so that he could learn
a new, more lucrative living through WSPAs alternative livelihoods initiative.
Milla (meaning gracious) is ve years old and had spent most o her short, harsh
lie in baiting rings. The scars on her ace and muzzle give testimony to the lie
o terror she once led. Unortunately, due to
the severity o an injury, Milla also became
blind in one eye, a condition that made it even
more dicult or her to deend hersel.
On arrival at our state-o-the-art Balkasar
sanctuary, Milla was anesthetized in the
veterinary clinic, had her wounds treated,
and her painul nose ring and chains
removed. Like most newly rescued bears,
Milla had many untreated wounds, and was
severely malnourished.
Its not easy bringing a centuries old sport like
bear baiting to an end. But bating events, where
2,000 spectators assemble to watch as a tethered
and clawless bear is set upon by fghting dogs,
must stop.
By: Holly Hewitt, WSPA Canada
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The story doesnt end here. We have
just learned that other bears have
been rescued, and we look orward to
introducing them to you as well. Visit
www.wspa.ca or the latest updates
and visitwww.wspa.ca/bearbaiting
to support our bear rescue campaign.
Ater treatment, all the new bears go
through a quarantine period. This allows
the sanctuary vets to administer ongoing
treatment as needed, and also allows
the sta to monitor improvements in the
overall condition o each bear. The bears
receive a diet that is high in nutrients and is
supplemented with additional vitamins and
minerals to make up or a lietime o neglect.
Some o the bears have diculty eating as
they have ew or no teeth, and have suered
extensive damage to their muzzles during
their ghts. Food is specially prepared or these bears so that they can eat
more easily, and gain some much needed weight.
Under the watchul eyes o Balkasars caring sta, Millas condition quickly
improved. Ater spending six weeks in quarantine, she was released into the
large enclosure with trees, lush grass and a swimming pool. According to th
reports we have received rom Balkasar, Milla has a lovely personality and hembraced her new lie, enjoys exploring the enclosure, and loves to nap in
the sun with some o her newound riends.
Thanks to you, the remaining baiting bears in Pakistan will be able to leave
the horror o the baiting rings in exchange or the lie o peace that you have
given them.
A healthy, confdent Milla takes her frst step o reedom, as she leaves
the quarantine area or the large, lush enclosure o her new home.
Milla (let) and Shama (right) enjoying a sunny day at Balkasar.
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Reward yoursel andgive toanimalsHelp animals while you shop.
Every time you use your BMO WSPA MasterCard to make a purchase,
a payment is made to WSPA rom BMO Bank o Montreal at no
additional cost to you.
With Gold BMO WSPA MasterCard, WSPA receives 0.15% o each
purchase and, with all o the non-Gold BMO WSPA Master Cards,
WSPA receives 0.25% o each purchase. This equals $0.15 and $0.25
on each $10 you spend, respectively, which adds up quickly. To date
the BMO WSPA MasterCard has generated over $240,000 to help
alleviate animal suering.
These unds help WSPA carry out lie-saving animal programs around
the world. Every time you shop a percentage o every purchase will go
to WSPA. To apply visitwww.bmo.com/wspa
When disasters strike, WSPA is there
or the animals.
Ater the devastation caused by earthquakes,
foods, and tsunamis, animals are oten theorgotten victims. They may be injured or let
to end or themselves with no ood, water or
shelter ater their owners are orced to evacuate.
Yet animals are vital to the people that depend
on them. The survival o animals is crucial to the
recovery o entire communities.
WSPAs disaster relie teams work year round
to provide animals with ood, water, shelter and
veterinary treatment ater disasters all over the
world, even those that dont make headlines.
Thats why your ongoing support is so valuable.By making a donation to our Animal Disaster Fund
you can help ensure that our disaster management
teams have the resources they need to respond
quickly and eectively. You can help by visiting
www.wspa.ca/disasters
Help animals in disasters
For the latest news and updates on our disaster
relie work, visit our blog:
www.animalsindisasters.typepad.com
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WSPA today and help stop the needless suering o animals around the world.Donate to WSPA today. Tax receipts will be issued or donations o $20 or more.
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1981 Making new beginningsThe merging o The World Federation or
the Protection o Animals (WFPA) and the
International Society or the Protection o
Animals (ISPA), in 1981 led to our beginning
as the World Society or the Protection
o Animals.
1985 Banning the bullfghtsDance with Death our frst anti-bullfghting
campaign video was launched. Since then
we have battled bullfghting around the
world more than 49 cities in Europe havebanned this cruel sport.
1990 Saving dogsSince 1990 we have supported Dr Gudush
Jalloh o the Sierra Leone Animal Welare
Society to vaccinate 56,000 dogs against
rabies, as well as sterilize and de-worm them.
1992 Caring or bearsLibearty our high profle campaign to save
the worlds bears rom cruelty was launched.
The campaign ocussed on the horrors o
bear baiting, bear dancing and the arming o
bears or their bile; it laid frm oundations orall o our work to protect bears rom harm.
1996Relieving sueringWhen the lives o thousands o animals were
at risk ater a volcanic eruption in Montserrat,
we sent disaster experts to coordinate relie
eorts. Since then our disaster response
work has continued to develop. With your
help we were able to help 330,000 animals in
11 countries last year.
2007Building a brighter utureYour generosity helped us support the
Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Sanctuary in
Borneo when it ell upon hard times.
During 2007, thousands o you were
inspired to donate by the image o little
Kesi, the orphaned orangutan.
2010Making a markWhen Indias Minister o State or Extern
Aairs Tharoor pledged his support or t
development o a Universal Declaration Animal Welare at the United Nations (U
he became the two millionth signatory to
support our Animals Matter campaign.
2011Focussing on armingAt the end o 2011, we launched our
Pawprint campaign to put the need or
kind arming frmly on the agenda at the
next UN Earth Summit in Rio in June 20
Thanks to you30 yearso making animals matterSince our ounding 30 years ago you have helped usmake an amazing dierence or animals. Here are justsome incredible highlights
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