HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL Five Key Areas Improving Street - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL Five Key Areas •Improving Street Animal Welfare • Stopping Wildlife Abuse •Protecting Farm Animals •Ending Animal Testing •Confronting Cruelty Seven Regional Offices •United States, Canada, Latin America (Costa Rica), India, United Kingdom, Europe (Belgium), Australia •Mexico and South Africa to open by 2015 Working on wildlife programs in the Mesoamerican Region since 2004

Active wildlife programs throughout Mesoamerica: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

Office to open in 2015 Office opened in 2004

Marine Wildlife Coalitions

PH Latin America and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Sharks Listed on Appendix II of CITES CITES and fisheries authorities ‐ more than 70 representatives from 28 countries

Environmental Education

CITES Enforcement & Pathways Program

CITES Enforcement & • 606 people (law enforcement, community leaders, NGO’s, government representatives) trained on CITES enforcement Pathways Program • 1 animal handling curriculum developed • 391 people (law enforcement, community leaders, NGO’s, government representatives) trained on animal handling • 51 instructors trained to give animal handling training • 5 wildlife rescue centers received infrastructure improvement, protocol training, management plans • 2 temporary care facilities received infrastructure improvement, protocol training, management plans • 18,082,871 people reached on outreach campaigns for wildlife protection • 1,581,771 tourists reached on outreach campaigns for wildlife

Training & Community Involvement

Bring together community leaders and government representatives

Train police and Customs officials in border areas

Create animal handling training curriculum

Public Outreach Campaigns

Outreach campaigns being revised for Pathways program

Educational curriculum for schoolchildren

Innovative Ways to Fight Illegal Trafficking

Economic alternatives training for community members

Improve Wildlife Rescue Centers

Improvements for current rescue centers

Building others from the ground up

Protocol development and training for rescue center staff

Working w/ CAWEN to standardize protocols across the region

Rehabilitated animals get released into the wild