WELCOME We are delighted to welcome you to our Global Review 2011, dedicated to our 30th anniversary and the achievements you have made possible to improve the lives of animals worldwide. Your generosity in 2011 has been responsible for some outstanding successes – notably the rescue of animals affected by terrible floods in Thailand and El Salvador and the thousands of suffering livestock saved from starvation and disease by our emergency mission during the Kenyan drought. With your help we have also saved hundreds of thousands of dogs from persecution and cruel deaths thanks to Red Collar: our new campaign dedicated to ending mass dog culls in the name of preventing rabies. Throughout the year we have also exposed the desperate plight of farm animals. In terms of the scale of their suffering and the huge numbers confined to industrial systems, they represent the worst animal welfare problem in the world. Our campaigns – Cage Free in Canada, Not in my Cuppa in the UK and the Humane Chain in Australia – have effectively raised awareness
of the horrors that farm animals face and are marshalling ever-growing public support to say ‘no’ to cruel and unacceptable practices. Ultimately, we are working to ensure that the animal agriculture of the future is both humane and sustainable. Your generosity also enabled us to continue our longstanding work to free bears from their captive misery. In 2011 we particularly focused on our fight to persuade governments in Asia to ban bear farming and our highly successful work in Pakistan to stop the cruel sport of bear baiting, two areas of work that have long resonated with our supporters. Although in the past 30 years we have covered so much ground there are still many challenges facing us, as outlined in this review. We are working hard to make WSPA as effective as possible in the changing political, social and
WSPA Board of Trustees WSPA’s UK-based Board of Trustees is largely composed of representatives from some of the world’s largest and most influential animal welfare organisations and offers guidance to all regional WSPA boards.
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President Ms Hanja Maij-Weggen, Netherlands
Dr Bjarne Clausen, Denmark
Dr Dennis Turner, Switzerland
Dr Chinny Krishna, India
Ms Sonja Van Tichelen, Belgium
Deputy President Mr Dominique Bellemare, Canada
Mr Carter Luke, USA
Ms Cecilia Vega Leon, Mexico
Ms Marcelle Meredith, South Africa
Mr Mark Watts, UK
Dr Andrew Rowan, USA
Dr Hugh Wirth, Australia