New guidelines offer lifeline to stray dogs
New stray dog control guidelines adopted by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) ask all 174 member states to use only humane methods as a matter of urgency – good news for the estimated 400 million stray dogs worldwide.
Advice from WSPA for World Rabies Day
We are working with the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC) to raise awareness of this disease by highlighting safe travel and encouraging people to protect themselves and their animals.
WSPA takes action on World Rabies Day
Dogs suffer abuse and persecution that stems from being the main source of rabies in humans, as well as the agony of the disease itself.
Animal recovery continues in Myanmar
The WSPA DART team remains in Myanmar, delivering aid and working with the FAO and local people to improve the health of animals that survived Cyclone Nargis.
WSPA and Dubai to promote animal welfare
Dubai Municipality and the World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share expertise and technical know-how with the objective of promoting animal welfare and humane treatment of animals.
Celebrating real change for animals in 2009
With your support, WSPA and our member societies have achieved great things for animals this year.
We have a very long way to go before we achieve our vision: a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty ends.
Saving stray dogs in Sierra Leone
Mark Whitfield, a British paramedic and mechanic is heading for Sierra Leone with a mobile veterinary clinic that he renovated himself to save strays from a life of cruelty and neglect.
New book focuses attention on stray dogs in Puerto Rico and Mexico
The book features stunning black-and-white photographs of stray dogs in Puerto Rico and Mexico, and of the people who care for them.
Uganda hosts first National Animal Welfare Workshop
They sought a forum to discuss welfare issues, convinced that animal welfare is not adequately covered within the veterinary curriculum at present and not understood widely by Ugandans.
Successful pilot leads to five-year stray dog project
A WSPA-funded programme created to manage Colombo’s large stray dog population was officially launched in a participating community yesterday, to run for the next five years.
Thousands of dogs suffer China’s needless cull
This kneejerk reaction to reported human rabies cases ignores all evidence that a humane dog vaccination and public education programme is the only effective way to combat the spread of this potentially fatal disease.
Miranda Richardson visits stray dog project
This Sri Lankan NGO operates mobile clinics and runs education and awareness-raising campaigns in partnership with the local authorities in Colombo, where there are over 3,000 street dogs.
Promoting animal welfare, protecting human health
In the last 10 years, over 75% of the diseases that reached people were caused by infections from animals or animal products.
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