Educational event showcases mobile clinics’ work in Sri Lanka
The two mobile clinics demonstrated how they are able to deliver affordable medical care to animals in tsunami affected areas both on the east and west coasts.
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.
OIE Dog management guidlines
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.
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.
World Animal Week: Help WSPA make animal welfare a 'Piece of Cake!'
To help WSPA achieve a world where animal welfare matters, and animal cruelty ends, please join hundreds of others round the world and hold an ‘It’s A Piece of Cake!’ event.
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.
Saving strays in Sierra Leone
Mark Whitfield, a British paramedic and mechanic is supplying a Sierra Leone WSPA member society with a mobile veterinary clinic that he tirelessly renovated himself to save strays from a life of cruelty and neglect.
Hold a Pet Party to save stray dogs from cruelty
Pet Parties are an opportunity to gather your friends and family and get baking to raise money to help stray dogs around the world.
The recipe is healthy and nutritional for dogs and will keep your furry friends entertained during your Pet Party.
China Dog 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.
Celebrating real change for animals in 2009
We have a very long way to go before we achieve our vision: a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty ends.
Bethlehem donkeys in distress
WSPA will provide government officials with practical and technical assistance as animal welfare laws are implemented across the Middle East region.
Dog cull in China
The Government of the Changshou District in Chongqing rapidly brought in a law making it illegal to own a dog, and urged all dog owners to kill their dogs or hand them over to the authorities before Sunday’s deadline.