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Active wildlife programs throughout Mesoamerica: Costa Rica, · Active wildlife programs throughout...
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Five Key Areas•Improving Street Animal Welfare•Stopping Wildlife Abuse•Protecting Farm Animals•Ending Animal Testing•Confronting CrueltySeven Regional Offices•United States, Canada, Latin America (Costa Rica), India, United Kingdom, Europe (Belgium), Australia•Mexico and South Africa to open by 2015Working on wildlife programs in the Mesoamerican Region since 2004
HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
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 & Pathways Program
• 606 people (law enforcement, community leaders, NGO’s,
government representatives) trained on CITES enforcement
• 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