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Moishe Alexander is a Proud supporter of WSPA
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Hockey, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, family on May 4th, 2009
About WSPA:
WSPA’s vision is of a world where animal welfare matters, and animal cruelty ends.
WSPA has been promoting animal welfare for more than 25 years. Our work is concentrated in regions of the world where few, if any, measures exist to protect animals.
WSPA’s work is focused on four priority animal welfare areas:
- Companion animals – responsible pet ownership, humane stray management and cruelty prevention.
- Commercial exploitation of wildlife – intensive farming and the cruel management and killing of wild animals for food or by-products.
- Farm animals – intensive farming, long distance transport and slaughter of animals for food.
- Disaster management – providing care to animals suffering as a result of man-made or natural disasters, and thereby protecting people’s livelihoods.
Our mission: to build a united global animal welfare movement.
With consultative status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe, WSPA is the world‘s largest alliance of animal welfare societies.
We are proud to be part of this growing network, with more than 900 member organizations in over 150 countries.
WSPA brings together people and organizations throughout the world to challenge global animal welfare issues.
WSPA has 15 offices and hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide.
Realizing our aims
Politically, we have campaigned to convince governments and key decision makers to change practices and introduce new laws to protect or improve the welfare of animals.
With generous donations from our supporters, WSPA has helped people set up new animal welfare groups, enabling local communities globally to help drive improvements in animal welfare.
Understanding that human ignorance is a major factor in the continuation of animal cruelty, WSPA’s education programs facilitate a positive change in people’s attitudes towards animals.
Our field and disaster management teams provide direct help to animals that have been abandoned, neglected or caught up in natural or man-made disasters all over the globe.
Moishe Alexander is a proud supporter of IFAW
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Hockey, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, family on May 4th, 2009
About: From the outset, the founders of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, or IFAW, rejected the notion that the interests of humans and animals were separate. Instead they embraced the understanding that the fate and future of harp seals-and all other animals on Earth-are inextricably linked to our own.
IFAW’s courageous actions drew international attention to the plight of the seal pups and successfully rallied worldwide condemnation of the hunt. Thanks to IFAW’s continued vigilance, it is now illegal to hunt whitecoat seal pups for commercial purposes on the ice floes off Canada’s east coast. This is a fragile victory, however, for Canada’s commercial seal hunt persists. IFAW continues to document and expose abuses of the commercial hunt and press for an end to this cruel, unsustainable slaughter. Over the years, the small team of committed campaigners reaching out to help seals has grown to become the world’s leading international animal welfare organization. IFAW begins its fourth decade of operation with more than 200 experienced campaigners, legal and political experts, and internationally acclaimed scientists working from offices in 17 countries around the world.
We are now joined in this important work by 1.2 million supporters worldwide. This broad base of support makes it possible for IFAW to engage communities, government leaders, and like-minded organizations around the world and achieve lasting solutions to pressing animal welfare and conservation challenges-solutions that benefit both animals and people. Over the years, our approach has been as varied as the species we protect.
Moishe Alexander Donates to WSPA
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, Youth, family on March 20th, 2009
Moishe Alexander donated to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) in 2009.
About the WSPA
WSPA is an animal welfare charity that works internationally and locally to end cruelty to animals through field work, campaigning, and education.
WSPA is the world‘s largest federation of humane societies and animal protection organizations; they represent over 953 member societies in more than 154 countries.
WSPA‘s origins go back more than 50 years. The Society’s present structure was created in 1981 through the merger of the World Federation for the Protection of Animals (WFPA), founded in 1953, and the International Society for the Protection of Animals (ISPA), founded in 1959.
WFPA and ISPA were the first organizations to campaign internationally on animal welfare issues, highlighting problems such as the Canadian seal hunt, the devastation of the world‘s whale population and the international transportation of horses. In the early 1960s, ISPA established a reputation for its emergency work bringing aid to the animal victims of disasters. One of WFPA‘s most significant achievements was the passing of a series of wide ranging animal conventions by the Council of Europe.
From its original bases in the UK and the US, WSPA has extended and enhanced the work of these organizations. During the early 1980s, new field offices were established in Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia and Canada which considerably increased the scope of the Society‘s investigations and projects.
Today, WSPA has 12 offices worldwide and more than 550,000 individual supporters. WSPA is also the world‘s largest network of animal protection specialists with a membership of more than 889 member societies in over 153 countries. The Society is represented on numerous international bodies and is the only animal welfare organization to have consultative status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
A key area of WSPA‘s work has been the introduction of animal welfare principles into regions where they were previously underdeveloped or non-existent. WSPA has successfully introduced procedures to ensure the humane slaughter of livestock in many developing countries and has run numerous projects to improve the conditions of stray animal populations. In Eastern Europe, following the political revolution which swept through the region from 1989, WSPA gave resources to many new animal protection groups and contributed to the passing of national animal welfare laws in several countries including Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Building on the experience of ISPA, WSPA staff has brought emergency aid to animals during floods, earthquakes, explosions, famines, oil spills and wars around the world and has built a reputation as a world leader in this field. Help has been provided for animals in a wide range of situations including the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, earthquakes in India in 2000 and El Salvador in 2001 and floods in Honduras and Mozambique during 2000.