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Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries, where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
Cats Protection, formerly the Cats Protection League, is a UK charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming stray, unwanted or homeless cats and educating people about cats and cat welfare. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The organization was founded as the Cats Protection League by Jessey Wade and others in 1927.
The Great Ape Project is currently campaigning to have the United Nations endorse a World Declaration on Great Apes, which would extend to non-human great apes the protection of three basic interests: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
The elephants had been transported to South Africa and were being trained using a circus elephant and individuals who had come out from Malaysia to do so. The training methods used were cruel and inhumane. A guilty verdict was given in court, this was a landmark achievement for the NSPCA and wild animals in South Africa. [8]
Animal Voice South Africa, which has campaigns against gestation crates, battery cages, dog fighting, [15] runs humane education programs, and is the official representative of Compassion in World Farming in South Africa. [16] Animal Law Reform South Africa, the first dedicated animal law organisation in South Africa, aimed at improving animal ...
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All animals treated. All treatment free". [1] On its first day, the dispensary only attracted four patients. Among them was a limping donkey, and the owner was amazed by the PDSA's free services. The owner later served as a publicity agent for the clinic. He told everyone he met what the PDSA had done for him, emphasizing its free services.
As of 2013, an estimated 75% of 700 million dogs worldwide were free to roam and reproduce, resulting in overpopulation, high mortality rates and poor health. [1] The main management approach is surgical sterilization, i.e. the removal of testes or ovaries, often performed through trap-neuter-return strategies. [2]