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The Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA has been a force in humane education since the early 1970s. In the mid-1980s PHS/SPCA the Board of Directors embarked on a substantial campaign to create policies on animal welfare, which were promulgated to enhance animal care within the county and also influenced state and national awareness of animal care.
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.
In 2019, Best Friends Animal Society and Southern Utah University began a partnership that included a new certificate program at SUU that included coursework on how to set up and run a no-kill animal shelter. [15] In 2020, NASCAR driver Alex Bowman added a Best Friends Animal Society paint scheme to his stock car to raise support for animal rescue.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty. Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, [ 4 ] the organization's mission is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States."
Humane World for Animals, formerly [3] the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Humane Society International (HSI), is a global nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scope.
The Humane Economy:How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals. New York City: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-238964-0. In The Humane Economy he describes how "capitalism at its best" is a force against animal suffering, "applying human creativity to answer the demands of a morally informed market."
FEMA - 3634 - Photograph by Leif Skoogfors taken on 07-21-2001 in West Virginia. Humane law enforcement officers (oftentimes abbreviated as "HLEOs" in some jurisdictions or HSPO, Humane Society Police Officers) are generally members of a state or local society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA) or a state or local police department and as such are generally trained and certified ...
Location of Charles County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Charles County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...