Humane Society International (HSI)

(COMPANION ANIMALS) HSI's Spay/Neuter clinics in Latin America performed surgery on over 14,000 animals. HSI's dog management and mass vaccination programs across India and the Philippines resulted in sterilizing nearly 15,000 dogs and vaccinating over 150,000 dogs. HSI's first on-the-ground spay/neuter program in Mauritius, Africa has reached 1,800 dogs. HSI permanently closed 13 dog meat farms in South Korea since 2014, and has rescued and rehomed over 1,600 dogs from these farms. Working with partners in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, rescued Korean dogs are receiving all the care and individual attention they require and made available for adoption. HSI submitted a petition to the Korean government calling for an end to the dog meat trade with over 1 million signatures. The Indonesia dog meat campaign has resulted in the Indonesian government pledging to ban the dog meat trade. HSI's Vietnam campaign led to the capital (continued from ...

(FARM ANIMALS) HSI continued to lead the global movement to end the lifelong confinement of egg-laying hens in battery cages in 2018 by working with 40 companies around the world to adopt cage-free egg procurement policies. Highlights included: Argentina's first-ever cage-free egg commitment by Havana, a major Argentinean industrial baking company and one of the largest coffee shop and baked goods chains in Latin America; Carrefour, Brazil's largest food retailer, became the country's first-ever supermarket chain to commit to only selling cage-free eggs in all its stores; Colombina, a leading Colombian food manufacturer, committed to source exclusively cage-free eggs in the making of all its products; and four new Singaporean companies announced cage-free egg commitments, including SaladStop!, a leading restaurant company with operations in eight countries around the world. (Continued from Part III, line 4c) In India, after four years of advancing HSI's petition through the legal system, the High ...

(WILDLIFE) HSI wildlife programs cover a wide range of issues from campaigning against the commercial killing of wildlife (Canadian seals, sharks, turtle, whales, rhinos, elephants, trophy hunted species) to ending trade in wildlife and wildlife parts to resolving human-wildlife conflict in a humane manner (e.g. elephants in southern Africa, badgers and rodents in the UK). The HSI wildlife department had the following program accomplishments in 2018: Hawaii stopped issuing permits to collect marine wildlife for commercial purposes; Hong Kong agreed to phase out domestic sale, import and export of ivory over three years; Taiwan agreed to ban commercial sale of elephant ivory beginning in 2020; UK's ivory ban received royal assent; Luxemburg announced stricter restrictions on ivory sales; Netherlands announced a ban on export of raw ivory; leading auction houses, Sotheby's and Bonhams' pledged to not auction rhino horns. (Continued from Part III, Line 4b) Further, HSI trained 250 wildlife ...