World Animal Protection

“Pursuant to its bylaws, world animal protection's sole member is world animal protection international located in the united kingdom.”

“World animal protection's sole member is its organization located in the united kingdom. The sole member shall exercise its membership rights and obligations by appointing an authorized individual to act on its behalf. The sole member is not a director/trustee on the us world animal protection board.”

“Directors may be removed from office at any time from the sole member.”

“The form 990 was prepared by a nationally recognized accounting firm in conjunction with the organization's senior management. A copy of the draft form 990 was presented to the board of trustees for discussion and comments prior to filing with the internal revenue service. The board of directors designates authorization to file the form 990 to the finance and audit committee of the board.”

“The executive director and members of the finance department review contracts and memorandums of understanding (mous) to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. The conflict of interest policy is included in the employee manual. New employees upon hire, and existing employees on an annual basis, are required to review and acknowledge his/her understanding of the policy. Every officer and board of directors' member is required to disclose any conflicts of interest and reaffirm their independence at board meetings which is documented in the register, and annually in writing, by responding to a conflicts of interest questionnaire. Potential conflicts are investigated immediately.”

“World animal protection undertakes a comprehensive process to determine the executive compensation paid to its executive director. To assess the executive director's compensation, comparability data from non-profits of similar mission focus, budget size and geographic region is gathered from publicly available salary surveys. The executive director's compensation is then discussed at a board of directors meeting and any potential salary increases are documented in committee meeting minutes. As a general rule, world animal protection conducts market comparison studies every three years to ensure that salaries are competitive with market rates.”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements may be provided at management's discretion, if requested.”

“World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. We expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. For over 75 years, we've been rewriting the story for animals. Working across almost 50 countries with offices in 12, enables us to engage with and influence global decision makers. We prioritize helping animals in farming and wild animals exploited for use in entertainment, as pets, and in fashion. Our values our global values and behaviours shape everything that we do. We have seven values that form a central part of how we work together. 1. We are global 2. We are diverse, equitable, and inclusive 3. We are collaborative 4. We are agile 5. We grow our people 6. We are accountable 7. We are courageous by embracing these values and behaviours we will achieve our vision and mission for animals. Our global strategy 2021-30 food systems and wildlife are two pillars of our global strategy for the next decade that have unique, interconnected goals. Food systems strategy we will end factory farming by disrupting the cruel and destructive systems that support its expansion and driving growth of innovative, animal-free foods. Wildlife strategy we will end the exploitation of wild animals by exposing the suffering they endure in captivity and dispelling false narratives. We foster strategies that protect wild animals and their habitats.”

“Animals in the wild: shutting down miami seaquarium in q1 2024, world animal protection team members met with officials in miami-dade county to emphasize the need to shut down the miami seaquarium, ensure all animals are sent to facilities that do not force them to entertain visitors, and utilize our relationships with sanctuaries to rehome the parrots and tortoises. Our petition exceeded 50,000 signatures. The county announced plans to evict the owners from the venue and gave the company until mid-april to vacate. World animal protection launched new actions urging our supporters to email ceo of the dolphin company, eduard albor, demanding that he respect the eviction and release all animals to places where they can receive better care and attention. We also circulated an open letter to mr. Albor signed by several prominent celebrities. The dolphin company has been fighting the eviction in local courts since april 2024. Ending the sale of animals in pet stores world animal protection's toolkit for individuals and grassroots groups to develop and support local bans on selling animals in pet stores continues to add value and strength to the movement. A supporter in arlington, massachusetts used many of the materials in the toolkit to move the local council to introduce and pass a first-of-its-kind bill banning the sale of all animals in local pet stores. This is the first time a local retail sales ban has included fishes. In addition, following testimony by world animal protection and past success in new york city, allentown, pennsylvania banned the sale of guinea pigs in pet stores. We continue to be a thought leader and expert in the issue of pet sales with several grassroots groups working to build momentum in their local areas using our resources and advice. Short documentary film brings attention to joyce the elephant and call to release her to sanctuary on world elephant day, august 12, we launched our short documentary film sharing the story of joyce, an elephant brought to the us in the 1980s along with dozens of other calves orphaned by the zimbabwean government's culling campaign. Mundi, an elephant world animal protection helped rehome to a sanctuary in 2023, was also part of this group with joyce. Since arriving in the us, joyce has had a tumultuous and traumatic history, bouncing around between various zoos, circuses, and other facilities, before relocating to six flags great adventure in new jersey in 2010 as part of its wild safari exhibit. The film launch coincided with our petition to six flags demanding the company release joyce to one of the three reputable sanctuaries in the us immediately and move to phaseout the elephant exhibit altogether. By the end of 2024 the petition had collected over 25,000 signatures from the us's efforts alone and the petition has been shared globally by other world animal protection country offices. Working with more travel companies to promote animal-friendly travel world animal protection continues to be viewed as a thought leader and prime resource for travel companies seeking to create policies and experiences guided by ethical travel frameworks. In 2024, veggies abroad and kodama travel worked with our teams to craft animal welfare policies and kodama became an official corporate partner. In addition, we continued to take on some of the largest travel booking and experience companies who have yet to adopt animal welfare guidelines. We disrupted the annual staff meeting of getyourguide at its headquarters in berlin and in front of its peers at the skift global forum in new york city. The latter, a demonstration outside of the global event, was covered in skift's own publication online. Animals in farming: stopping the expansion of mega meat company jbs jbs, the largest meat producer and processor in the world, submitted a proposal in 2023 to list as a publicly traded company on the new york stock exchange (nyse). Throughout 2024, world animal protection individually and in pa”

“Other professional fees: program service expenses 535,931. Management and general expenses 112,511. Fundraising expenses 297,651. Total expenses 946,093.”

“The process has not changed from prior year.”