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 corporate member is its parent organization, located in the united kingdom has the right to vote and shall exercise its membership rights and obligations by appointing authorized individuals to act on its behalf on the world animal protection board of directors.”

“The sole member has the power to remove any officer at any time.”

“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 comment. Each board member was provided opportunity to comment on the information contained in the form 990 prior to its filing with the internal revenue service.”

“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.”

“In the wild: we launched wildlife. Not pets, our new global campaign to cause maximum disruption to the exotic pet industry. Billions of wild animals suffer and die each year, yet hardly anyone knows about it. Wildlife. Not pets aims to protect the welfare of parrots, snakes, otters, indian star tortoises and so many other species cruelly poached, or captive bred to supply the global exotic pet industry. Exotic pets suffer from life in captivity inflicts on wild animals. Our undercover evidence exposed the cruelties in the illegal trade of african grey parrots. This evidence, linking the parrots' export from the democratic republic of the congo (drc) to turkish airlines, and our strong supporter mobilization, resulted in the company swiftly putting a transportation ban in place. Our investigations also revealed the shocking truth about how otter cafes in japan and the popularity of keeping them as pets, drives otter cub poaching from the wild. Their trafficking and unregulated captive breeding causes horrendous suffering. We helped secure a ban on international trade for commercial purposes. We also ensured that asian small-clawed and smooth-coated otters, and indian star tortoises are protected from the exotic pet trade through our work with convention of international trade of endangered species (cites). All three species were elevated to appendix 1 status in 2019. This means the commercial trade of these wild-caught animals is now banned. Wildlife not medicine: we gained wide global media coverage of misery caused to tigers, lions and other big cats because of use in traditional asian medicine through our report 'trading cruelty'. We formed partnerships to work on ways of ending captive lion breeding in the country for traditional asian medicine. In 2019, we supported our partner the bioresource research centre of pakistan (brc) in successfully lobbying to get bears better protection under the punjab wildlife act. Our joint work means it is now illegal to hunt or poach brown bears. We also helped our partners asociatia milioane de prieteni (amp), who run a romanian bear sanctuary near zarnesti, raise nearly 62% of the sanctuary's running costs. Amp welcomed 11 new bears to the sanctuary in 2019 bringing the total they care for to 106. Protecting animals in communities: in 2019, we focused on moving governments and people worldwide to take actions to eliminate rabies. This fatal disease kills millions of dogs and thousands of people every year. We inspired the african union (au) to pass the animal health strategy for africa. It requires that all 55 au countries have a specific rabies strategy that includes humane dog population management by 2025. When implemented, this will ultimately protect the lives of 100 million dogs across the continent. As a member of the international companion animal management coalition (icam), we co-organized the world's only regular global conference dedicated to humane dog population management, in mombasa, kenya. Participants included 185 delegates representing 38 countries mostly from africa and asia. Their attendance was particularly significant as these countries have the greatest need for humane dog population management worldwide, not least due to its importance in controlling of dog-mediated rabies. Investing and support we hope that this conference will ultimately result in more governments prioritizing and investing resources in humane dog population management. We also educated students and teachers in china, kenya and sierra leone on responsible ownership and trained local authority representatives in thailand on mass dog vaccination and sterilization. Working with global organizations is vital in giving dogs better lives. Our engagement with the world health organization (who), the food and agriculture organization (fao) and the world organisation for animal health (oie) is achieving just that. In 2019, they agreed that mass dog vaccinations and responsible dog ownership must be the”

“The process has not changed from prior year.”

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