Active wildlife programs throughout Mesoamerica: Costa Rica, · Active wildlife programs throughout...

Five Key Areas•Improving Street Animal Welfare•Stopping Wildlife Abuse•Protecting Farm Animals•Ending Animal Testing•Confronting CrueltySeven Regional Offices•United States, Canada, Latin America (Costa Rica), India, United Kingdom, Europe (Belgium), Australia•Mexico and South Africa to open by 2015Working on wildlife programs in the Mesoamerican Region since 2004

HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL

Active wildlife programs throughout Mesoamerica: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

Office to open in 2015

Office opened in 

2004

Marine Wildlife Coalitions

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Latin America and Caribbean Regional Workshop on  Sharks Listed on Appendix II of CITES

CITES and fisheries authorities ‐

more than 70  representatives from 28 countries

Environmental Education

CITES Enforcement & Pathways Program

CITES Enforcement & Pathways Program

• 606 people (law enforcement, community leaders, NGO’s,

government representatives) trained on CITES enforcement

• 1 animal handling curriculum developed

• 391 people (law enforcement, community leaders, NGO’s,

government representatives) trained on animal handling

• 51 instructors trained to give animal handling training

• 5 wildlife rescue centers received infrastructure improvement,

protocol training, management plans

• 2 temporary care facilities received infrastructure improvement,

protocol training, management plans

• 18,082,871 people reached on outreach campaigns for wildlife

protection

• 1,581,771 tourists reached on outreach campaigns for wildlife

Training & Community Involvement

Bring together community leaders 

and government representatives

Train police and Customs officials in 

border areas

Create animal 

handling training 

curriculum

Public Outreach Campaigns

Outreach 

campaigns 

being revised 

for Pathways 

program

Educational 

curriculum for 

schoolchildren

Innovative Ways to Fight Illegal Trafficking

Economic alternatives training for community members

Improve Wildlife Rescue Centers

Improvements for current rescue centers

Building others from the ground up

Protocol development and training 

for rescue center staff

Working w/ CAWEN to standardize 

protocols across the region

Rehabilitated animals get released 

into the wild