Our vision: a world where animal welfare matters, and animal cruelty ends.

Our mission: to build a united global animal welfare movement.

WSPA has been promoting animal welfare for more than 30 years. Our work is concentrated in regions of the world where few, if any, measures exist to protect animals.

WSPA's work is focused on four priority animal welfare areas:
Companion animals - responsible pet ownership, humane stray management and cruelty prevention.
Commercial exploitation of wildlife - intensive farming and the cruel management and killing of wild animals for food or by-products.

Farm animals - intensive farming, long distance transport and slaughter of animals for food.

Disaster management - providing care to animals suffering as a result of man-made or natural disasters, and thereby protecting people's livelihoods.

With consultative status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe, WSPA is the world's largest alliance of animal welfare societies. We are proud to coordinate this growing network, with more than 980 member organisations in over 155 countries.

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WSPA brings together people and organisations throughout the world to challenge global animal welfare issues.

WSPA has 13 offices and hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide.

For more information please visit http://www.wspa.org.uk .