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SLIDE 2 Five Key Areas
- Improving Street Animal Welfare
- Stopping Wildlife Abuse
- Protecting Farm Animals
- Ending Animal Testing
- Confronting Cruelty
Seven Regional Offices
- United States, Canada, Latin America (Costa Rica),
India, United Kingdom, Europe (Belgium), Australia
- Mexico and South Africa to open by 2015
Working on wildlife programs in the Mesoamerican Region since 2004
HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
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Active wildlife programs throughout Mesoamerica: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
SLIDE 4 Office to open in 2015 Office opened in 2004
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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
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Environmental Education
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CITES Enforcement & Pathways Program
SLIDE 9 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
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Training & Community Involvement
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Bring together community leaders and government representatives
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Train police and Customs officials in border areas
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Create animal handling training curriculum
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Public Outreach Campaigns
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Outreach campaigns being revised for Pathways program
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Educational curriculum for schoolchildren
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Innovative Ways to Fight Illegal Trafficking
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Economic alternatives training for community members
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Improve Wildlife Rescue Centers
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Improvements for current rescue centers
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Building others from the ground up
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Protocol development and training for rescue center staff
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Working w/ CAWEN to standardize protocols across the region
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Rehabilitated animals get released into the wild
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