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We are profoundly grateful to our donors for trusting Conservation International to pursue solutions to some of the most critical challenges of our time.
grants to support our most urgent priorities: forest protection and regeneration, engagement with Indigenous groups, the development of innovative financing mechanisms to support sustainable businesses, and more.
the constraints imposed by COVID to deliver quality conservation outcomes while ensuring the health and safety of our staff, partners and beneficiaries.
progress toward our conservation goals in fiscal year strongest on record.
Wilson shared his ideas through a deep and engrossing body of written work that helped to popularize biodiversity, untangle the complex web of nature and convey the protection of the natural world as a moral imperative.
“Every conservationist and ecologist owes their career path in some way to Ed,” reflected Conservation International CEO M. Sanjayan.
“He challenged the organization to focus intensively on protecting the most important biodiversity hotspots,” said Peter Seligmann, founder of Conservation International and Chairman of the Board.
That pioneering approach became the organization’s guiding blueprint for more than investment in nature’s most important, irreplaceable ecosystems.
Until the very end, Wilson was still making major contributions to conservation.
At the age of he famously called for devoting 50 percent of the Earth’s surface to nature to stave off mass extinction.
We honor and remember Wilson for bonding science to action and telling stories that have inspired and connected us to a larger, guiding truth: We must protect nature for the sake of all life on Earth.
, the conservation movement lost one of its giants, Dr. Thomas Lovejoy.
Lovejoy was a world-renowned conservation biologist, who spent more than trying to protect the Amazon rainforest.
Known by many as the “godfather of biodiversity,” he coined the term “biological diversity” and was an early proponent that habitat destruction and global warming are profoundly altering our planet’s ecosystems and their rich abundance of life.
Lovejoy was a member of Conservation International’s Leadership Council and was integral to the organization’s earliest successes.
In which a portion of a developing country’s foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for commitments to environmental protection and policy measures.
Since the first debt-for-nature swap between Conservation International and Bolivia in with billions of dollars in funding being made available for environmental protection.
His prolific writing and genial nature won him countless accolades and inspired generations of passionate conservation advocates.
“He was a giant in conservation, a champion for the Amazon, and above all a kind and generous scientist.
We will miss him greatly,” said Conservation International CEO M. Sanjayan.
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Strengthening the human-animal bond by supporting pets and those who love them.
His unrelenting dedication to service, education and the human animal bond will effect positive changes in making veterinary care accessible for all who need it.
develop more inclusivity and equity within the animal welfare industry.
CARE believes closing the gap is possible, but it requires reaching-out to people of color and seeking their leadership in the lifesaving work of Animal Welfare – and we’re here to help makes strides in closing the gap.
That’s why in a $250,000 grant to help fund research into biases within the animal welfare industry, the impact of policies on People of Color and to expand on studies examining the under-representation of African American employees in animal welfare organizations.
Funding also supports staff training for a variety of animal welfare organizations, instituting an online certification program and a one-of-a-kind implicit bias test to help animal welfare organizations in their journey towards a more diverse, equitable and inclusive industry for all pets and people.
His inherent nature of giving back, combined with a soft spot for supporting animals and animal lovers in his community, will change the lives of those in need across North America through his generous contributions to PetSmart Charities.
Help ensure the welfare and humane treatment of nearly species living in the world’s zoos, aquariums and conservation centers.
Help ensure that nearly a billion farm animals have enough space, proper food, water, heating, cooling, lighting and other humane protections.
Flood of Aid: Following historic flooding in Oklahoma, our rescue team rushed in, saving bewildered, terrified animals like Roscoe, an aging, mixed-breed dog whose home disappeared under water and was found clinging to life in the branches of a tree.
Australian wildfires: American Humane worked with our humane conservation partners to support lifesaving efforts to get veterinary care, food, water, medicines and supplies to the animal victims in the scorched wastelands of Australia.
• bringing help to those who need it most: American Humane conducted free veterinary clinics to help animals in some of the most resource-poor areas of the country, bringing spay and neuter services and lifesaving vaccines provided free of charge by Zoetis Petcare to dogs and cats whose families cannot afford to give them medical care.
• Training more rescuers: Our American Humane Rescue team, which has been first to serve in rescuing animals for more than trained 880 animal emergency responders in 17 states and the nation’s capital – so that they can be ready to help animals in need… anytime, anywhere.
team helped train new animal responders in 17 states and D.C. 8 AMERICAN HUMANE 2020 IMPACT REPORT KeePing HoPe Alive: disAster in tHe bAHAMAs Surrounded by the shattered remains of her home, an elderly dog lay barely moving on an old mattress.
In September, the most powerful hurricane ever to strike the Bahamas swept through the island chain with winds of splintering homes, buildings, boats, trees and lives.
In the wake of the disaster, American Humane, the country’s first national humane organization, immediately deployed its rescue team with an invitation from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, conducting search-and-rescue operations, setting up, rebuilding and running shelters, transporting tons of emergency food, performing spay-and-neuters, funding veterinary care, and helping airlift animals to New Providence Island to help reunite pets with their families.
Scores of beautiful cats and kittens were evacuated – a rescue made possible by generous donations from animal lovers across the country, including a remarkable grant from the Marta Heflin Foundation.
Responding to an official call for assistance, the American Humane Rescue team rushed to the scene with its chief rescue veterinarian, trained swift- and floodwater responders, rescue boats, critical medical and sheltering supplies generously donated by Zoetis, and one of our animal rescue vehicles.
Our team began search-and-rescue and flood/slack water operations, navigating murky waters in the Muskogee area.
Along with local animal groups, they began saving cats, dogs and even a wild rabbit.
The location where Roscoe had been left in a fenced yard was now under 10 to 12 feet of water.
“Pulling his large body from the muddy water wasn’t easy as he was tangled in the branches.
As he was transported out of the flood area he promptly collapsed into a deep sleep.
Supported by a host of human stars, including Betty White, Jay Leno, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Pauley Perrette, Ariel Winter, Vivica A. Fox, Richard Marx, Daisy Fuentes, Alison Sweeney and dozens more animalloving VIPs, our Hero Dogs and what they have done for us uplift the human spirit and inspire us to return the favor to all our animal friends.
Today, American Humane is the largest certifier of animal welfare in the world, with innovative programs that help ensure humane conditions for some one billion animals across the country and around the world.
All of our certification programs are built upon objective, evidence-based standards created by the world’s leading veterinarians, animal experts and animal ethicists.
To ensure compliance with these standards and absolute integrity of reporting, these standards are enforced by independent, expert third-party auditors or Certified Safety Animal Representatives with ultimate oversight of all programs provided by the country’s trusted first national humane organization.
Promoting the welfare and humane treatment of nearly than 200 rigorous, science-based standards covering everything from adequate space to air and water quality, heating, lighting, shade and animals’ ability to engage in natural behaviors.
Significant additions like these help to increase the reach of our protective umbrella covering hundreds of millions of chickens, turkeys, dairy cows and other agricultural species who deserve good welfare and humane treatment.
• Encouraging Congress and the American people to support humanely raised foods was the goal of our Capitol Hill briefing, outlining advances in agricultural practices and calling on everyone to rally behind humane farming practices that feed the world and treat animals right.
“We’ve been committed to excellence in animal welfare standards since my family started ranching in 1875.
To elevate standards and shine a spotlight on those who take good care of their animals, American Humane developed the first-ever independent, science-based humane certification dedicated solely to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the animals in the world’s zoos, aquariums and conservation centers.
Published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, elementary, middle and high school students read stories of animal rescue, rehabilitation and conservation being played out at American Humane Certified zoos and aquariums around the world.
• Raised public awareness for humane conservation: American Humane created a series of six educational videos about the vital role of zoos and aquariums in conservation, prompting more than 15 million views on social media.
“Beginning in the increasingly aware of the ethical issues arising in animal use.
American Humane, which has been part of virtually every major animal relief operation since World War I, is working with our humane conservation partners to support lifesaving efforts to get veterinary care, food, water, medicines and supplies to the animal victims.
Additionally, we are supporting the ZAA Australia Wildlife Conservation Fund which places rescued animals in appropriate facilities for care and addresses long-term recovery efforts to return healthy animals to regenerated habitats to revive and sustain populations of wildlife.
“The Australian wildfires have inflicted one of the most terrible losses of animal life of all time and we need our leading zoological institutions more than ever to step in with their expertise and help the survivors,” said American Humane President and CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert.
The American Humane Hollywood program has been First to Serve in the protection of our beloved animal actors since 1940 and is the only industrysanctioned effort to oversee animal safety on filmed production sets.
Millions look for our famed “No Animals Were Harmed®” certification to assure them that furred, finned and feathered performers from Black Beauty to Benji were kept safe and humanely treated under the watchful supervision of our trained Certified Animal Safety Representatives.
Prevention of risk is American Humane’s top priority, which is why we work closely with producers, directors, animal wranglers and stunt coordinators before even one frame of film is shot.
In supervised some remarkable performances by our animal friends.
By playing the “best friend” to a protagonist, these theatrical thespians achieved several goals, which include, but are not limited to enriching the lead actors’ vulnerabilities, extracting the characters’ authentic selves, bringing some comic relief and ultimately highlighting the importance of the human-animal bond.
A few of the films this year that featured amazing animal actors who rode in the passenger’s seat with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are the Disney epic, Togo; A Dog’s Journey; Playing With Fire; John Wick: Chapter Time in Hollywood, which features Brad Pitt, who won an Oscar for his turn as a stuntman whose only best friends are Leonardo DiCaprio and his dog, Brandy (who also happens to be a “Pit(t),” as well!).
Best practices are being developed by American Humane animal welfare specialists and an independent Scientific Advisory Committee consisting of the world’s leading animal welfare experts, veterinarians, researchers and animal ethicists.
Covering every aspect of air travel from health certifications to pre-flight preparation and acclimation, check-in, temporary housing, ground transport, crating, loading and unloading, employee training and crew notifications, breed protections, temperature inside and outside the aircraft, wait times, monitoring checks, availability of food and water, route length and scores of other factors, the effort represents a significant, science-based step forward in helping ensure the health, comfort and welfare of animal passengers in commercial aviation.
Dogs have been darlings of the screen since film’s beginnings, says Robin Ganzert, author of Animal Stars and president and CEO of American Humane, the nonprofit that monitors onset animal safety to provide the “No Animals Were Harmed” certification.
“At American Humane we say, ‘Only their unconditional love is contagious.’” globAl AWAreness And PUbliC edUCAtion As the leader on animal welfare issues since our expertise and commentary.
• Our award-winning national television and radio PSAs are reaching millions of people each year with lifesaving information, messages of compassion and practical ways the public can support humane farming, humane conservation of the world’s remarkable and endangered creatures, veterans needing service dogs and animals caught in disasters and cruelty cases.
Teaching kids to be kind: Partnering with the publishers of Chicken Soup for the Soul library, American Humane developed the Humane Heroes series of free eBooks and accompanying national curricula for elementary, middle and high-school students that seek to instill the love and value of animals into young people, and teach them about conservation and how to be advocates for animals through the stories of rescue, rehabilitation and humane conservation work being done at leading zoological institutions.
“When humans fail to take action to protect animals from unethical treatments, fail to have biosecurity procedures, fail to have independent oversight from animal welfare and fail to change societal norms for the betterment of all animal kind, this is exactly the disaster we invite.
Pandemics of this nature have occurred time and time again for centuries.
world-renowned animal ethicist “I wanted American Humane to be part of all the action.
But then came november The Center for Biological Diversity had some extraordinary moments in of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, our securing of 27 million acres of protected habitat for endangered species, our achievement, along with local Arizona partners, of superstar status for El Jefe the American jaguar.
Every step of the way we’re fighting the president as he tries to deny the reality of climate change, discredit science, gut our environmental laws, despoil our public lands and waters, open the doors to killing off our native wildlife, conduct mass deportations, eliminate regulations protecting poor communities from pollution and violence and take away women’s reproductive rights.
We’ve sued to reverse Trump’s order opening up the Arctic Ocean to oil drilling.
— to see justice done against the Bundys and their co-conspirators and make sure our national parks, forests and refuges, and other public lands remain protected for all people.
This included drastic declines; 40,000 square miles of ocean habitat for the 500 North Atlantic right whales remaining in the world; and almost 40,000 acres for the Kentucky arrow darter, a beautiful fish found in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains that is threatened by coal mining.
In July we led petitioning the Obama administration to end new fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and oceans.
We went back to court, with our allies, and sued over inadequate environmental review.
After organizing a schoolchildren’s contest to name the only wild jaguar living in the United State at the time, the Center and our partners at Conservation CATalyst released remote-camera footage of “El Jefe” to the public.
This year we launched our Wild Energy campaign, promoting renewable energy solutions that benefit wildlife as well as human communities.
Our Population and Sustainability team put out a groundbreaking report, Throwing Shade: Blocking Distributed Solar Development, to try to encourage states that have high potential for solar, but bad policy on it, to realize their potential.
We helped push Amazon to commit to greatly expanding its rooftop solar commitment, and we delivered more than messages from supporters to their representatives in Congress, urging them to put solar panels on government buildings.
Wild Energy GAVE A VOICE AND NAME TO AMERICA’S ONLY WILD JAGUAR.
A groundbreaking report we released in among major pesticide products reported in patenting documents — impacts the EPA failed to consider when approving those products to enter our environment.
At the Paris climate summit, we pressed for U.S. leadership on cutting greenhouse emissions.
In our work to keep fossil fuel drilling from further damaging our oceans, we mobilized and supported a movement to end new oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico in 2016.
We successfully urged President Obama to permanently remove the majority of the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic from the federal government’s fossil fuel leasing program, as well as to keep all of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans out of its new five-year offshore leasing plan.
We won landmark victories in California this year protecting the state’s rich biodiversity from the harms of sprawl: In the state’s Supreme Court we prevailed over Newhall Ranch, a massive sprawl development near Los Angeles.
Services Center for Biological Diversity's management practices ensure that operating funds raised in the current year are effectively put to use to support programs to further the mission.
The following figures represent sources and uses of operating funds for the calendar year beginning January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016.
We envisage a time when illegal wildlife trade is a rare aberration, rather than a multibillion-dollar industry, and when humanity truly values wildlife conservation as an essential priority.
to wildlife and the habitats we all depend upon, especially forests and oceans.
In Africa, we seek to inspire political and business leaders, the urban middle class and the younger generation to engage as passionate guardians of their wildlife in the face of unprecedented threats from population growth, agricultural expansion, unsustainable resource extraction and climate change.
Marshall Lally for WildAid We could not address the main threats without focusing on climate impacts.
In China, we launched two massive campaigns each reaching over surveys showed our campaigns had led over 40% of audience to bring their own reusable items to reduce plastic consumption, and 45% to believe personal dietary habits have environmental impacts.
In Mexico, our programs continue to support coastal fishers and their families, while in the Dominican Republic we worked to protect coral reef systems in the Caribbean.
Although banned in China and Vietnam, rhino horn consumption continues as traders peddle it as a purported cancer and hangover cure, and collectors value it for carvings and jewelry.