Animals Worldwide was born of a neutering project run for three years in Cyprus from 1999 by teams of young vets from Liverpool Veterinary School. Their aim was to neuter the feral cat population that inhabits the island’s hotels and put an end to the horrific sight of unwanted, starving and sick cats and kittens dying in the sun.
The project had the support for the Minister of Agriculture; hundreds of animals were successfully neutered and some were re-homed, and the young vets had excellent “hands-on” experience. However, with opposition from some Cypriot veterinary surgeons, the team had to withdraw. The progress made was lost and now the situation is as bad.
Drawing on the team’s experience in Cyprus, Suzy Gale has since created a network of some three hundred organisations and individual animal welfare workers worldwide and discovered that there are many small animal shelters operating on pitifully modest funds throughout the tourist resorts and expatriate communities around the Mediterranean, Commonwealth and beyond.
Whilst the larger and internationally recognised animal welfare organisations are doing sterling work, they are not well-placed to give hands-on support to these smaller projects.
There is, therefore, a gap in the provision of care for, particularly, feral and stray cats and dogs and unwanted and discarded equines. It costs a great deal of money to send out teams of veterinary surgeons to run catch/ neuter/ return projects – and it is not always certain that the local authorities will give permission.
Animals Worldwide accepts that only through sustained education programmes, preferably attached to animal welfare clinics and shelters, will a long term change in attitudes to the treatment and management of animals be achieved.
Our Areas of Focus
Education
Animals Worldwide proposes programmes for school children through the provision of teachings aids and, where possible, volunteer staff. We believe
Projects
AWW seeks to promote and support project-specific schemes. Through the AWW website, approved and verified projects will be given space
Tourism
Animals Worldwide seeks to build relationships with travel companies and to harness the eyes, ears and energies of the travelling
