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by tigers9 on October 13, 2008
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Domain is owned by HSUS, BOD is all the people from other AR groups,API, etc... think of this as global AR sanctuary ASSociation, bad news, antis are winning, I guess thsi is their answer to all the bans they are proposing, our exotic animals go to them???
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http://www.sanctuaryfederation.org/about.php#board
About the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries
In response to the virtually unchecked and hidden animal exploitation of inhumanely kept wildlife, and the wildlife trade itself; the flood of horses, captive wild parrots and abandoned "pet" reptiles suddenly without homes; the growing demand for sanctuary for farmed animals and animals used in labs; the plight of animals left in need by natural disasters and wars; and the need for the public to be able to differentiate exploitative operations from legitimate sanctuaries, animal protection leaders from a number of organizations came together in 2007 to found the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS). These dedicated individuals form the current Board of Directors.
The GFAS mission is focused:
to facilitate coordination of animal sanctuaries around the world
establish and carry out an agreed-upon accreditation and certification process to objectively verify that animal sanctuaries are providing animals the standards of care that they deserve
provide animal sanctuary operators with specific guidelines on the humane care of various animal species and assistance to develop their organizations
educate the public about the need to treat all animals humanely, the causes and conditions of displaced animals, and the compelling need to actively support accredited sanctuaries
GFAS is not the first accrediting organization for sanctuaries in the United States or other nations. While there have been sanctuary associations formed in the past, none has ever obtained worldwide recognition. Donors, the media, and members of the public have not recognized a single source of information on animal sanctuaries, partly because there have been so many isolated sanctuaries and no one, unified, international accrediting organization. Sanctuaries accredited by GFAS will have the highest level of credibility with donors, the media, and members of the public, and will be clearly distinguished from pseudo-sanctuaries and substandard facilities. The GFAS accreditation will be a “seal of approval” to reassure donors and foundations internationally.
In nations with an accreditation process in place, GFAS will bring the benefits of increased collaboration and opportunities for mentorship, with the goal of raising the level of care and building capacity whenever possible. GFAS will foster the synergy of sanctuaries working together in our global community, where the exploitation of the wildlife trade in particular must be addressed internationally.
No previous accrediting organization for sanctuaries has achieved the level of funding necessary to offer grants and be of real service to honorable sanctuaries across the globe as they strive to meet the incredible challenge of providing a fiscally sound infrastructure to meet the daily and long term needs of animals in the most humane manner possible. Offering compliance grants and fundraising solutions is a top priority for GFAS, recognizing the tremendous challenge sanctuaries face in meeting operating costs in these economic times.
The GFAS goal in working with and assisting sanctuaries is to ensure that sanctuaries are supported, honored, recognized and rewarded for meeting important criteria in providing care to the animals in residence, without putting unreasonable burdens on often over-extended and under-funded sanctuary operators.
Adam M. Roberts, President
Adam M. Roberts is a Senior Vice President of Born Free USA, based in Washington, DC. He helped found the organization in 2002 to bring the UK-based Born Free Foundation's message of compassionate conservation to the American public. He began his animal protection and conservation career in Washington in 1991 after graduating Vassar College. In addition to directing Born Free USA he serves on the Board of Directors of the Species Survival Network (SSN), a global coalition working on wildlife trade under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. He chairs the SSN Press Committee, Financial Committee, Bear Working Group, and Animals in Captivity Working Group. Adam is also a Member of the Board of Humane USA, a political action committee that works to raise funds for candidates for public office who have strong positions in favor of animal protection. In 2003, Adam founded The $10 Club, a charity to fund poverty alleviation projects in developing countries. He runs the organization single-handedly, and as a volunteer. To date, the organization has supported work in more than 50 countries. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Stephanie, daughters Bella (13) and Mia (4), two dogs, five cats, and two very pampered guinea pigs.
Mike Markarian, Vice President
Michael Markarian is executive vice president of The Humane Society of the United States, overseeing the organization's External Affairs section, which includes its campaigns, communications, field offices, government affairs, litigation, and other work. He also serves as president of The Fund for Animals, an affiliate of The HSUS providing direct care, food and medical treatment to thousands of animals each year at its wildlife rehabilitation centers and sanctuaries. Additionally, as president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, he oversees the lobbying and political activity of that affiliate. Markarian is currently the chairman of Humane USA, a non-partisan and unaffiliated Political Action Committee of the animal protection movement. Markarian has a master's degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, and he is a graduate of the University of Missouri's National Animal Cruelty Investigations School.
Kim Haddad, DVM, Treasurer
In addition to being Founder and Executive Director of Kimya Institute for Animal Welfare, and Manager of the Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition, Kim K. Haddad, DVM owns and manages three small animal hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also owns the San Mateo K9 Social Club a Dog Daycare, professional pet grooming salon and boutique for high quality foods and pet supplies. Dr. Haddad also provides veterinary care for California native wildlife at Coyote Point Museum, an AZA Accredited facility, and has been a relief veterinarian at the San Francisco Zoo for many years; she also served as medical director for Another Life for Animals, a domestic dog and cat rescue and shelter organization. She is also an advisor to the American Zoological Association Animal Welfare Committee, and is a member of the Animal Welfare Committee of the American Association of Zoological Veterinarians, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the California Veterinary Medical Association and the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1997 from the University of Florida, and worked as a small animal veterinarian and volunteered at the Jacksonville Zoological Gardens. A San Francisco native, she resides in the Bay Area with her two boys, four dogs and two cats.
Philip Wilson, Secretary
Philip Wilson is the Member Society Manager for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) in the USA. WSPA is an international non profit animal welfare organization and is also the world's largest alliance of animal welfare groups. WSPA works with over 900 independent animal welfare organizations (member societies) in 150 countries to raise the standards of animal welfare around the world. Philip joined WSPA in 1998, following several years of ecological research at the University of Reading in the UK. Initially based at the WSPA headquarters in London, he worked on a variety of wildlife programs including tackling the dancing bear issue in Turkey, bear baiting in Pakistan and bear farming in Asia. In 2003, he started working in a more generic way with WSPA member societies helping to implement WSPA's global mission of working more effectively and collaboratively with member societies. In 2004, Philip transferred to the WSPA US office where he has been located for the past 4 years, recruiting, supporting and engaging US member societies.
Sue A. Leary, Director
Sue Leary brings extensive experience in management of nonprofit organizations. Since receiving her B.S. in Biology in 1976, her career has focused on coordination of programs and services; education and advocacy; administration and planning; and membership development. Since 1995, she has served as President of American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) and its affiliate, the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation. AAVS, which opposes the use of animals in experimentation, has consistently supported sanctuaries that care for animals released from laboratories. Other Board appointments presently include: Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines, Gray Panthers, National Council for Animal Protection, and International Assoc. Against Painful Experiments on Animals. Ms. Leary served on the Planning Committee for the Sixth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences and continues to serve on the ALTWEB Project Team, based at the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Johns Hopkins University. Sue lives just outside Philadelphia, PA with her husband, Rob, and assorted furry friends.
Jeff Lydon, Director
Jeff Lydon is executive director of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. With two decades in the non-profit sector, Jeff has worked as a teacher of the deaf, an advocate for the homeless and disabled, and an executive with organizations serving both people and animals. He has published widely on animal issues and other social justice causes. Jeff earned a bachelor's degree at Allegheny College and a master's degree at Smith College, where he focused on humane education.
Ian Robinson, FRCVS, Director
Ian Robinson, BVSc Cert SHP CertZooMed FRCVS, is the Emergency Relief Program Director for IFAW - the International Fund for Animal Welfare. He oversees IFAW's international animal rescue, rehabilitation and sanctuary work around the world. This includes response to natural disasters, oiled wildlife following oilspills, marine mammal strandings and entanglements, and wildlife rescue as well as working with many rehabilitation centres and sanctuaries around the world. Ian qualified as a veterinarian from Bristol University, UK, in 1975, and following some 12 years in general practice, moved into animal welfare full time, first for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), where he helped open and managed the largest wildlife rehabilitation hospital in Europe, treating over 6,000 wildlife casualties per year, of over 200 different species. Ian joined IFAW in 2003. He has been involved in responses to animal emergencies in many countries around the world, both before and since joining IFAW, including the Arabian Gulf, Mauritania, the Galapagos Islands, India and Sri Lanka, as well as the UK, Europe and the USA. Ian has written a number of scientific papers, and contributed to several veterinary textbooks on wildlife. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2006.
Liz Clancy Ross, Director
With more than two decades in the animal protection world, Liz Clancy Ross currently serves as federal policy advisor to the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C. where she lobbies federal legislators on a number of animal protection issues. With a specialty in equine protection she has been deeply involved in the campaign to end the slaughter of horses for human consumption since its inception, and is a founding member of The Homes for Horses Coalition. She has been involved in a number of primate protection issues including a campaign to end the trade in wild-caught primates for research in the European Union, where she worked with legislators in both the British and European Parliament. Ross also played an instrumental role in the foundation of Save The Chimps and assisted with a lawsuit brought against the Air Force which resulted in the release of 21 Air Force chimpanzees to the Florida sanctuary. She serves on the board of The Ten Dollar Club, a global poverty-alleviation project. A native of California, Ross currently lives in northern Virginia.
Patty Finch, Executive Director
Patty Finch has worked in local, national and international humane organizations including nine years at The Humane Society of the United States, where she served as Vice President Youth Education, Executive Director of the National Association of Humane And Environmental Education, and as a founding Vice President of EarthKind and Humane Society International. While with HSUS, she took KIND News from a fledgling program to a paid subscription base reaching 650,000 children annually, and began the trainer-of-trainer humane education workshops with curriculum for teachers in Costa Rica, which continue to this day. Patty has also served on five humane organization boards. Her grant experience includes serving as a main author of a successful $9.2 million grant from the US Dept. of Education; designing and overseeing two grant award programs for the Think Tank at Maricopa Community College District; serving as a bi-state grant manager for the University of California at Fullerton; and conceptualizing the forerunner of the current grants program at PetSmart Charities, overseeing at times approximately 375 active grants annually, and evaluating close to 600 applications per year. She also initiated and guided development of the webinar offerings of PetSmart Charities, where she served in several positions, including Director of Charitable Giving and Programs. Patty has a Master's Degree, summa cum laude, from Arizona State University.
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From: Z [mailto:tiger@pahrump.net]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 12:35 PM
To: 'REXANO@yahoogroups.com'; 'wethepeoplepets@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: AR federation of sanctuaries
http://www.sanctuaryfederation.org/
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by Cro on October 13, 2008
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Yep, they are winning.
They have the money to do it, and the ignorant public who drop their quarters into the HS bins at the check out at PetCo and PetSmart. You know, the bins with the cute kitten photos on them.........
And they have the nit-whit hollywood actor / celebs who do the mindless commercials for them.
Best Regards John Z
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by tigers9 on October 13, 2008
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You can comment below the article. Also note, these people rescue pigs, chicken and cows, aka our FOOD animals that are raised with the purpose to be killed and eaten.
Z
http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2008/10/helping-sanctuaries-help-animals-the-global-federation-of-animal-sanctuaries/
Helping Sanctuaries Help Animals: The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries
October 13th, 2008
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This week, Advocacy for Animals presents an article on a new international organization dedicated to the establishment of objective standards for animal sanctuaries and to the accreditation of those sanctuaries. That organization is the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS). The article was written by Patty Finch, GFAS Executive Director.
What if six months ago you made a contribution to an organization that claimed to be an animal sanctuary, and only now discovered the truth about the facility? Perhaps some of its animals are sold to a ranch that allows canned hunts, meaning the animals are shot by “hunters” for “sport”, with no way to escape. Or perhaps the exotic animal facility you supported for its educational efforts turned out to imprison tigers in small enclosures or breed them in a basement. One mission of the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries is to ensure that donors are not deceived in this egregious manner and to support and shine a spotlight on legitimate and outstanding sanctuaries worldwide. These sanctuaries do the difficult and dedicated work of providing animals with the highest standards of humane care, free of any form of further exploitation.
Fortunately, many animal sanctuaries are exactly what they claim to be: an end, finally, to all forms of abuse and exploitation for the animals in their care. For these animals, whose profound losses can never be regained, sanctuaries are the line in the sand that says never again. It is over. You are safe now. At last.
Examples of outstanding sanctuaries are many. Asiatic black bears, cruelly incarcerated in Chinese bear farms and milked for their bile, may be rescued and rehabilitated at the Animals Asia Foundation’s bear sanctuary. After enduring years of suffering, these bears can at last move and roam, feel grass beneath their bodies, and be free of needless pain.
Cows, pigs, chickens, sheep and other animals exploited by the agribusiness industry find refuge in the rolling hills and grass at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Maryland, Farm Sanctuary in New York, and on the other shore of the United States at Animal Place in California, to name just a few of these stellar facilities.
Young African elephants, orphaned when their mothers are shot by poachers, once again enjoy a time of play in mud pits and watering holes at Daphne Sheldrick’s orphanage outside of Nairobi, Kenya.
Numerous species of monkeys, formerly languishing in laboratory cages or barren zoo enclosures or people’s homes where they were kept as “pets”, can climb trees and play with others of their own kind at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in Texas.
The most fortunate of exploited African and Asian elephants, often aging cast-offs of the circus and zoo industry, may find a final home of relative freedom and significant bonds with fellow elephants at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee or the Performing Animal Welfare Society Wildlife Sanctuary in northern California.
These sanctuaries, and others like them, walk the talk of recognizing each animal as an individual whose quality of life matters. These sanctuaries represent a pinnacle of humanitarianism, in which humans recognize their obligation to not only to stop exploitation of those at our complete mercy, but also to make retribution, the best that we can, for the often unspeakable wrongs done to these individual animals.
GFAS, and all true sanctuaries, maintain that a sanctuary is a facility that rescues and provides shelter and care for animals that have been abused, injured, or abandoned or are otherwise in need. GFAS holds that a true sanctuary does not allow any of the following:
• commercial trade
• invasive or intrusive research
• unescorted public visitation or contact in wild animal sanctuaries
• removal of wild animals for exhibition, education, or research.
All too often, however, the public is misguidedly led to believe that any captive animal facility—especially those with exotic wild animals—is a sanctuary. The operators of these “pseudo-sanctuaries” pray on this misconception to buy and sell wildlife and get financial support from the unwitting public.
Tigers provide a sad example of exploitation hidden under the guise of sanctuary. One hundred years ago there were an estimated 100,000 tigers remaining in the wild. Today, there are well fewer than 5,000. Yet more than 5,000 tigers are thought to be held in private hands across the United States today. But these tigers are not in naturalistic, humane enclosures with their behavioral, physical, emotional, and environmental needs met. They may be caged behind wire fencing with broken, protruding barbs. They stand on concrete, which may be splattered with their own feces. The only relief they get from the baking sun is a metal tub of filthy water. This is not a sanctuary: it is a prison.
With recent high-profile incidents of animal sanctuaries closing their doors due to lack of funds, or being investigated for improper animal care, there has been no widely known and respected international organization to turn to for help or for objective standards specific to sanctuaries. With no such reliable standards, any commercial operator or roadside menagerie can call itself an “animal sanctuary,” and the public is hard pressed to distinguish between legitimate operations and substandard ones.
Animal protection leaders from a number of organizations came together recently to found the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) in response to the virtually unchecked and hidden animal exploitation of inhumanely kept wildlife—and the wildlife trade itself; the flood of horses, captive wild parrots, and abandoned “pet” reptiles suddenly without homes; the growing demand for sanctuary for farmed animals and animals used in labs; the plight of animals left in need by natural disasters and wars; and the need for the public to be able to differentiate exploitative operations from legitimate sanctuaries. These animal protection leaders include Adam Roberts of Born Free USA United with API , Michael Markarian of The Humane Society of the United States, Kim Haddad, DVM, of Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition, and Philip Wilson of World Society for the Protection of Animals, all of whom serve as officers of GFAS. They serve as committed individuals, not as representatives of their parent organizations.
The GFAS mission is focused on the following goals:
• to facilitate coordination of animal sanctuaries around the world,
• to establish an agreed-upon accreditation and certification process to objectively verify that animal sanctuaries are providing animals the standards of care that they deserve,
• to provide animal sanctuary operators with specific guidelines on the humane care of various animal species and assistance to develop their organizations, and
• to educate the public about the need to treat all animals humanely, including refraining from keeping wild animals in captivity as pets, as well as the need to actively support accredited sanctuaries and the conservation of threatened and endangered species.
Thus, GFAS does not intend to run animal sanctuaries, but to help sanctuaries help animals. GFAS will provide an objective and realistic accreditation process for the field, as well as a forum for exchanging information and best practices. Sanctuaries will be aided in striving for continuous improvement, in attracting more support from funders, and in providing the best care possible for rescued animals. GFAS will help facilities coordinate the placement of animals and will offer sanctuaries more opportunities for participation and recognition in the larger animal protection community.
GFAS is not the first accrediting organization for sanctuaries in the United States or other nations. While there have been sanctuary associations formed in the past, none has ever obtained worldwide recognition. Donors, the media, and members of the public have not recognized a single source of information on animal sanctuaries, partly because there have been so many isolated sanctuaries and no one, unified, international accrediting organization. Sanctuaries accredited by GFAS will have the highest level of credibility with donors, the media, and members of the public and will be clearly distinguished from pseudo-sanctuaries and substandard facilities.
The GFAS accreditation will be a “seal of approval” to reassure donors and foundations internationally. In nations with an accreditation process in place, GFAS will bring the benefits of increased collaboration and opportunities for mentorship, with the goal of raising the level of care and building capacity whenever possible. GFAS will foster the synergy of sanctuaries working together in our global community, where the exploitation of the wildlife trade in particular must be addressed internationally.
GFAS will offer other ways to concretely help sanctuaries. No accrediting organization for sanctuaries has achieved the level of funding necessary, for instance, to offer grants and be of real service to honorable sanctuaries across the globe as they strive to meet the incredible challenge of providing a fiscally sound infrastructure to meet the daily and long-term needs of animals in the most humane manner possible. Offering compliance grants and fundraising solutions is a top priority for GFAS, recognizing the tremendous challenge sanctuaries face in meeting operating costs in these economic times.
GFAS will soon be introducing itself and reaching out to sanctuaries with supportive services and a clear process for sanctuary accreditation, as well as species-specific standards for bears, birds, primates, equines, chickens, big cats and other felids, pigs, elephants, canids, reptiles, and small ruminants. (Sanctuaries for companion cats and dogs are not included under the GFAS umbrella.) With peer review, these standards will be continually updated to reflect the gains made in understanding how to best serve the needs of the animals in sanctuary care. The GFAS goal in working with sanctuaries is to ensure that sanctuaries are honored, recognized and rewarded for meeting important criteria in providing care to the animals in residence without putting unreasonable burdens on over-extended and under-funded sanctuary operators.
—Patty Finch, Executive Director, GFAS
Images: GFAS logo—courtesy GFAS; tiger playing in water with pumpkin at sanctuary—Janice Clark, PAWS; tiger in tin tub—Kim Haddad, DVM.
To Learn More
• Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries
Virtually visit the sanctuaries mentioned in this article:
• Animal Place
• Animals Asia Foundation
• Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary
• Daphne Sheldrick’s Orphans Project
• Farm Sanctuary
• Performing Animal Welfare Society Wildlife Sanctuary
• Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary
• The Elephant Sanctuary
How Can I Help?
• Visit the GFAS at www.sanctuaryfederation.org to sign up for a free “webinar” (Web seminar) on how to help your favorite sanctuary write a successful grant application; it’s something you can do from home, even if you’ve never written a grant before.
• Check out the animal care and use policies of any animal sanctuary before you donate. Especially look for no commercial trade, no invasive or intrusive research, no unescorted public visitation or contact in wild animal sanctuaries, and no removal of wild animals for exhibition, education, or research.
• Ask sanctuaries if they are accredited or planning on pursuing accreditation. The answer should be yes!
Books We Like
Through Animals’ Eyes: True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary
Lynn Marie Cuny (1998)
The author of Through Animals’ Eyes founded Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (WRR) in 1977. WRR, located in Texas, rescues, rehabilitates, and releases wild animals who have been injured, orphaned, or displaced—more than 5,000 of them a year. It also provides a shelter and adoption service for domestic animals (dogs, cats, and others) and a permanent sanctuary for rescued farm animals (goats, cows, pigs, etc.). This book shares some stories to which Cuny has been witness in her years of wildlife rescue and gives a feel for the minute details of the world as it is experienced by animals. The first story in the book, about a family of ducks (two parents and a dozen ducklings) who experience a sudden loss while out for a swim one day, is keenly and empathetically observed. Through this and similar episodes, the reader learns more about what life is like for members of various species and, as Cuny says, “their unlimited depth of feeling and innate ability to care for one another.”
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1. Ryan Gelskey Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Hello! I represent a high school community service organization and we would love for you to send more information on how to help save animals. Please contact me.
Ryan
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by atwageman on October 13, 2008
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Here's an idea. Why don't we herd all these AR idiots into a sanctuary and then open it up as a African Big Game hunting preserve. "NO BAG LIMIT"
Like others have said--they have a endless budget. Maybe the folks on the street will slow down on droping their change into the charity box with the slow down in the economy. Of course the super rich idiots will continue to give.
I wish I could have a spare change box sitting on the check counter at the pet stores. I've taken in a number of snakes from folks in the last few months who can no longer afford their animals do to economic situations. Some of these folks who have hit hard times just amaze me...They call me up and ask if I can adopt their snake, and in the same sentence want me to pay for it. At that point I ask are you looking for someone to adopt your snake or are you trying to sell it? There is a diffrence.
Sorry for getting a little off topic.
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by tigers9 on October 13, 2008
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we have some anti AR free posters on REXANO website, 3 pages, soem are jsut anti mandatory castration
http://www.rexano.org/PosterGallery/PosterGallery.htm
Z
PS: Yes, I hate it too when 'adoption' fees are as high as buying a new animal.
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