Sentences with phrase «dog meat farmers»

We provide funding to train officials for improved enforcement of laws; help local partner groups on the ground with veterinary and shelter care for confiscated animals; raise global awareness of the suffering involved in illegal dog theft, transport and slaughter, including at China's annual Dog Meat Festival in Yulin; expose the horror of subterranean killing pits in Nagaland in India; and work with dog meat farmers in South Korea to transition them to more humane ways of making a living.
HSI has found that many dog meat farmers in South Korea are eager to leave the trade and transition to new livelihoods.
This is the ninth dog meat farm that HSI has permanently closed since 2014, rescuing and rehoming nearly 1,000 dogs by working in cooperation with dog meat farmers keen to get out of the trade.
HSI's Animal Rescue Team traveled to South Korea to transport 50 dogs to safety in the United States after a fifth dog meat farmer agreed to switch to an alternative livelihood.
As a part of our campaign to ban the dog meat trade in South Korea, HSI works to transition dog meat farmers to more humane industries and transports the dogs to regions where they can receive care and rehabilitation.
Part of the region's profitable dog meat trade, these dogs — ranging in age from 4 months to 2 years — were instead rescued by Humane Society International (HSI), a Washington D.C. — based animal welfare organization that's working diligently across Asia to end the dog meat trade and provide alternate options for dog meat farmers.
Dog meat farmers who approach HSI for help exiting the industry sign a legal contract with the charity to relinquish the dogs.
HSI hopes to work with more South Korean dog meat farmers to help them transition out of the business.
«Attitudes and behaviours are changing in South Korea and we're hopeful that the country's new president will take action to hasten an end to the dying dog meat trade, helping millions of dogs and thousands of dog meat farmers
HSI officials said they are working in some Asian countries to help dog meat farmers transition to other ways of making a living.
HSI's Animal Rescue Team is once again in South Korea, this time rescuing 50 dogs from the fifth dog meat farmer we've convinced to shut down his operation and switch to an alternative livelihood.
One of the critical factors in achieving political support is showing that the dog meat trade can be successfully phased out in cooperation instead of conflict with the dog meat farmers, so we are working together with those who are eager to leave the dog meat trade to shut down their operations and transition to humane livelihoods.
Once destined to be sold to a nearby dog meat market to be killed by electrocution and butchered in time for the Bok Nal days, the fate of the dogs all changed when the dog meat farmer asked HSI to help him close his dog meat farm in rural Yesan.
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