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What We Do

Six programme areas, funded through vetted local partners, focused on the places where animal suffering is greatest and local infrastructure is weakest.

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Street dogs waiting for rescue

In brief

World Animal Rescue Network funds six programme areas through vetted local partners across 17 countries: street dog rescue (CNVR), wildlife sanctuary and rehabilitation, anti-trafficking operations, working equine clinics, community cat welfare, and habitat protection. WARN makes grants to frontline organisations rather than running its own field operations.

The six programmes, at a glance

  • Street dog rescue — WHO-endorsed Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return in Pakistan and South Asia — a humane alternative to culling that also breaks rabies transmission.
  • Wildlife sanctuary — Rehabilitation capacity for orangutans, slow lorises, pangolins and sun bears with partners in Indonesia and Malaysia.
  • Anti-trafficking — Customs-trained detection units and confiscation-to-sanctuary pipelines in Southeast Asia and South America.
  • Working equine clinics — Mobile veterinary teams delivering surgery, farriery and nutrition support to working horses, donkeys and mules.
  • Community cat welfare — Sterilisation, vaccination and emergency triage for stray and community cats in affected regions.
  • Habitat protection — Land purchase, buffer-zone management and corridor restoration to stop the displacement that drives most rescue need.

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Our Programmes

Street dogs
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Pakistan & South Asia

Street Dog Rescue

A WHO-endorsed Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (CNVR) programme we fund in Pakistan's largest cities, providing a humane and effective alternative to culling. Dogs are caught, neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and returned to their territory.

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Orangutan in sanctuary
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Indonesia & Malaysia

Wildlife Sanctuary

Funding sanctuary and rehabilitation capacity for rescued wildlife — orangutans, slow lorises, pangolins, and sun bears — through in-network partners in Indonesia and Malaysia, with wider regional education kept live for search.

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Parrot rescued from trade
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SE Asia & South America

Anti-Trafficking Operations

Supporting customs-trained detection units, confiscation-to-sanctuary pipelines, and community awareness programmes targeting traffickers of parrots, macaws, slow lorises, and pangolins.

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Working horse receiving care
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Pakistan

Working Equine Clinics

Funding mobile veterinary clinics that bring emergency surgery, farriery, and nutrition support to working horses, donkeys, and mules — animals that support millions of families but receive almost no veterinary care.

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Community cat being helped
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Indonesia & Malaysia

Community Cat Welfare

Sterilisation, vaccination, and emergency triage for stray and community cats, alongside educational dog and cat meat trade content for Southeast Asia search intent.

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Tropical forest habitat
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17-country network

Habitat Protection

Supporting land purchase, buffer zone management, and corridor restoration to protect critical habitat from deforestation and agricultural conversion — the root cause of most wildlife displacement crises.

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Where We Work

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How We Work

We fund local partners

We do not parachute in. We identify vetted local organisations with deep in-country expertise and give them the resources to act at scale.

We measure outcomes

Every grant requires outcome reporting — number of animals treated, surgeries performed, sanctuaries expanded. We report to donors.

We scale what works

Programmes that demonstrate impact receive increased funding. We are building a playbook of replicable, evidence-based interventions.

How WARN's programmes work

What does WARN actually do?
WARN raises funds from the public and makes grants to vetted frontline animal rescue, shelter and sanctuary organisations across 17 countries. We do not run our own field operations — local partners with in-country expertise deliver the work, and WARN funds, vets and reports on it.
Why does WARN fund partners instead of running its own operations?
Local organisations already hold the relationships, permits, veterinary staff and language skills that effective rescue needs. Funding them puts more of each pound into animal care and less into overheads, and it builds capacity that outlasts any single grant.
How does WARN choose which partners to fund?
Partners are vetted against track record, governance, species expertise and community relationships. WARN does not fund any organisation that uses lethal control methods, except in extraordinary veterinary circumstances where euthanasia is the humane option.
What is CNVR and why does WARN fund it?
CNVR stands for Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return. Street dogs are humanely caught, neutered, vaccinated against rabies and returned to their own territory. It is the World Health Organization-endorsed approach: over time it shrinks the population and eliminates rabies transmission, which culling does not.
Does WARN report on the results of its grants?
Yes. Every grant carries an outcome reporting requirement — animals treated, surgeries performed, sanctuary places added — and programmes that demonstrate impact receive increased funding. See worldanimalrescuenetwork.org/about/where-your-money-goes for the funding breakdown.