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Ten countries. Six programmes. One mission: reach the animals that need us most.

A Bornean orangutan in the canopy of a rescue sanctuary in Kalimantan, Indonesia, surrounded by primary rainforest

Southeast Asia

Indonesia

Indonesia is the largest of WARN's ten operating countries and one of the most biodiverse nations on earth. It is also one of the most heavily impacted by deforestation, the illegal wildlife trade, and marine plastic pollution.

Palm-oil and pulpwood deforestIllegal pet trade
Dense Borneo rainforest canopy at dawn in Sabah, Malaysia, with mist rising between dipterocarp trees

Southeast Asia

Malaysia

Malaysia is both a source and a transit country for trafficked wildlife. The Bornean state of Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia each face distinct rescue challenges — orangutans, sun bears and pangolins on Borneo, and trafficking interdiction at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Wildlife trafficking through mBear bile trade
An Asiatic black bear with a distinctive crescent-shaped white chest patch in a forested sanctuary in northern Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Vietnam

Vietnam is the country at the centre of three of WARN's most urgent appeals: moon-bear bile-farming retirement, the cat meat trade, and pangolin trafficking interdiction.

Bear-bile farmingCat and dog meat trade
An Asian elephant browsing freely at an ethically-run non-contact sanctuary in northern Thailand

Southeast Asia

Thailand

Thailand sits at the centre of the global captive-wildlife tourism debate. Roughly 3,000-4,000 captive elephants live in Thai tourism, alongside tiger photo-ops, monkey shows and slow-loris selfie stalls.

Tourism-driven wildlife exploiBear bile trade
Wire and cable snares removed by a community anti-snaring patrol in eastern Cambodia laid out for documentation

Southeast Asia

Cambodia

Cambodia's eastern forests are at the centre of the Southeast Asian snare crisis. Researchers describe much of the remaining Lower Mekong forest as suffering from 'empty forest syndrome' — habitat that looks intact but holds almost no wildlife.

Wire and cable snaresCross-border smuggling to Viet
Community street dogs at a Karachi catch-neuter-vaccinate-release clinic recovering after surgery

South Asia

Pakistan

Pakistan is WARN's flagship street-dog welfare country. It is also home to the snow leopard, the markhor and a significant working-equine population. Our launch programme in Karachi is one of the most concrete pieces of WARN's first year.

Mass culling of community dogsUntreated rabies
A winding tributary of the Amazon basin in southern Colombia photographed from the air, with intact rainforest stretching to the horizon

South America

Colombia

Colombia is the most biodiverse country in the world by species per square kilometre — and one of the most active source countries for trafficked parrots, primates and reptiles bound for Europe and the United States.

Exotic pet trade in parrots anBushmeat hunting
Aerial view of illegal alluvial gold mining cutting clearings into Amazonian rainforest in Madre de Dios, Peru

South America

Peru

Peru's Madre de Dios region faces aggressive deforestation from illegal gold mining. Mercury contamination poisons the rivers, and clear-cuts displace primates and macaws into shrinking forest islands.

Illegal alluvial gold miningMercury contamination
An umbrella acacia silhouetted against golden Kenyan savanna at sunset in the Tsavo ecosystem, with a herd of elephants in the distance

East Africa

Kenya

Kenya is one of WARN's two East African operating countries and one of the most important wildlife-rescue countries in the world. The Tsavo ecosystem alone protects an estimated 13,000 elephants, and snaring is one of the largest non-poaching threats to large mammals.

Snaring set for bushmeatPoaching for ivory and horn
A family group of African savanna elephants moving across the open grassland of the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania

East Africa

Tanzania

Tanzania holds one of the largest contiguous protected wildlife landscapes in Africa — the Selous-Niassa corridor that links southern Tanzania with Mozambique. It is also home to one of Africa's largest remaining elephant and lion populations.

Bushmeat snaringIvory poaching

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