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Our Impact

Across Asia, we’re improving the lives of street dogs, protecting wild animals from poaching, ending the intensive confinement of pregnant sows and egg-laying hens, shutting down the dog and cat meat trade, promoting humane solutions to wildlife conflicts, ending the use of animals in research and more.

2,500

dogs raised for slaughter in South Korea were rescued by Humane World for Animals before we helped ban the dog meat trade there

45

countries around the world have banned cosmetics animal testing—including South Korea and India

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percent of Bhutan’s street dogs have been sterilized and vaccinated with our support

What we are working on

Across Asia, we're fighting the dog meat trade, working to end factory farming and animal testing, protecting wildlife and street animals, and helping animals in cruelty situations and in the aftermath of disasters.

Dogs in a cage on a South Korea dog meat farm.

Jean Chung for HSI

The dog meat trade will be illegal in South Korea by 2027.

End the dog and cat meat trades

Millions of dogs and cats are subjected to brutal capture and killing for the meat trade. We campaign year-round in South Korea, Indonesia, China, Viet Nam and India to end this cruelty.

People feeding community dogs

NItesh Vasava/HSI

Caring for community dogs in Vadodara, India.

Street dog welfare

Our dog management program provides an integrated and humane solution to India’s street dog population challenge.

Food

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Compassionate, healthy and delicious!

Forward Food

Through the Forward Food initiative, we're working to create a healthier, more sustainable food system.

Two men carefully handle a snake contained safely within a bag

Sumanth Bindumadhav/HSI

A demonstration with careful handling.

Human-wildlife coexistence

In India, we're working to decrease incidence of snake bites to protect snakes and humans.

A mouse being handled

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Animals don't need to suffer for science to advance.

Ending animal testing

In 2020, more than 4 million monkeys, dogs, pigs, birds, rabbits, rodents and other animals died in South Korean laboratories. We're supporting legislation there to advance science without suffering.

Piglets

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Farmed animals should be able to move around freely.

Focus on farmed animal welfare

In Viet Nam, we're working with retailers and restaurants to improve animal welfare in food supply chains.

Where we work

Humane World for Animals is working toward the end of cruelty to animals in Asia. We have staff on the ground or support local organizations throughout the region.

Latest News

a dog in a cage

Jean Chung

Ahead of China’s Yulin dog meat ‘festival’, a new survey reveals most Yulin residents don’t eat dog or cat meat and say a ban would have no impact on their lives

BEIJING—Ahead of the Yulin dog meat ‘festival’ in south China beginning on 20 June to coincide with the summer solstice, a new consumer survey in the city shows that a super majority of Yulin

Asia
Sa-Nguan Farm launches Thailand’s first cage-free pasteurized eggs

BANGKOK—Humane World for Animals, formerly called Humane Society International, commends Sa-Nguan Farm, an egg producer based in Saraburi province, for becoming the first company in Thailand to

Asia
Top Thai pasta manufacturer goes cage-free

BANGKOK—Humane Society International in Thailand is celebrating the notable recent achievement of Scarletta and Sloane’s Artisan, a restaurant group and pasta manufacturer, which announced a

Asia

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