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Assessing the impact of Typhoon Haiyan on animals in the Philippines
512 | Veterinary Record | November 30, 2013
Photograph: WSPA
DISASTER response teams from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) have been working in the Philippines to assess the needs of animals affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the country on November 8. The teams have been providing assistance in Cebu Province, the Bantayan Islands and in the Western Visayas, assessing the immediate and longer term needs in the areas, and helping to vaccinate and provide veterinary care for thousands of animals, both livestock and companion animals. ‘The loss of animals can lock people into an endless cycle of poverty, take away their ability to educate their children, expand their businesses and the freedom to make choices in their lives,’ says WSPA. Helping to maintain the health and welfare of surviving animals is key to giving people a chance of recovering and resuming a normal life. The charity is also working with local veterinary associations and faculties to train, equip and deploy veterinarians and others to the worst affected areas as part of teams of vets led by WSPA.
Watched by its owner, Olivia, Juan Carlos Murillo of WSPA examines a pregnant cow before administering vitamin injections in rural Antique Province, Western Visayas
The Food and Agriculture Organization said on November 19 that the typhoon had compromised the livelihoods of many people. The high winds, heavy rain and localised flooding had destroyed agricultural infrastructure and resulted in losses of the main staple rice, sugar
cane and coconut crops as well as of livestock, poultry and fisheries. It said it had mobilised its resources to assist farmers affected by the typhoon and that it would carry out a more thorough assessment ‘as soon as the situation on the ground allows’. doi: 10.1136/vr.f6955
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Assessing the impact of Typhoon Haiyan on animals in the Philippines
512 | Veterinary Record | November 30, 2013
Photograph: WSPA
DISASTER response teams from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) have been working in the Philippines to assess the needs of animals affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the country on November 8. The teams have been providing assistance in Cebu Province, the Bantayan Islands and in the Western Visayas, assessing the immediate and longer term needs in the areas, and helping to vaccinate and provide veterinary care for thousands of animals, both livestock and companion animals. ‘The loss of animals can lock people into an endless cycle of poverty, take away their ability to educate their children, expand their businesses and the freedom to make choices in their lives,’ says WSPA. Helping to maintain the health and welfare of surviving animals is key to giving people a chance of recovering and resuming a normal life. The charity is also working with local veterinary associations and faculties to train, equip and deploy veterinarians and others to the worst affected areas as part of teams of vets led by WSPA.
Watched by its owner, Olivia, Juan Carlos Murillo of WSPA examines a pregnant cow before administering vitamin injections in rural Antique Province, Western Visayas
The Food and Agriculture Organization said on November 19 that the typhoon had compromised the livelihoods of many people. The high winds, heavy rain and localised flooding had destroyed agricultural infrastructure and resulted in losses of the main staple rice, sugar
cane and coconut crops as well as of livestock, poultry and fisheries. It said it had mobilised its resources to assist farmers affected by the typhoon and that it would carry out a more thorough assessment ‘as soon as the situation on the ground allows’. doi: 10.1136/vr.f6955
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Assessing the impact of Typhoon Haiyan on animals in the Philippines Veterinary Record 2013 173: 512
doi: 10.1136/vr.f6955 Updated information and services can be found at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/173/21/512.1
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