IDA’s plans to help animals in 2011

January 16, 2011 · advocateforsavingdogs

IDA’s plans to help animals in 2011

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Please Renew Your Support Today!

Help In Defense of Animals start the new year strong … for all the animals in need.

I hope the holidays brought you and your loved ones much happiness
and love—for this is what your compassion and generosity have brought to
thousands of animals. As we begin a new year, I’m asking you to please renew your commitment to IDA for 2011.

In
the jungles of Cameroon, Africa, our Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue
Center provides a safe and peaceful home in natural habitat forest for
69 chimpanzees. The residents of Sanaga-Yong range in age from
less than one to over 40 years. All but one were orphaned as infants
when poachers killed their mothers. IDA-Africa is waging a public
education campaign to stop the killing and orphaning of chimpanzees.

In Mumbai, IDA-India campaigns for improvements to
animal protection laws, rescues and cares for abused and injured
animals, promotes vegetarianism, runs spay/neuter programs and equine
welfare camps, and fights to stop the use of animals in laboratories for
experimentation.

And in the American South—in one of the poorest regions of
Mississippi—IDA’s Hope Animal Sanctuary rescues and heals so many
animals that we’ve lost count. Just last week we confiscated
starving dogs who are already healing. Abandoned, neglected and abused
dogs, cats, horses, emus, and more – beginning life anew.

Animal suffering and abuse don’t disappear during bad economic times—in fact, they increase. In this economy, things are even worse for animals. That’s why I am asking you to continue your support of IDA in 2011.

We have always refused to compromise our principles by accepting
funding from corporate giants that help to institutionalize animal abuse
and exploitation. And last year, nearly 85 percent of every donation we received went directly to programs and rescues.

Please make the most generous donation you can.
Help us rescue animals from abuse and cruelty. Continue to stand with
IDA and for the animals. Help us to start the new year strong.

Let me share with you some of our plans for the upcoming months:

Captive Elephant Campaign: In 2011, we will work to bring more captive elephants like Lucky and Queenie to sanctuaries,
so they will be able to wander and enjoy an area both beautiful and
protected. We will continue our efforts to free elephants like Nosey
from circuses. She is living in misery as a result of well-documented
mistreatment in the Liebel Family Circus.

Please make the most generous donation you can. Continue to stand with IDA and for the animals.

Anti-vivisection Campaign: Since
the founding of IDA over 28 years ago, anti-vivisection has been one of
our core initiatives. We continue our fight to protect animals from
being infected, crippled, poisoned, blinded, and maimed. IDA’s
groundbreaking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit victories
against the NIH and the USDA revealed evidence of institutional animal
abuse and USDA’s cozy relationship with industry. We will
use the documents obtained to enlighten the public and our elected
representatives about the negligence and cruelty that is pervasive in
our nation’s labs, and our government’s attempts to cover them up.

Anti-fur Campaign: IDA has long been one of the leaders of the anti-fur movement.

Recently we co-sponsored the largest ever Fur Free Friday day of activism. Anti-fur protests took place in over 100 cities.

And in 2011 we’ll surge ahead with our Guardian Campaign to change
how society perceives animals; fight the South Korean dog and cat meat
trade; work to end the Japanese slaughter of dolphins; protect America’s
wild horses (in fact, this week IDA’s
attorneys are in court, continuing our challenge against the BLM’s
horrifying roundups of the last remaining wild horses); and promote
plant-based diets to reduce animal cruelty and reduce human-caused
climate change.

Today, in this horrible economy, your support is more important than ever…

You see the effects of this economy all around you every day. What
you may not see is the profound impact economic uncertainty is having on
organizations like IDA.

Thanks to your past giving—your investment in a better
world—we are blazing a compassionate trail in a world that is often
heartless and intolerably cruel to the most vulnerable among us.

Thank you for your kindness, caring, and generosity.

Elliot M. Katz, DVM
IDA Founder and Chairman of the Board

In
Defense of Animals, located in San Rafael, Calif., is an international
animal protection organization with more than 100,000 members and
supporters dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by
protecting their rights and welfare. IDA’s efforts include educational
events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and
hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi, Mumbai, India,
and Cameroon, Africa.
In
Defense of Animals is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We
welcome your feedback and appreciate your donations. Please join today!
All donations to IDA are tax-deductible.
In Defense of Animals
3010 Kerner, San Rafael, CA 94901
Tel. (415) 448-0048 Fax (415) 454-1031
idainfo@idausa.org

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