AFA 2010 - Sharing a vision of living amicably with animals

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

 

Sharing a vision of living amicably with animals

 

Founder-member of Dombivli-based NGO Paws attends world meet of animal

activists

Deepa H Sarna

 

The founder-member of a Dombivli-based NGO represented the city at one

of the largest gatherings of international animal protection activists

in Singapore. The five-day Asia for Animals Singapore 2010 conference

(AFA) was held from January 16-20.

 

Nilesh Bhanage, founder of Plants and Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) was

chosen as a speaker for Media Management Presentation for the conference

and also chaired a workshop on Working with volunteers for Asian

delegates arrived in conference. Nilesh spoke on the way Paws works with

the media. " In the workshop, I gave a presentation on how Paws

volunteers work as pillars of the organization, best practices, and

tactics dealing with different individual workers, " said Nilesh, who was

appreciated by the present delegates at this conference.

 

He also informed that this conference was a platform for all the

activists present to share their ideas and solutions. It also helped

them move closer towards their shared vision of a world where the

exploitation of all animals was absent. The programme covered a range of

issues, including running effective education outreach programmes,

improving the welfare of animals in captivity, providing optimal

veterinary care, achieving long-term changes for farm animals, effective

stray animals management, wiping out the wildlife trade, running a

sustainable rescue centre, campaigning for change, working with

government agencies, among many others.

 

Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) hosted this

conference where more than 390 delegates from 26 countries, representing

207 organisations attended. The aim of the conference was to achieve

long-term positive change and also focused on developing and

implementing concrete long-term solutions for ongoing animal protection

problems.