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25 Years of Disaster Relief
The extensive knowledge, expertise and reach of WSPA enable us to react immediately to these unpredictable events. Responses include urgent veterinary treatment, the containment of diseases, mobile clinics and the rebuilding of destroyed infrastructure. In the mid 1980s, WSPA treated thousands of animals affected by a poisonous gas leak in Bhopal, India and stray dogs caught up in an earthquake in Mexico. Such work continued throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s, in such diverse situations as floods in Thailand, hurricanes in the Americas, earthquakes in India and in post-conflict Kosovo.
The 2004 tsunami in Asia caused widespread devastation. In the aftermath, WSPA’s mobile clinics in Sri Lanka and Thailand provided large-scale anti-rabies vaccines, sterilisation of stray dogs and livestock treatments. Immensely popular with the local community, the clinics still operate, treating tens of thousands of animals each year. Well into 2006, WSPA was still engaged in rebuilding destroyed veterinary clinics in Kashmir, which were lost in 2005’s earthquake. No-one can predict what the future holds, but WSPA continues to respond to both man made and natural disasters, wherever animals’ lives and their well being are put at risk. Read more about WSPA’s disaster relief work >>
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The past 25 years have seen WSPA helping animals caught up in emergency situations across the world. 
In 2005 alone, WSPA responded to hurricanes in Mexico, the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, floods in India and Romania and a volcanic eruption in El Salvador.