A puppy looks desperately through a chainlink cage full of despondant puppies

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Asia

Humane World for Animals Asia

In South Korea, India and Viet Nam, we work with communities to make lasting change for animals.

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

100

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.

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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.

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People feeding community dogs

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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.

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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.

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Two men carefully handle a snake contained safely within a bag

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A demonstration with careful handling.

Human-wildlife coexistence

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

India South Korea Viet Nam

Highlights from our work

Dogs on a dog meat farm

After more than a decade of advocating with our partners in the region, South Korea banned the dog meat trade—and we’re working to end it across Asia.

A hen at a Viet Name farm perches outside a box.

With our input, An Phu Farm became Viet Nam’s first farm-to-fork food store chain to switch to cage-free eggs and crate-free pork in its supply chain.

In collaboration with the Liana Trust, we recently introduced a first-of-its-kind WhatsApp chatbot for snakebite awareness in Karnataka.

Cat rescued from the cat meat trade in Viet Nam

As part of our Models for Change program, we helped the owner of a cat fattening and slaughter facility transition to growing tea, guava and pomelo instead.

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