Our Objective

To promote kindness towards animals and foster compassionate and responsible stewardship of the natural world to alleviate suffering, counter species extinctions, and promote sustainable living and peace.

Our Goals

1.

Advance public awareness and understanding about the links between biodiversity conservation, sustainability and peace, and to promote activities that address them.

Using public education and policy work at the individual, community, national and international levels, as well as research, PNP will work towards this goal by:

• advancing public understanding of the mounting impacts of human populations, unsustainable consumption and wastefulness on the world’s terrestrial, marine, freshwater, and aerial habitats, which are exemplified by climate change, unprecedented biodiversity loss, food and water scarcity, pollution, human migration, poverty and conflict, as well as poor health and wellbeing.

• promoting environmentally sustainable and ethical lifestyle choices to encourage positive environmental change and reduce the human footprint on the Earth (e.g., through the reduction of food and other waste, a dietary shift towards plant-based foods, discouraging the use of animal products, ensuring economic systems take account of the true environmental costs of consumption patterns, etc.);

• promoting an eco-centric rather than an anthropo-centric world view and inspire a culture of responsible stewardship.

2.

Alleviate the erosion of the earth’s life support systems and its biodiversity through the protection of wild species and habitats, public education, policy work and research.

Using public education and policy work at the individual, community, national and international levels, as well as research, PNP will work towards this goal by:

• protecting and restoring wild animal and plant communities and landscapes and opposing the conversion of natural habitats, in order to maintain vital ecosystem processes and dynamics;

• developing, adopting and promoting appropriate policy instruments to alleviate defaunation, and the exploitation and trade of threatened species;
  

• advancing the creation of interconnected and well-managed wildlife reserves for a significant proportion of the world’s terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats;

• promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources, sustainable green technologies and organic agricultural practices, as well as divestment from fossil fuels and other harmful commercial activities;

• protecting wild animals and their habitat against poaching;

• supporting compliance with and enforcement of wildlife and environmental laws and the investigation and exposure of wildlife and environmental crime;

• engaging civil society, including young people, in the appreciation of nature and non-human species.
  

 3.

Promote kind and oppose cruel behaviour and attitudes towards animals.

Using public education and policy work at the individual, community, national and international levels, as well as research, PNP will work towards this goal by: 

• fostering public understanding of animal sentience, cognition and welfare;
• developing, adopting and promoting appropriate policy instruments that recognise and respect animal sentience and welfare;
• supporting enforcement and compliance of animal welfare laws and investigate and expose related criminal activities;
• fostering public understanding of the links between violence towards animals and humans;
• promoting personal development techniques that address the mental and emotional causes of violence and advance kindness and peaceful conflict resolution.

4.

Provide, or assist in the provision of facilities, veterinary care, protection and rehabilitation for animals in need of care and attention.

To achieve these goals, PNP will:

• establish and support wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facilities around the world;
• establish and support rescue and rehoming facilities for domestic and companion animals around the world;
• provide training in compassionate wildlife and animal care, husbandry and rehabilitation.​