Goals and Functions

update:06-07-13 16:48:20

Goals

Through animal protection, salvation, adoption and public education activities, to promote the legislation for animal protection, eliminate the practice of abusing animals, to cultivate consciousness about love and care for animals, respect for all life and environmental conservation.

Functions

Rescue and Protection

The primary function of the center is to provide shelter and to seek the best possible living conditions for animals in difficulty. The center tries its best to save, give medical treatment to, and care for deserted and homeless animals. The center accepts the responsibility for the spraying and neutering of animals, performing vaccinations and providing regular health checks to adopted animals in the shelter. In addition, it makes strenuous attempts to find new caring owners.




Educating and Training
Through educational programs such as lectures, posters, media exposure, editorial columns and special activities, the center constantly urges ordinary people to respect life and to love animals. It also advocates the use of scientific methods of medically treating animals. The center¡¯s ultimate wish is to see the emergence of a wholly friendly society which accepts the rightness of protecting nature, caring for animals and respecting life in general. To Zhang Luping, there is nothing utopian about these aims. She is convinced that even the most fundamental of attitudes can be changed through education and role models. And she is adamant that pets are as entitled to ¡°home comforts¡± and loving care as humans.


Promotion of Animal Protection Legislation
Along with more and more animal abusing cases are exposed through various media channels in China, promotion of animal protection legislation has become the most important function of BHAEEC for the current stage. Zhang Luping hopes to team up with as many as possible the organizations and people who share the same goal as hers, in order to realize the promulgation of animal protection laws in China. She has spent most of her time appealing to the Chinese government and the public for the legislation, by giving lectures in the universities, being interviewed by a great number of international and domestic media, attending the related seminars organized by the government, and assisting in the submission of the related proposals to the People¡¯s Congress.