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Regional Focal Points

Design Against Fur is hosted on behalf of the Fur Free Alliance by the following organizations and FFA affiliates:

AUSTRALIA & ASIA PACIFIC

Humane Society International Australia is a large, supporter-based national organisation that maintains an ongoing and high profile campaign to keep fur out of Australia. Its primary vehicle for doing this is their Annual Faux Fur Fashion Show, celebrating fashion without real fur. HSI has gained pledges from the majority of Australia's fashion designers not to use fur, and the Show is also to thank designers for their support. HSI exposed the sale of fur fashion items that featured dog and cat fur imported from Asia. This resulted and is Australia banning the import of dog and cat fur. HSI also concentrates on wildlife and habitat protection issues in Australia and regionally, and maintains a small grants program to help NGOs in the Asia/Pacific Region.

NOTE: For the 2005 competition, Australian students will be included in the Europe and International Regional Competition. However, for your convenience, you may mail your posters to Humane Society International in Avalon to arrive at their office on 30 April 2005 (to courier to the UK) or you can mail them directly to Respect for Animals, in the United Kingdom, but please plan for your poster to arrive in the UK by your submission deadline 30 April 2005.

Contact
Melanie Kealley, Design Against Fur! Humane Society International, P.O. Box 439, Avalon NSW 2107.
e-mail: Designagainstfur@hsi.org.au
web: www.hsi.org.au

CANADA

Global Action Network is a nationally incorporated, Canadian non-profit organization, dedicated to animal and environment protection. We believe that animals, the environment, and human welfare are inextricably linked. Simply put, animal abuse and the destruction of our environment has an ultimate consequence—the degradation of the human species. An official member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals and the Fur Free Alliance, Global Action Network campaigns against the fur trade through education, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and political networking.

GAN is acting as a Design Against Fur Regional Focal Point for the Canada round of the 2005 contest.

Contact
Andrew Plumbly, Design Against Fur, Global Action Network, 372 St. Catherine Street, Suite 308, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A2.
Tel: 514 939- 5525
e-mail: Designagainstfur@gan.ca
web: www.gan.ca

EUROPE & INTERNATIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND

Respect for Animals is a non-governmental organization dedicated solely to campaigning against the cruel and unnecessary international fur trade. Respect for Animals (and Lynx before it) believes fur farming and trapping to be morally indefensible.

Respect for Animals is acting as a Design Against Fur Regional Focal Point for the UK & Ireland, Europe & International rounds of the 2005 contest.

Contact
Nicki Brooks, Design Against Fur, Respect for Animals, PO Box 6500, Nottingham NG4 3GB, U.K.
Tel: +44 115 952 54 40
Fax: +44 115 940 47 46
e-mail: Designagainstfur@respectforanimals.org
web: www.respectforanimals.org

UNITED STATES

The Humane Society of the United States is the largest animal protection organization in the USA, launching major programs to foster respect and compassion towards domestic and wild animals and their environments, through investigation, rehabilitation, public education, political and consumer advocacy, and litigation. Fur-Free Century is The HSUS’s consumer-driven, activist-oriented campaign to end the use of animal fur in the new century.

HSUS is acting as a Design Against Fur Regional Focal Point for the United States round of the 2005 contest.

Contact
Design Against Fur! Coordinator, The Humane Society of the United States, 2100 L St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037
Tel: 301 258 3109
Fax: 301 258 3080
e-mail: Designagainstfur@hsus.org
web: www.hsus.org www.furfreeaction.org www.protectseals.org

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