Brooke has approved an emergency grant to provide water, food and essential veterinary care to an estimated 312 horses, donkeys and mules that, along with their owners, have been worst affected by Guatemala’s Fuego volcano eruptions on 3 and 6 June 2018.
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Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys attended the 86th World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) General Session this week, 20 – 25 May, championing the needs of working animals.
Local communites help reduce donkey theft in Kenya by entering "Protect your donkey and win" competition.
Dr Mactar Seck has been presented with a prestigious animal welfare award from the World Veterinary Association and CEVA for his veterinary work with equine welfare charity Brooke.
The world’s furthest reaching welfare assessment tool for horses, donkeys and mules, developed by Brooke has been published by PLOS ONE, the research journal.
Brooke has launched an Every Horse Remembered pin badge to mark the end of the First World War, and announced ambassadors for the campaign.
Harry Meade, Alice Oppenheimer and Laura Renwick joined Hannah Russell and Little Alf the miniature Shetland, as well as US Instagram sensation Muledragger as Every Horse Remembered Ambassadors.
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery.
Brooke has been granted Specialized Consultative Status with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO).
Brooke, Action for Working Horses and Donkeys has now rolled out the second version of the BrookeCheck tablet app to staff in India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Kenya, and greatly expanded the functionality of the software.
At the end of 2017 Brooke held its first Global Animal Health Exchange.