Vision, Mission & Values

Vision: Our hope

• An animal-inclusive and disaster resilient New Zealand.

Purpose: Why Animal Evac New Zealand

• To address the significant animal welfare emergency management capability gap
• To protect disaster affected animals in partnership with the community
• To reduce the number animals killed or harmed from the impacts of disaster.

Mission: What we do

1. Advocate for accountable and capable animal-inclusive emergency management laws
2. Benchmark effectiveness of government animal emergency management frameworks
3. Promote animal-inclusive hazard mitigation, emergency preparedness and recovery
4. Support a One Rescue approach, mainstreaming animal disaster rescue as a core public safety function
5. Promote training, conferences research, and professional development in animal disaster management

Values: How we do it

• We are the leading voice for all animals affected by disaster
• We act to do the right thing for the animals in a disaster management context
• We encourage animal inclusive community resilience
• We hold to account those with responsibilities to protect animals from disaster
• We inform our position and activities using best practice and scientific knowledge
• We do not advocate on non-disaster related animal welfare issues.