HUHA CHARITABLE TRUST MISSION STATEMENT
“To look at problematic situations that are, or could be, detrimental to an animal and find a safe solution. To always think outside the square. Through education and leading by example, the team of HUHA volunteers aim to empower and inspire people in the community to get involved and do right by animals.”
To date we have been actively involved in finding safe outcomes for thousands of animals including all these things:
Three monkeys we retired from the circus.
Thousands of battery hens liberated from factory farms.
The liberation of Piggy Sue for the Mike King Factory Farmed Pig Campaign on TV3’s Sunday.
Rehabilitated 300 fairy Prions that were exhausted after a storm.
Relocated 150 homeless animals from Christchurch during and after the Earthquakes.
Rescued 21 captive bred Kaimanawas from slaughter.
Liberated 30 Beagles from an Animal Testing Facility.
Re-homed 15 elderly greyhounds from a closed racing facility.
Rescued, rehabilitated and re-homed thousands of community animals in need, including companion and farm animals.
Rehabilitated and released 100’s of native birds.
Four monkeys with nowhere to go after a zoo closed
Eight wallabies with nowhere to go after a zoo closure
Petitioning Parliament – Leave Animals Out of Legal High Testing (May 2013)
Six donkeys rescued from slaughter after the family of their deceased owner sent them to the yards for dog food.
Assisted the Wanganui District Council and community with disestablishing their euthanasia-by-gas facility and establishing a compassionate method via a contract with local veterinary surgeons. HUHA mediated and had round-the-table discussions (and brought some death row dogs back to the sanctuaries as well, of course).
Mange rescue (ongoing) – take in and go out and rescue dogs with mange and in every case, even when owners and veterinarians have felt defeated, we bring these dogs back to health. In particular we salute Shortcake, Tank and Mango (but there are a lot of others, not quite so extreme).
Patrolling waterways in high Summer when low levels of ponds and estuaries produce toxic scum from which bird-life dies of botulism. Rescuing those that can be rescued and disposing of dead bodies left exposed to dogs.
Nelson Bushfires – February 2019: HUHA went down to Nelson as the bush fires took hold there and established a make-shift temporary shelter within 24 hours of arrival. HUHA stayed there for 4 weeks until the last of the 950 animals that were sheltered there through that terrible time had been able to return home.
Australia’s Bushfires – February–March 2020: HUHA volunteers spent two months in Australia at the time of the devastating Australian bushfires and set up three wildlife veterinary triage centres, rescued and gave veterinary assistance to countless wombats, kangaroos, koalas, amongst other suffering creatures, rebuilt enclosures and facilities on three animal carers’ fire-affected properties and established a rehabilitation centre that will see the 1,500km territory of the New South Wales Snowy mountains LAOKO (Looking After Our Kosciuszko Orphans) wildlife rescue team resourced for long-term wildlife burns care.