International Wildlife Coalition Trust

The International Wildlife Coalition Trust, IWCT, was founded in 1992 to promote Whale and Elephant conservation. In 1998, we learnt about the unspeakable cruelty and brutality of the dog meat trade in the Philippines and as a result we began a campaign to tackle the appalling trading and slaughter of dogs for meat. IWCT has now been working in the Philippines for nearly 25 years. A fundamental part of our efforts in the early years was working with government and law enforcement to bring an end to the barbaric dog meat trade in the Philippines and we played a crucial role in pushing through animal welfare legislation which now means it is illegal to slaughter dogs for human consumption in the Philippines.