We are funded on a project-by-project basis by international wildlife groups and a small number of individual donors. While Thailand is a developing nation and the population shows respect for both domestic and wild animals, this enthusiasm is yet to reach a level whereby donations for welfare and conservation activities are forthcoming. International support is therefore vital.

Historically, our society established itself by maintaining and further developing Thailand's main Banglamung facility for confiscated bears in cooperation with the state Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, formerly known as the Royal Forest Department. It was there during 1996 that the World Society for the Protection of Animals designed and built the first large semi-natural habitat enclosure for black bears.

WSPA has continued to fund the work at the Banglamung centre and further funded new enclosures at Omkoi and Mae Hong Son in Thailand's north, and more recently continues to fund the TSCWA's Asiatic black bear reintroduction project.

In the past financial support has also come from the organisations Care for the Wild and Terre-et-Faune, and two significant individual donors, one from Sweden and the other British.

Our audited financial accounts over the years have show the following breakdown of total expenditure:

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