World Animal Awards A Huge Success

Incheon – South Korea

Our support for the World Veterinary Association’s first ever Animal Welfare Awards proved to be a major success.

We managed filming in six different continents to feature the vets who were named at the Awards ceremony at the 33rd World Veterinary Congress, held in Incheon, South Korea, and Good Call Media’s Nik Wood acted as Master of Ceremonies on stage during the event.

Good Call Media also carried out the filming at the ceremony and over the next few days we will be bringing you the video segments that were recorded and edited in South Korea immediately after the event.

To see the overview video for the Awards, click here.

The Awards were supported by one of our key clients, Ceva Santé Animale. In its press release, the WVA said: As global understanding and concern for animal welfare continues to change, so must the veterinary community evolve to embrace these changes and reflect societal expectations. Animal Welfare is a core mandate of the veterinary community generally and of veterinarians individually. Veterinarians must be engaged, knowledgeable, and prepared to use their skills and expertise in Animal Welfare to assist and support animal caregivers, industry, policy makers and the public to ensure best practices are in place that promote good animal welfare.

The WVA Animal Welfare Awards aim to recognize and reward veterinarians who have provided outstanding and exemplary welfare-related services to animal owners, hostels, fellow veterinarians, and the general public. Each winner will have demonstrated best practices in their consistent commitment to improve and educate about the welfare of animals.

The WVA President, Dr René Carlson said; “The WVA applauds this partnership with CEVA Animal Health to recognize veterinarians from around the world for their efforts to improve animal welfare and eliminate animal suffering. Such recognition is not only important, it is necessary to bring continued awareness to the benefits of good animal welfare for animals, people, and society. It is well recognized that good animal care can have far reaching and positive benefits in a number of areas, including human physical and psychological health, social development, poverty and hunger reduction, disaster management and environmental sustainability.”

For Ceva Santé Animale, Dr. Marc Prikazsky Chairman & CEO said, “I am very proud that as Chairman of Ceva, we are able to accompany the WVA in the creation of these important new awards.; As a veterinarian, I have felt for some time, that the profession needed to bring welfare back to the centre of what we do. Animals contribute enormous value to our society and as veterinarians we have a pivotal role to ensure that their health and welfare is always a priority. I look forward meeting the inaugural winners of the Awards”.