We are Animal Rescue Team TAIWAN, a non-profit civilian group founded in 1995 by Joseph Nee, a retired math teacher, who has been devoted to protecting and rescuing animals in Taiwan for years and now is the leader of the team. Our group was first made up of only three members: Joseph Nee, his wife and their son. Today, it has more and more volunteer workers from all walks of life, including professors, college students, senior high school teachers, businessmen and even housewives.

The main cause of our team is aimed at rescuing wounded animals from injury, the abused from mistreatment, as well as the trapped ones from bondage. The other three objectives are: the birth control of street dogs, seeking shelters for the old, the blind and the handicapped, and the adoption for the homeless young puppies who were abandoned or lost their mothers.

So far, Animal Rescue Team TAIWAN has helped over 3,000 dogs in central and southern Taiwan. To save more lives, we have been purchasing various kinds of animal-care equipment from the United States, Germany and Denmark, such as cat & dog handling gloves, blow-pipes, safeguard traps, nets, muzzles, leashes, stretchers, pole syringes, safety sticks, etc.. With the help of the state-of-the art equipment from around the world, we have solved numerous tough cases in our hardly-possible rescue missions.

To call for the attention and protection of animals, Animal Rescue Team TAIWAN has set up its Chinese website in May 2004, followed by an international version open to the public in July 2005, through which more and more miserable animals have been saved and some lost ones are recovered by their owners. To help control the population of street dogs, we always spare no effort in sharpening the skills by seeking advice from experienced vets and consulting animal experts in local universities or research centers.

It is always our top priority to put an end to the sufferings and misery of poor and helpless animals in Taiwan, but it needs more people to be involved. With your sympathy and assistance, more lives can be saved. With your concern, more animals can survive. With your support, we can certainly do a better job. For Animal Rescue Team TAIWAN, rescue is a sacred mission, yet for animals, it becomes a matter of life or death.

For our featured rescue stories, please refer to our Rescue Missions; to make a donation, please take a look at Make a Donation; to adopt our rescued dogs, please see Cross-ocean Adoption; for any other enquiries, please Contact Us.