Farm animals and horses commonly fall into wells, slurry pits and irrigation canals, can be trapped in holes, septic tanks, ditches, mud, water/ice. Villagers resolve entrapments with crude tactics that cause suffering to the animal before its often eventual death. The project's objectives are to establish a long-term cooperation and partnership in the animal rescue domain among the project partners, to establish an animal rescue training center in the Aksaray AFAD Directorate and to develop the small and large animal rescue capacities of the Aksaray and Kilis Directorates through the establishment of a UK-originating animal rescue model, to decrease injured rescuer numbers during incidents, to decrease animal losses during rescue events and economical losses of animal husbandry and to increase public awareness on animal rescue and to improve animal welfare. The Project coordinator, Aksaray AFAD Directorate is a apublic body responsible in managing and coordinating emergencies and disasters in the region. Our EU partners are the British Animal Rescue and Trauma Care Association (BARTA) Association and the University of Ghent. Our local partners are Aksaray University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Kilis AFAD Directorate. Staff of Aksaray and Kilis AFAD Directorates are to be trained in the UK, and subsequently to establish an animal rescue training center in Aksaray, with the support of the Universities of Ghent an Aksaray. This center is aimed at training experts from the region and other regions and in collaboration on a long-term basis as a training and excellence center at national and European levels. This activity is the cornerstone of the project because these trained skilled personnel will give basic animal rescue training to local veterinarians, firefighters and search and rescuers in Turkey. Following local training, practical experimental rescue events will be performed to increase flexibility of new animal rescue teams. Two animal rescue teams will be established from search and rescuers of Aksaray and Kilis AFAD. Furthermore, international animal rescue conference will be held in Aksaray with the participation of local and foreign partners. The project has been planned for completion in two years.