About

About — ARTEMIS

About Artemis

Two friends.
One sea.
A problem
worth solving.

Artemis is a Swiss-based association founded in 2026 by Abood and Eric — two friends who love the Mediterranean, who love animals, and who decided that loving something isn’t enough. That practical work is what’s needed.

We are not researchers. We are not lobbyists. We don’t write reports about the crisis and file them away. We fund sterilizations, document the results, and build the financial infrastructure that turns individual compassion into collective, measurable action.

The Origin

Every stray cat on a harbour wall in Greece is living a daily struggle. Every unsterilized female in a colony is producing a generation of animals who will live and die in the same conditions. And somewhere nearby, there is almost certainly a volunteer — underfunded, exhausted, paying vet bills out of her own pocket — who already knows exactly what to do and simply lacks the resources to do it at scale. That gap is where Artemis was born.

Abood and Eric met through a shared love of the Mediterranean. Years of travelling along its coastlines — through the islands of Greece, across the shores of Cyprus, along the southern edges of Europe — gave them something beyond the obvious pleasures of the sea and the light. It gave them an unavoidable proximity to one of the region’s most persistent, most visible, and most solvable problems.

Stray animals are everywhere in the Mediterranean. Not as a charming local detail — as a genuine crisis of suffering and ecological pressure. Every colony left unmanaged grows. Every generation of unsterilized cats and dogs compounds the problem. Every municipality that relies on impoundment or culling watches its stray population regenerate within weeks, unchanged, at considerable cost, with nothing to show for it.

The science of TNR — Trap, Neuter, Return — has been clear for decades. It works. A sterilized animal holds its territory, blocks new arrivals, and stops reproducing. Over three to five years, a managed colony shrinks naturally, humanely, permanently. The knowledge exists. The methodology exists. The willing volunteers exist.

What is almost universally missing is the financial infrastructure to connect willing donors with the people doing the work — and the documentation infrastructure to make that connection credible, transparent, and repeatable. That is what Artemis was built to provide.

Why practical work

There are people who care deeply about Mediterranean stray animals and express that care through awareness, through sharing, through occasional donations to organizations where the money disappears into a black hole of administrative opacity. We respect that impulse. But we wanted to do something different.

We wanted to build something where every euro is traceable — from the moment a sponsor clicks a button, to the moment a vet certificate photo arrives from a colony in Crete. No vague goodwill. No unverified impact. Just documented, permanent, repeatable interventions.

Why TNR and not rescue

Rescue is noble. We have enormous respect for the shelters and the volunteers who dedicate their lives to it. But rescue alone cannot solve the problem — it manages individuals while the source population keeps growing. TNR attacks the source. It is the only intervention with a documented, sustained population-reduction effect. We focus on it entirely, without apology.

Why Switzerland

We are based in Switzerland because that is where we live and work. The Swiss legal framework for associations is clear, robust, and internationally recognised — which matters when we seek partnerships with European municipalities, hotel groups, and corporate ESG teams. Where we are based is not where we work. We work in the Mediterranean.

We love the Mediterranean. We love animals. And we decided those two things together were not enough — that what the situation needed was not more people who cared, but people who could build something that works.

— Abood & Eric, founders of Artemis

Built by two people.
Intended to scale far beyond them.

People don’t give money to organisations. They give money to people they trust. So here we are.

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Operational Director

Abood

Switzerland · Co-founder


Abood is the engine of Artemis’s day-to-day operations. As Operational Director, he manages the relationship network with NGO partners — coordinating the colony updates, triggering sterilization payment transfers, maintaining the documentation archive, and ensuring that every sponsor receives exactly what they were promised, on time.

His connection to the Mediterranean runs deep. Years of travel along its coastlines shaped both an affection for the region and an increasingly difficult relationship with what he kept seeing on its streets and harbour walls. The gap between the scale of the suffering and the availability of a proven, affordable solution struck him as the kind of thing that demands a practical response, not a philosophical one.

Artemis is that response. He runs it with the organisational precision and personal commitment that the work requires — not because it is easy, but because the alternative is looking away. And he has never been able to do that.

📍 Based in Ghaza
⚙️ Responsible for NGO coordination, payment transfers, sponsor documentation, and colony database management
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Secretary General

Eric

Switzerland · Co-founder


Eric leads the strategic and institutional direction of Artemis as Secretary General. He oversees the association’s legal structure, external partnerships, and the broader framework that makes it credible — both to the NGOs who trust us with their visibility, and to the professional partners, municipal governments, and corporate ESG teams we work with.

His relationship with the Mediterranean is both personal and professional. The region is not an abstraction to him — it is a place he has returned to repeatedly, each time made more aware of the quiet, persistent crisis playing out on its streets, its islands, and its harbour fronts. That awareness eventually crossed a threshold from concern into the conviction that something concrete could be done.

His role in Artemis is to make sure the organisation is built well enough to outlast its founders — that its model is replicable, its documentation is credible, and its partnerships are built on real trust rather than good intentions alone.

📍 Based in Switzerland
⚙️ Responsible for legal structure, strategic partnerships, institutional communications, and long-term organisational development

Why Artemis?

Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, of the wilderness, and of the protection of animals. She is one of the oldest deities in the Greek pantheon — predating the Olympic tradition — and is associated above all else with the natural world and its creatures.

The name was not chosen for its mythology alone, but for its geography. Artemis is a Greek name, for a Greek crisis, founded by people who love the Mediterranean. The connection is direct and honest.

There is also something fitting in the image of the huntress as protector. TNR is not passive charity. It is an active, targeted, strategic intervention — carried out in the field, in colonies, with precision and documentation. Artemis draws a bow. So, in its own way, does this association.

Ἄρτεμις

Ancient Greek · Ártēmis

Goddess of the wilderness.
Protector of wild animals.
Patron of those who care for them.

What We Stand For

Three things we will never compromise on.

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Radical transparency

Every euro is traceable. We publish the split between what goes to vets and what funds the platform on every page of this website. We provide vet certificates and follow-up photos for every sterilization. If we can’t prove something happened, we don’t claim it did.

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Disciplined focus

We do one thing: fund and document TNR sterilization programmes. Not rescue. Not rehoming. Not awareness campaigns. One method, proven by peer-reviewed research, executed with rigour. Breadth is the enemy of impact. We stay narrow and go deep.

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Genuine partnership

We are not better than the NGOs we work with. We are different. They have the field expertise, the vet relationships, and the animal knowledge. We have the financial infrastructure and the marketing capacity. Neither works without the other. We remember that.

Why This Matters

Two reasons. Both are real.

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Daily suffering, at massive scale

A stray cat on a Mediterranean street is not living a romantic, free life. It is navigating hunger, disease, injury, predation, traffic, and the constant pressure of reproduction. Its kittens will face the same conditions, and their kittens after them. This is not suffering at the margins. It is suffering at industrial scale, across millions of animals, every day.

We are not sentimental about this. The mathematics of unmanaged stray populations are stark, and the experience of each individual animal within them is worse. TNR is the only intervention that addresses both — reducing the total number of animals exposed to those conditions, permanently, while treating each existing animal with dignity in the process.

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Real pressure on biodiversity

Unmanaged feral cat and dog populations exert genuine ecological pressure on Mediterranean biodiversity. Feral cats are among the most effective predators of small birds, reptiles, and rodents in island ecosystems — environments that evolved without them and have no natural defences against sustained predation pressure at scale.

This is not a marginal concern. Island biodiversity is disproportionately important globally — Mediterranean islands host a high concentration of endemic species found nowhere else. Unmanaged stray populations represent a persistent, compounding threat to that biodiversity. TNR reduces population size, and with it, that predation pressure — humanely, verifiably, over time.

You’ve read this far.
You know who we are.
Now you know what to do.

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