Animal Defenders International

 

Animal Defenders International

ADI celebrates 20 years in the US

It has been two decades since ADI opened our US and Latin America operations, and both have worked closely ever since. With your help we have exposed suffering, campaigned, and saved hundreds of animals. There is still much to do but your support has seen victories as circuses have gone animal free, exposed brutal training of elephants for movies, laboratory investigations, cosmetic testing bans, fur farming investigations, laws to protect animals, entire countries emptied of circus animals and the founding of the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa, a place of loving kindness for our circus survivors. We have shared the lives of some incredible animals like Cholita, Pepe, Mufasa, Leo and many, many more. Here’s a little trip down memory lane with a few of the things we have achieved together. Thank you for being a part of the journey. Perhaps you’d like to organize an event like these, described in the captions.

Help us achieve more in the next 20 years

Animal Rescues


Having secured and helped enforce an animal circus ban in Bolivia, ADI returned to Latin America to assist the authorities in Peru and Colombia. Over 100 animals were rescued during Operation Spirit of Freedom. In 2018 ADI launched Operation Liberty in Guatemala, and in November 2019 and January 2020 flew 20 rescued tigers and lions to Big Cat Rescue in Florida and the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa. In 2023, we brought Ruben, the lonely lion in Armenia, to the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary, and we are working to do the same for five lions in Kuwait.