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Animal Defenders International, or ADI, operates wide-ranging animal welfare campaigns worldwide, provides advice to governments, works to secure progressive animal protection legislation, and works practically by rescuing animals and rehoming them at their wildlife sanctuary.

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New petition to call on the World Health Organization, national governments, and scientific community worldwide to prioritize and support research into COVID-19 which uses advanced non-animal scientific methods, relevant to humans.

Join the call to cut Animal Tests to tackle COVID-19!

10 December 2020

An open letter, spearheaded by ADI, is calling for the use of non-animal research methods in the search for a vaccine for COVID-19. Although animal testing is not required, and often unreliable, it is still taking place globally.

ADI urges WHO to cut animal tests to tackle COVID-19

16 November 2020

An open letter spearheaded by Animal Defenders International (ADI) and signed by nearly 100 experts, academics, and other concerned parties is calling for advanced non-animal research methods to be prioritised to accelerate the discovery and use of effective vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.

Animal tests may impede progress of COVID-19 treatments, experts say

Ahead of World Day for Laboratory Animals on 24 April 2020, Animal Defenders International (ADI) has launched a petition calling for governments to prioritise and support advanced methods, more relevant to humans, to accelerate the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.

Cut animal tests to tackle COVID-19

Ahead of Fur Free Friday, an international day of action held on November 29, celebrities are speaking out in support of the campaign by Animal Defenders International (ADI) to stop the suffering of animals bred, trapped, and killed for their fur.

Celebrities say no to fur, as Etsy urged to step away from cruel trade

25 November 2019

New Home Office figures on the use of animals in research in Britain reveal that, despite there being better, humane alternatives available, 2,472 primates were experimented on last year – an increase of 12% on the previous year.

Help save primates from suffering in British labs

18 September 2019

This International Primate Day on September 1, Animal Defenders International is calling on the UK Government to explain the huge increase in the number of monkeys born to wild-caught parents used in research.

International Primate Day 2019

The limitations of animal experimentation in improving human healthcare is overwhelming, but more than 11 million animals are still used in research every year in the EU alone.

New book proposes ways to move away from animal experimentation

A timely resource which critically evaluates the use of animals in science and explores innovative non-animal approaches to replace their use is to launch with a special one-day conference in London on 8th March.

Timely review of “misleading” animal research to launch with London conference

29 January 2019

Ahead of International Primate Day on 1 September, Animal Defenders International (ADI) has released video footage of the routine suffering primates at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, experience before the experiments even begin.

ANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL: Undercover video shows routine suffering of primates at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in the Netherlands

Former Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey Circus big cat trainer Alexander Lacey is back performing in Europe following his controversial departure from the US last month.

The show sadly goes on for ex-Ringling big cats in Europe.

18 October 2017

ADI investigation reveals the misery of Chipperfield’s lions and tigers as Government stalls on promise to ban wild animal circuses.

Lions and tigers are left behind by broken promises

29 November 2016