DIRECTORY ENTRY: Animal Defenders International

Our group of organisations, Animal Defenders International, the National Anti-Vivisection Society, and the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research, work together globally for the protection of animals.

We have offices in London UK, Los Angeles USA, and Bogota Colombia as well as representatives and partner organisations in many other countries.

We take a unique holistic, self-sufficient approach to achieving long-term protection for animals. We work at all levels, from start to finish of a campaign – from undercover investigations to scientific and economic research, publication of technical reports, through to public education, to drafting and securing legislative protection for animals.

Our animal rescue work is directly linked to campaigns, whether it be animals in entertainment, or those used in laboratories. The scientific and medical research that we fund through the Lord Dowding Fund dovetails perfectly with our campaigns to end animal experimentation.

Whilst others incorporate elements of these approaches we seek to draw together a start to finish strategy – a total campaigning approach. We use our own photographs, video and research, and produce publications in-house. Our total production approach saves money and increases our outreach.

In 2009, two different campaigns exemplified this approach. The first was our Stop Circus Suffering campaign in South America, which led to the historic ban on animal circuses in Bolivia, and saw us go from undercover investigation to national ban, then moving to rescue animals freed by the ban.

The second, our biggest campaign of recent years, was about the new EU regulations on animals experiments. This saw us use almost every element of our operational armoury in a year. Working in multiple languages with investigations, different levels of information, scientific research and briefings on non-animal research, we rapidly responded to an evolving political situation, shaped the legislation with amendments, and even finished the year with a rescue of laboratory monkeys that tied several of the core issues together.

Both campaigns ran over several years – and continue into the new decade – again highlighting our determination to secure long term change.

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