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Rescue News

Our rescued lions taste freedom Caesar and Sarah, the two lions we rescued from a circus in Portugal and took to our South African sanctuary earlier this year, are enjoying life in the bush. No more life...

Entire circus seized in Mozambique

In a dramatic international rescue mission, Animal Defenders International, conservation group Task Force and a local animal rights group in South Africa joined forces to rescue every single animal from...

Freedom for lions and tiger saved from life of circus misery

On 2nd February, following months of negotiation, two lions (Ceasar and Sarah) and a tiger (Tarzan) rescued from a traveling circus in Portugal arrived safely at the ADI Rescue Centre at the Hoedspruit...

Free at last! ADI saves two ex-circus lions and a tiger

Operation Big Cat Rescue flies cats to a new life in South Africa Click here to donate online now Animal Defenders International (ADI), the world’s foremost circus investigation and campaign group...

Help us save the lions and tiger

A rescue operation is underway to take two lions and tigers from a life of misery with the circus in Portugal, to live out their lives at the new ADI Rescue Centre in South Africa Last year, we received...

Tiger move

Tigers go to new Home In late July, ADI once more came to the aid of two of the tigers we rescued from the Akef Egyptian Circus nine years ago. Their future became uncertain when the land on which...

ADI secures future for tigers, worth more dead than alive

Two Bengal tigers, whose plight forced new rules to be passed in over 160 countries, have been moved to safety to the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre after spending the past eight years on a game...

The Akef Egyptian Circus and Animal Trafficking

In December 1993, the CITES Secretariat were informed that the previous year, Akef's Egyptian Circus had gone from Egypt to Kenya with two performing chimpanzees and other Appendix I listed animals without...

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