Did anyone get roses for Valentine’s Day? The baby tortoises at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary certainly did! Over 60 baby leopard tortoises seized from traffickers, are growing up in a nursery at ADIWS, and will be released into the wild. Turn up the volume and listen to them munching on their Valentine’s blooms.

Muheeb receives a heart-shaped ice lolly for Valentine’s week at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary.

Dr Peter Caldwell and his team have been at the sanctuary all day checking our residents and giving vaccinations, some eye and teeth checks, and of course, seeing how Muheeb is doing.

Sasha was the first of the lions and tigers to step from a circus cage into our care during ADI’s Operation Liberty enforcing Guatemala’s ban on animal acts. She was limping and had been in pain for years.

Since arriving back at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary Muheeb has remained playful, is active, eating and eagerly coming to take his medications in a little treat. Here is Eleanor Roots, Resident Welfare Trainee, giving Muheeb his meds on Friday.

Muheeb has arrived back at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary after his stay in the Old Chapel Veterinary Hospital where he was diagnosed with cancer. We unloaded him, pleased to see him home, but with heavy hearts – and then as we opened his crate, something wonderful happened.

We have made incredible progress on installation of the new sewage system along with grey water filtration and recycling management, at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa.

Dr Peter Caldwell sedated Muheeb at Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic for tests, X-rays and ultrasounds, to try to establish the cause of Muheeb’s weight loss.