A year ago today, Dhubiya, Saif, Aziza, Muheeb, Shujaa and Saham were in Kuwait needing a new home – abandoned victims of the illegal wildlife pet trade recaptured and living temporarily in Kuwait Zoo.
Continue readingThank you from 6 young lions
On the move at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary
ADIWS now has a fleet of four fully electric Blitz Cruiser vehicles for animal care and maintenance. This follows the Sanctuary becoming fully solar with over 100 solar panels providing our power. Each Cruiser has a solar panel roof so they are self-charging.
Continue readingUp close with rescued lions, tigers and pigs
We had a great evening on Wednesday LIVE from the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary, South Africa. You never know who you’ll encounter as we take a stroll around the sanctuary on these live events and on Wednesday evening we got to meet quite a few residents as we treated them to delicious ice-lollies.
Continue readingRunning wild
One of the most magical things when rescuing lions and tigers is seeing them finally run at full speed and keep going. ADI rescued Stripes (pictured) from a circus in Guatemala where the tigers were living in cages about the size of queen-sized beds. At the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary, they have the space to run and express themselves. If a lion or a tiger cannot run like this, then the cage or enclosure is too small.
Here comes the summer
It’s spring in South Africa at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary and we can feel summer is on its way (December); the sun is shining, the first rains have started to turn the landscape green, and Stripes is playing ball in the pool!
Continue readingThe master of relaxation
Rolex, son of the beloved and dearly missed Leo and Muñeca, has been a resident of the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary since we built it, 5 years ago.
Rescued from a circus in Peru with his family, he was saved on the very first day of ADI’s Operation Spirit of Freedom in 2014, a mission enforcing Peru’s ban on wild animals in circuses. His mother and sisters were brought to safety a few months later.
ADI emptied every cage in this rescue mission lasting almost two years and saving over 100 animals including 33 lions!
ADIWS residents enjoy a watermelon snack
The ADI Wildlife Sanctuary is most commonly known as a refuge for ex-circus lions and tigers. But it is also home to many other species of animals, including goats and sheep who have been rescued from different abuses.
Continue readingOur bigs love to play
Like most felines, our big cats LOVE to play. Whether they’re leaping and bounding around their platform, playing hide and seek in the tall grasses or rolling about in mounds of hay, they never say no to a little fun!
Continue readingYour donations have helped us plant over 200 trees!
When we first purchased the 455 acres of land for our sanctuary in South Africa, much of it was barren from agriculture and grazing.
It needed a lot of work to make it a luxurious home for our rescued wildlife.
Continue readingHappy rescue anniversary Max and Stripes!
Six years on from that junkyard rescue in Guatemala: how do you think Max and Stripes are doing?
The circus had been in hiding for months, but on November 10th 2018, an ADI team entered a junkyard with police and wildlife officials to rescue six month old Max and Stripes and four other tigers – all destined for the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa. Given a nutritious diet since the rescue the boys have grown bigger than all of the adult tigers saved that day. Today, they are confident, playful, roam acres of natural habitat with pools in Kakato Habitat and still live next to their mom Lupe.
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