Welcome
Animal Defenders International group is comprised of ADI, NAVS and LDF, and together they work to protect animals from suffering around the globe. As well as running precision-led campaigns for stronger legislative protection, ADI also exposes suffering with undercover investigations, undertakes rescues of animals in distress, and promotes and funds non-animal scientific and medical research to replace unreliable, unethical and unnecessary testing on animals: a progressive and holistic approach to tackling the challenges facing animals in the 21st Century.
ANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL (ADI)
The mission of Animal Defenders International (ADI) is to educate, create awareness, and promote the interest of humanity in the cause of justice, and the suppression of all forms of cruelty to animals; wherever possible to alleviate suffering, and to conserve and protect animals and the environment.
ADI has gained a reputation for achieving well-planned and successful animal rescues from all over the world, bringing animals from distressing environments to safe havens to live out their lives. ADI’s rigorous and meticulous approach to producing scientific reports, an expertise obtained from years of experience working in the legal and political arena, and their groundbreaking and shocking investigations, have firmly established them at the heart of policy-making regarding animal issues
ADI headquarters:
Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SW1P 4QP
Tel: 020 7630 3340
Email: info@ad-international.org
NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY (NAVS)
Every year, millions of animals suffer and die in cruel and futile experiments. The NAVS advocates the prohibition of all animal experiments and, pending the achievement of this aim, we may support partial measures of reform which would provide steps towards the abolition of vivisection. Founded in 1875, the NAVS is the world’s premier anti-vivisection group and produces technical reports, educational material, books and films to highlight the plight of laboratory animals. The NAVS undercover Field Officers work in laboratories and obtain first-hand evidence of animal suffering and poor scientific practice, and its research wing, the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research, funds and supports non-animal scientific and medical research.
World Lab Animal Week, which highlights the suffering of animals in laboratories, is commemorated all over the world each year around 24 April and was founded by NAVS in 1979.
NAVS headquarters:
Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SW1P 4QP
Tel: 020 7630 3340
Email: info@navs.org.uk
LORD DOWDING FUND FOR HUMANE RESEARCH (LDF)
The objectives of the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research are to support, sponsor and fund better methods of scientific and medical research for testing products and curing disease which replace the use of animals; to fund areas of fundamental research which lead to the adoption of non-animal research methodology; to fund, promote and assist medical, surgical and scientific research, learning, and educational training and processes for the purpose of replacing animals in education and training; and to promote and assist any research for the purpose of showing that experiments on animals are harmful or unnecessary to humanity.
Projects have included cancer, Parkinson’s disease, cot death, infertility, computer-aided drug design, MRSA, toxicity testing of dental fillings, microsurgery training, dialysis, toxicity testing, and many more.
Projects funded by the LDF in 2010 include cutting-edge research with human volunteers using the latest neuroimaging technology, an all human blood brain barrier model for research into brain tumours and computer-based educational alternatives on animal use in the teaching of biomedical sciences.
LDF headquarters:
Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SW1P 4QP
Tel: 020 7630 3340
Email: info@ldf.org.uk
