STORY: :: Mistreated animals find a safer home at a Spanish rescue center
:: Villena, Spain
:: January 22, 2025
:: Berta Alzaga, Communication officer, AAP Primadomus
”The idea was always improve the life of animals kept as pets or illegally traded or coming from life in circuses or other forms of entertainment. So what we search is to find out… to give them back the wilderness and naturality as much as possible.”
:: Pedro Gutierrez Grau, Animal care worker, AAP Primadomus
”When they arrive, they are most of the time doing bad, really bad. They are in bad situation, they don’t have any relationships with their species or they have health issues.”
”At the end, we are living, all of us, together in the same place. We had to be aware that we are not just the only ones living here. They have also… they need their own habitat. So it’s really important to take care of their habitat.”
Hundreds of animals housed at AAP Primadomus are lions, caracals, chimpanzees and barbary macaques.
In a rescue operation last December, 12 lions, including nine lion cubs, were moved from a French circus to Spain where they currently undergo treatment.
Once brought into the center, animals go thorough medical check-ups and are placed in a quarantine. They then get into open-air enclosures.
The project initially started with barbary macaques, which according to the organization, were illegally traded from Morocco through the border with Spain.
AAP also works to improve the legislation aimed at banning the use of animals in circuses.
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