AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection (AAP)

AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection is an European animal welfare organization based in The Netherlands. Relying on 50 years of experience rescuing and rehabilitating exotic mammals from all over Europe, we run professional rescue facilities in The Netherlands and in Spain.

Based on our expertise, we advocate for better animal welfare legislation to prevent the suffering of exotic animals in Europe. One of AAP’s long-term strategic goals is to end the suffering of exotic mammals being kept as pets in the EU. Germany is the EU Member State where the problem of exotic pet keeping is estimated to be the biggest, not only in number of animals but also in the variety of species being traded and kept. AAP is a proponent of creating a Positive List at the national level, eventually leading to a EU-wide Positive List, as a sustainable solution to this issue.