Respect
All animals are treated with respect and compassion and have voices in the law.
Wild, captive, farmed and working animals are free from exploitation and cruelty.
Lawyers for Animal Protection in Africa
We believe that the Law is an effective tool for advocacy.
An African non-profit, registered in Kenya, working at the intersection of law, conservation and technology within the One Health–One Welfare framework.
Vision
A world where the law serves as a tool for animal welfare and conservation.
Mission
To use the law as an advocacy tool to advance animal welfare and conservation.
We recognise the interconnection between human health, animal health and the environment — and we believe the law should work for animals.
What we believeChange we seek
Three shifts that define what success looks like.
Law
The power of law effectively applied.
People have the urgency to protect, using the law as a tool to protect and safeguard the welfare of animals and the environment.
People
Collaboration that empowers change.
Communities, policymakers and organisations working together, using the law as an advocacy tool for a just and sustainable future for biodiversity preservation and conservation.
Our pillars
Each one feeds the other.
Strategic Litigation
We work in the courts to create significant change in law, policy and public awareness — litigating to advance robust legal frameworks that enhance the welfare of animals and safeguard their natural habitats.
Legal Policy & Advocacy
Programmes and projects that highlight systemic gaps in animal welfare and conservation in relation to communities and societies.
Evidence-based action
Turning data
into justice.
From the first seizure report to a courtroom conviction, the Wildlife Information & Tracking System connects every link in the chain — making impunity harder and accountability inevitable.
Under 5%of wildlife crime seizures in Africa ever result in a conviction. The evidence exists — it has simply never been connected.
- Seizures recorded
- 1,380+Seizures recorded
- Offenders tracked
- 2,400+Offenders tracked
- Species monitored
- 150+Species monitored
- Countries active
- 5Countries active
WITS is a LAPA project and opens in a new tab at wits.lapa.africa.
Partners
Strategic direction
By leveraging the law through legal advocacy, evidence-based policy engagement and strategic litigation, we work to dismantle the systemic barriers to animal protection and conservation.
Our public strategic direction — pillars, theory of change and assumptions — is set out in full.
