Animal Academy

The Animal Academy is a nonprofit sanctuary on Fuerteventura that rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes farm animals who have suffered mistreatment and neglect.

Farm animals are too often treated as commodities, left to endure abandonment, injury and abuse. The animals who reach The Animal Academy frequently arrive with untreated illness, physical damage and deep psychological scars from their time in human hands. They need patient, expert care before they can begin to trust again.

Founded by veterinary and animal rescue specialists Julio Cruz and Belen Roca, the sanctuary provides medical treatment, preventive care and the behavioural rehabilitation that traumatised animals need to recover. The team also designs and builds proper enclosures and coordinates rotating volunteers who help with daily care, upkeep and fundraising.