The Animal Protection Agency - APA

The Animal Protection Agency (APA) works to ensure the safety, welfare and humane treatment of animals in film and television production. Trusted by Disney, Amblin, 20th Century, Lionsgate, Netflix and many others, we are a professional, responsive organization whose expert on-site Animal Safety Consultants are highly qualified to perform the distinct requirements needed for this specialized work. We promote updated on-set Animal Welfare and Safety by combining a unique perspective of "best practices" to the field and in training standards, and offer a contemporary, progressive process of on-set animal safety and humane treatment protocols benefiting both the animals and production. We have diligently evolved safety fundamentals to include an advanced approach to ensure that all animal-action is safely achieved. We celebrate animals and their relationships with people, firmly beleiving that animals should be firmly ensconced in our world, that we should embrace and celebrate them and always in a manner that is respectful and safe.

The Animal Protection Agency (APA), is fully sanctioned and approved by the entertainment industry with our On-Set Consultants working around the globe to protect animals in Film, Television and Streaming productions. Each of APA’s Animal Safety Consultants combine in-depth animal knowledge with a thorough background in production work and have a broad understanding of animal welfare with a superior ability to predict and minimize inherent risks involved on-set. In addition to our core mission and responsibilities, APA offers our Positive Pawprint program, which collaborates with productions and studios to foster and advance local community animal welfare programs in locations where production films and APA has worked with production on set. These benefits can include supporting shelters, animal rescue groups, wildlife rehab, endangered species, zoo conservation missions, etc. We believe this engenders not only important fundamental animal education and welfare efforts, but also a benefits regions all over the world by literally leaving behind A Positive Pawprint. APA is the only Animal Safety/Welfare Oversight Agency to offer this type of philanthropic asset.