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Namigni Animal Sanctuary's Toro Bravo Reserve, the world’s only Spanish fighting-bull sanctuary, rescued 8 bulls and cows in Colombia before the 2027 bullfighting ban. Read the rescue story. Namigni Animal Sanctuary has rescued eight Spanish fighting bulls and cows from slaughter in Colombia — the largest single rescue of fighting cattle we know of anywhere in the world. The eight are now safe for life at the Reserva del Toro Bravo, less than a year before Colombia’s bullfigh

By Miguel Aparicio, Founder, Namigni Animal Sanctuary A Spanish fighting cow escaped Spain's Minglanilla festivities and faces slaughter. Namigni Animal Sanctuary has offered to buy her and give her a home in Colombia. This young Spanish fighting cow escaped from a popular bullfighting event in Minglanilla, Spain A young Spanish fighting cow who escaped during the festivities in Minglanilla, Spain, on 15 August 2026 was found days later on a nearby farm and now faces being pu

By Miguel Aparicio, Founder, Namigni Animal Sanctuary In short: Colombia’s Ley 2385 of 2024 — the “No Más Olé” law — bans bullfighting nationwide, with full effect from July 2027. In September 2025 the Constitutional Court upheld it unanimously and extended it to corralejas, steer-tailing (coleo) and cockfighting. The law is firm and not in question. But it planned only for the people and the venues; it made no plan for the animals themselves. That gap has already pushed fig

By Miguel Aparicio, Founder, Namigni Animal Sanctuary · Clinical review: Dr. Carlos Mario Jaramillo, DVM, bovine medicine In short: Safe handling of fighting bulls rests on a counterintuitive truth: you cannot overpower an animal that answers force with force, so you lead it instead. The two oldest tools are not steel. They are cabestros — trained, castrated oxen the bulls follow and respect, which calm the herd through its own gregarious instinct — and food, used every day

By Miguel Aparicio, Founder, Namigni Animal Sanctuary · Clinical review: Dr. Carlos Mario Jaramillo, DVM, bovine medicine In short: Not in the way most people think. The fighting bull was bred for one narrow trait — bravura, the tendency to face and charge a perceived threat instead of fleeing — not for general hostility. In a calm setting, free of provocation, it is a nervous, territorial, space-loving animal, not a monster. The real danger is a frightened bull, not an “agg

By Miguel Aparicio, Founder, Namigni Animal Sanctuary In short: The fighting bull, the toro de lidia, is not defined by how it looks but by how it behaves — and genetically it is not one breed but several. Geneticists call it a "metabreed": its lineages, the encastes, are more distinct from one another than many separate cattle breeds are. It also carries some of the oldest blood in domestic cattle. That combination makes each line non-substitutable: lose one, and no breedin

In July 2027, Colombia's bullfighting ban will take full effect. Yet amid the celebrations and political debate, one critical question has been largely ignored: what happens to the bulls and cows themselves?

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Discover why animal rights movements become weaker when politically tribalized, and why animal protection must become a universal priority across the entire political spectrum to create lasting change for animals.

The animal rights movement must reject antisemitism, political polarization, and division while honoring the contributions of Jewish, Israeli, Arab, and Muslim activists working for animals worldwide.

Discover why Namigni Animal Sanctuary believes animal protection must move beyond traditional activism toward practical, economically viable solutions that replace systems of animal exploitation. Animal Rights Solutionism vs. Activism: Building Real Alternatives for Animals For decades, animal protection movements around the world have largely operated through a familiar formula: Raise awareness. Expose cruelty. Protest industries. Pressure governments. Campaign for bans. The

Explore how evolving animal protection laws in Colombia are unintentionally putting fighting bulls, fighting roosters, and protection dogs at risk through abandonment, slaughter, and lack of rehabilitation programs — and how Namigni Animal Sanctuary is responding through its Gladiator Rescue initiative.

For many people around the world, Colombia’s decision to ban bullfighting was celebrated as a historic victory for animals. On paper, it appeared to represent progress toward a more compassionate future and the eventual end of a controversial practice that has generated debate for decades across Latin America and Europe. But beneath the headlines and political celebrations, another reality has quietly unfolded — one that very few people are discussing. The sad truth is that C