We are animal welfare and environmental protection organization with a strong will to end animal cruelty and protect our environment from everyday human devastative actions. We are a group of effective altruists from a different professional background, working with a collaborative spirit towards shared responsibilities.

Our ideas are dynamic in nature, yet specific. We take action across key issues affecting animals, humans, and our immediate environment. Our work span animal welfare, environmental health, climate change, effective altruism, and sustainable agriculture through plant-based food systems.

Because we believe everything that has life is sentient, which also includes animals, therefore, we strive to ensure animals are equally treated on the grounds of social justice, respect and compassion, by taking actions across humane education, corporate and institutional campaigns, research, policy and governance.

Because we believe all life forms coexist in different habitats surrounded by the same environment, therefore, we work to ensure the environment is not polluted by human actions due to negligence or deliberate action. We take actions across biodiversity enrichment, preventive measures against agricultural chemicals and other industrial pollutants, public health awareness on zoonotic diseases and pandemics, and awareness on environmental-friendly and sustainable food systems.

Because we believe human actions like animal exploitation, and carbon and forest footprints contribute to climate change, we work to ensure that in the discharge of our duties, we carry communities along in the fight against climate change through awareness, education, adaptations, and preventions.

Because we believe in the principles of EA and ideas, we work to ensure our work ethics reflect these principles which are: commitment to others, openness, integrity, scientific mindset, and collaborative spirit. And also work around EA ideas which are existential risk, emerging techs, effective mindset, and expanding compassion. We do this through capacity building and applying the EA principles around work ethics.

Because we believe in the United Nations Sustainability goals, we ensure our work reflects some of the sustainable goals like climate action, life on land, zero hunger through alternative protein and sustainable food systems, life below water, and partnership for the goals.

The convener and founder of APON is AMB. Joseph Odika. He was conferred a climate Ambassador by WeDIDit Health, a US-based health and wellness organization. His interest in animal welfare and protection started in 2012, then as a publisher of a polo sports magazine. A column in his magazine known as ‘Poloplus Magazine’ was dedicated to pony welfare after he witnessed a young stallion die from a fatal limb injury during one of the polo games he was capturing. A few years later – he expanded the article to cover all animals. And in October 4^th of 2019, he founded the Animal Protection Organization of Nigeria.

AMB. Joseph is one man too many. He works with the strength of 10 men put together. He has role-modeled leadership roles beyond human comprehension.  He has fearlessly spearheaded protests and campaigns against big brands in Nigeria alongside his brave and dedicated volunteers who always roll in their teeming numbers.

As a dynamic young and vibrant vegan, he has been spreading the vegan message across sections of people and institutions to address the menace of factory farming and the impact of carbon and forest footprints, and how to upscale interventions.