Founder’s Story

Ever since childhood, Daniel has loved animals and for over three decades he has been committed to them in various ways. Among other things, he has sat on the federal board for the national animal rights organization Djurens rätt (Animal Rights), ran animal shelters, worked with injured wild animals and between 2005 - 2022 he was the CEO of the organization Djurrättsalliansen (The Animal rights Alliance), which he also founded. In 2023, he started the organization Animalkind, whose main focus is to work against animal experiments. Laboratory animals in particular are a matter of the heart for Daniel, who himself worked undercover at several vivisection laboratories to reveal how the animals are treated behind closed doors.

Among other things, he has been the driving force in closing down all breeders of cats and dogs for animal experiments in Sweden and revealed that the pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca would euthanize around 300 dogs and initiated a campaign to save them. He took the initiative and started a campaign to draw attention to the painful animal experiments on labradors at the University of Gothenburg and managed to get them to stop using dogs. He found out about and started a campaign to stop the intended animal testing laboratory SWECCLIM in Sweden and it was stopped before it was ever started.

Daniel is particularly passionate about the monkeys used in animal experiments. His first demonstration against vivisection he participated in was back in 1991 and was specifically against animal experiments on monkeys in Stockholm and he has continued ever since. One of the things he is most pleased to have accomplished is to have been involved in successfully rescuing the three lab monkeys Bacill, Bacillusk and Baloo from the same laboratory.

His passion and dedication to making the world a better place for all living things has also inspired others to do what they can to help animals. He has also acted as a consultant to many people and groups who wanted to get involved for animals, in Sweden and internationally.

His commitment to the animals does not end with the laboratory animals. In the early 90s, he started the organization Save the dolphins to close Kolmården's dolphinarium and has never stopped fighting for them. He has also strongly committed himself to the country's fur farms and was the driving force in closing the last chinchilla farm in Sweden in 2014 and saving the remaining 243 chinchillas on the farm. Daniel has worked undercover and documented, filmed and photographed inside laboratories, animal factories, fur farms, circuses and zoos - both in Sweden and abroad.

Through his investigative work, he has, among other things, managed to collect evidence that has resulted in fur farms being shut down, sexual abuse of animals banned and animal experiments been halted.

Now the fight for animals continues with Animalkind!