Wild Love Sanctuary
Scaling Compassion Through Evidence-Based Intervention
The Wild Love Sanctuary is a pioneering animal welfare and education centre in Bali, Indonesia, designed as a prototype for global replication. The sanctuary provides a home for rescued animals—including cows, ducks and dogs—while serving as a strategic intervention point for long-term behaviour change in animal advocacy.
Indonesia represents a critical leverage opportunity as the world's 4th most populous country with rapidly expanding animal agriculture. The Sanctuary targets two high-impact groups: children during formative attitude-development years through academic partnerships, and local community members who can then become grassroots advocates.
This dual approach creates both immediate cultural shifts and long-term multiplier effects, as international families return to their home countries. Guests will be invited to access a fully natural environment to explore and deepen their connection with animals. As well as enjoy opportunities to embrace a variety of wild visitors, including birds, squirrels, dragonflies, butterflies and a host of other wonderful insects.
Wild Love will be located near an international school that focuses on sustainability and regeneration. It is being developed with the local community in mind, in order to provide opportunities to the villagers. It will also function as a creative space and research hub, with programming that combines direct rescue with systematic education.
Through weekly school workshops, seasonal retreats and community engagement events, each program is designed with measurable outcomes in mind, optimising the sanctuary's own impact and building an evidence base for the broader animal welfare movement.
Founded and led by Michelle and Pablo, who bring both personal dedication and long-term vision, the Sanctuary represents their commitment to building scalable, culturally grounded models for fostering compassion toward all sentient beings.
Michelle has a background in Urban Regeneration through her Master's Degree from The University of Westminster in London, and her Programme and Project management experience working for a national regeneration agency and management consultancy in the UK. She then went on to graduate from The University of Cambridge, where she developed her ideas on Creativity Theory, Philosophy and History.
Pablo is a lifelong animal welfare advocate, with both under and postgraduate degrees, and a general background in Communications. Leveraging his academic and professional experience, Pablo will lead a research-backed program at the Sanctuary to increase understanding —and enhance communication with— all non-human animals.
The Wild Love Sanctuary in Bali also serves as a grassroots prototype for a broader vision: an emergent global network of sanctuaries dedicated to transforming attitudes toward nonhuman animals. Once the Bali project is established, the goal is to expand to other locations, starting in New Zealand and Mexico (Michelle and Pablo's home countries), so that the prototype can be replicated at a global scale.
In the meantime, connections are also being developed with like-minded sanctuaries worldwide, including the Sanctuary of Sentient Beings —located in a national park near Melbourne, Australia.
The prototype journey in Bali will also be documented and produced as a feature-length documentary. This will serve to illuminate the path for future sanctuaries, as well as to deepen public understanding of non-human animals’ lives, minds and welfare.
Through direct funding and support, this project will be able to rapidly expand evidence-based intervention from the seed planted in Bali and cultivate long-term ecological and prosocial attitudes on a global scale.