Links to Animal Rights Organizations that Operate Refuges and Sanctuaries for Farmed Animals

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Links to Animal Rights Organizations that Operate Refuges and Sanctuaries for Farmed Animals

Animal Acres

Acton CA - A farmed animal sanctuary and compassionate living center located just 45 minutes from Los Angeles, working to promote compassionate living through its farmed animal rescue and refuge efforts, public education and outreach, and advocacy projects to prevent cruelty to farmed animals.

Animal Place

Vacaville CA - A a nonprofit sanctuary for abused and discarded farmed animals, founded in 1989. Rescued individuals and indigenous wildlife share 60 acres of forest, meadow, pasture, hills and small lake. Animal Place is also a humane education center that works to promote cruelty-free lifestyles and veganism.

BaaHaus

Vashon WA - BaaHaus is dedicated to helping abused, neglected, and abandoned domestic animals, particularly farm animals that, due to past treatment, would be difficult to place through adoption.

Best Friends Animal Society

Kanab UT - For more than two decades, Best Friends Animal Society has been dedicated to the simple philosophy that kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us.

Bourbon Road Animal Sanctuary

Muscotah KS - Dedicated the the rescue, rehabilitation, and retirement of farm animals and equines; no more rodeos, no more untreated injuries, no more bits to split tongues, no more harsh words or cruel treatment.

Catskill Animal Sanctuary

Saugerties NY - Provides a safe and loving haven for abused and abandoned horses and farm animals - animals who have never known warm shelter, spacious pastures, good food, or the touch of a kind hand. Since 2001, CAS has provided refuge for about 1,300 such animals, including horses, ponies, cows, goats, sheep, donkeys, pigs, rabbits, and a variety of birds.

Chenoa Manor

Avondale PA - The animals who call Chenoa Manor home have come to us from a variety of circumstances. Many arrive at the sanctuary after suffering the abuses of factory farming, others were subjected to cruel and unnecessary lab experiments, or simply abandoned in the wild and left to fend for themselves.

Chicken Run Rescue

Chicken Run Rescue is the only urban chicken rescue of its kind and receives no support from any other organizations, institutions or agencies and depends entirely on donations and sales of art merchandise to continue helping chickens. There is a special need for rooster homes. Don't breed or buy - Adopt

Chocowinity Chicken Sanctuary

Chocowinity NC - We give permanent sanctuary to abandoned chickens or chickens in need of a home for some other reason. We offer information on chicken care to individuals and strive to educate the public about the effects of factory farming on the animals, the environment, and health.

Darlynn's Darlins

Lake Wales FL - To provide rescue, temporary or permanent food, shelter, medical attention, personal and emotional care in a "no-kill" sanctuary to abused, abandoned, homeless or neglected domestic, farm or feral animals, particularly potbellied pigs. To teaching respect for all animals as living, breathing creatures of the earth with all the rights and consideration which should be afforded to any sentient being. To inspire acceptance of the philosophy that the ability to make a lifetime commitment is a primary responsibility of animal guardianship.

The Elephant Sanctuary

Hohenwald TN - To provide a haven for old, sick or needy elephants in a setting of green pastures, dense forests, spring-fed ponds and heated barns for cold winter nights. To provide education about the crisis facing these social, sensitive, passionately intense, playful, complex, exceedingly intelligent and endangered creatures.

Farm Sanctuary

Orland CA and Watkins Glen NY - Works to end cruelty to farm animals and promotes compassionate living through rescue, education and advocacy. We envision a world where the violence that animal agriculture inflicts upon people, animals and the environment has ended, and where instead we exercise values of compassion.

For the Animals Sanctuary

Blairstown NJ - We are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and life-long care of victims of the food farming trade. At our shelter, animals that would have lived a life of privation, pain and constant fear are able to enjoy life, nature, companionship and receive life-long veterinary care.

Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary

Ravenna OH - We rescue, rehabilitate and provide an adoption program for abused, abandoned, and neglected farm animals such as horses, ponies, pot belly pigs, farm pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, sheep, goats, and cattle. Happy Trails serves the entire state of Ohio, and works in cooperation with county humane societies, animal protective leagues, and local and state law enforcement officers.

Leilani Farm Sanctuary

Haiku, Maui, Hawaii - The sanctuary is an all volunteer, non-profit organization created to provide shelter and care for abused animals, and humane education to the public.

Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary

Scio, OR - The Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary was formed to guide animals in need to the safety of calm waters. The Board of Directors, volunteers and supporters are dedicated to light the lantern to guide those abused and neglected animals; to prevent disasters; and to prevent needless loss of life.. a guiding light to safe harbor.

Live and Let Live Farm

Chichester NH - A rehabilitation rescue shelter and sanctuary for abused, neglected and unwanted animals; mostly horses.

Maple Farm Sanctuary

Mendon MA - An animal sanctuary providing lifelong homes for abused, abandoned and unwanted farmed animals while promoting veganism and respect for all life through public information.

New Dawn Montana Farm Sanctuary

Stevensville MT - New Dawn MT Farm Sanctuary is a farmed animal sanctuary and compassionate center promoting respectful views and compassionate, loving choices through farmed animal rescue, public education and the Western Montana Vegetarian Society.

New Life Animal Sanctuary

Victorville CA - The first ever sanctuary exclusively devoted to the rescue and rehabilitation of animals saved from laboratories. Many labs are taking a more humane approach toward their work and are willing to retire some animals to sanctuaries rather than euthanize them and now there is a place for them to go.

Oregon Primate Rescue

Dallas OR - The mission of OPR is to provide lifetime care in a humane and enriching environment to unwanted, orphaned or crippled monkeys that originate from private owners, from government agencies, and to those retiring from a life of research.

Out to Pasture Animal Sanctuary

Estacada OR - A no-kill sanctuary dedicated to providing permanent housing and care for a variety of abused, neglected or abandoned animals including large farm animals, pigs, rabbits, chickens and dogs.

Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)

Galt CA - Since 1984, PAWS has been at the forefront of efforts to rescue and provide appropriate, humane sanctuary for animals who have been the victims of the exotic and performing animal trades. PAWS investigates reports of abused performing and exotic animals, documents cruelty and assists in investigations and prosecutions by regulatory agencies to alleviate the suffering of captive wildlife.

Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary

Deer Trail CO - The animals at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary come in all different sizes and shapes but they all share the same need: a safe loving home and caretakers who respect their individuality. They join the many rescued farm animals who had been exploited and used in agribusiness.

Pets Alive

Middletown NY - Rescues, rehabilitates, and places animals in need. Victims of neglect, abuse, and violence, many of them have special needs and have been rejected by other organizations.

Pigs Peace Sanctuary

Stanwood WA - Dedicated to providing a safe home for unwanted, abused or neglected animals in need and is committed to spreading the message of compassion and respect for all animals.

Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary

Poolesville MD - A 400 acre non-profit refuge for farm animals and wildlife located in Poolesville, Maryland. We offer care, rehabilitation, and permanent sanctuary for neglected, abandoned or unwanted farm animals.

Precious Life Animal Sanctuary

Edmonds WA - Dedicated to rescuing and providing a safe home for abused, neglected and abandoned farm and companion animals, teaching humane education and advocating against practices that perpetuate animal suffering.

Rooterville, A Sanctuary Inc.

Archer FL - To assist in the rescue and placement of abused, neglected, abandoned or unwanted animals, particularly potbellied pigs and to educate the general public with respect to the true nature and characteristics of the potbellied pig and pigs in general.

Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary

Poughqua NY - At the heart of our mission is the notion that animals are sentient beings who deserve to be treated with compassion and respect. All creatures share the earth with us and are not here to be used by us.

Shepherd's Green Sanctuary

Cookeville TN - Our lifetime care facility encompassing 30 acres of mixed woods and meadows for the general population and 2 acres of special facilities devoted to those who for physical or psychological reasons are not competitive, or who are elderly, disabled, chronically ill or receiving treatments or recovering from surgeries or illnesses.

Sierra Malichi: Living in Peace with Deer

Queretaro, Qro. C.P. 76050 Mexico - Our philosophy and goal are to rescue and give back the dignity and respect that one of the most sophisticated and successful animal species of our home planet deserves…The White Tail Deer.

Sunny Meadow Sanctuary

Central MA - Sunny Meadow Sanctuary is a safe haven for rescued farm animals. Each and every farm animal at Sunny Meadow was spared from going to a slaughterhouse and is now living a peaceful, happy life here at the sanctuary.

Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary

Freepost UK - A privately run Sanctuary set up by Fiona Oakes in 1993.  Fiona also funds an the only animal sanctuary in Moscow which is run by a group known as VITA.

United Poultry Concerns

A national non-profit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companionship situations.

Willows Animal Sanctuary

Strichen Fraserburgh Scotland - Dedicated to the care of abandoned and ill-treated domestic and farm animals in Scotland.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary

Woodstock NY - Provides shelter to cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and goats who have been rescued from cases of abuse, neglect and abandonment. We are a place where visitors can come face to face with these animals who most only know as “dinner” and learn about the devastating effects of modern-day agribusiness on the animals, the environment and human health.