Animal Sanctuary

Mandy with her animal friends at Black Sheep Retreat & Sanctuary near Cancun, Mexico.
SAVE A MEXICAN SANCTUARY! WIN A TRIP TO CANCUN?

By JaneUnChained Contributor Lindsey Baker, host of The Action Hour Mexico’s Black Sheep Sanctuary Retreat: Born in a Moment of Compassion for an Animal! I remember the first time I spoke to Mandy Vara, founder of Black Sheep Sanctuary Retreat, near Cancun, Mexico.  It was 10 minutes before going #Live on my show the Action Hour on JaneUnChained News Network .

Animal Sanctuaries: Powering Through the Pandemic!

Animal Sanctuaries: Getting Super Creative to Survive I see it daily. Post after post, email after email, from a multitude of sanctuaries appealing for donations. While many, if not most, remain closed to visitors, animals in need continue to arrive, putting an even greater strain on crippled resources.

Thanksliving Turkey
Try ThanksLIVING to Honor Those Turkeys!

Turkey Day Done Right! Turkeys. Most people don’t know one personally. But, once you get to know them, you see how sweet, loving, and inherently valuable they are! Luckily, there are people out there like Rachel McCrystal who provide beautiful sanctuary to turkeys and other farmed animals who escape human exploitation.

Pigs are clean! Speciesism
Removing Violence and Speciesism from Our Language

    Speciesism vs Animal-Friendly Idioms If you’ve been involved in the animal rights world, you’ll remember when PETA came out with their list of Animal-Friendly Idioms. PETA cleverly pointed out the speciesism that exists in our everyday language and offered some delightful alternatives.

These bonded chimps hope to stay together as they are moved to their new homes.
32 Chimps Need Your Help!

Chimps Need Your Help! Chimps need your help right now. 32 of them need to find new homes… ASAP! After having sacrificed so much for humans, having been used in research, they were retired to California’s famed Wildlife Waystation, which rescued and rehabilitated more than 70 thousand of animals over the forty years it was in operation.  But, change is inevitable.

Cows & Pigs on Zoom Calls? Unmute Yourself. It’s True!

#JaneUnChained #LiveTALK: Tired of that same old  Zoom meeting you keep having, with the same over-sharers droning on? Well, then, transform your next Zoom into a dynamic, life-changing experience! Goat-2-Meeting is the genius idea of some animal loving, animal sanctuary folks in the Silicon Valley region of California!

BREAKING: 634 HENS RESCUED FROM “DE-POPULATION” DEATH!

BREAKING NEWS: This story continues to unfold as we discover that many more people, than we originally knew about, came forth to rescue 634 individuals called hens. These 634 hens are alive right now because of the heroic work of a slew of sanctuaries (listed below) as well the fast action of a hastily assembled team of animal activists.

Piggy Wins Best Mask!

How are animal sanctuaries holding up during COVID? Kit Collins, Out To Pasture Sanctuary‘s co-founder and director, updates us! At OTP, they believe that animals value their lives as much as we value our own and deserve to live free of exploitation and cruelty and it shows.

LA Democrats Condemn Plan to Bulldoze LA’s Ballona Wetlands!

A tidal wave of opposition is rising up against a reckless plan to destroy LA’s last coastal wetlands, 640 acres known as the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve in the Playa del Rey neighborhood! Watch this Town Hall, hosted by In Defense of Animals and moderated by Molly Basler of GREEN DREAM CAMPAIGN.

Elephant at Kindred Spirits
Who Is Helping Thailand’s Elephants During COVID?

Wonderful discussion with Kerri McCrea, Manager & Co-Founder of Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary – Thailand (KSES), and Gemma Annan Manager & Co-Founder of Thailand Elephants, on how we can help the elephants during the quarantine. Due to the COVID lockdown, those dependent on the working elephants of Thailand, mainly in the tourism industry, KSES has taken in 60 elephants.