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Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust is a non-profit nature center and land trust located at 5 Church Hill Road in Woodbury, Connecticut. Established in 1963, the organization holds in trust over 2,100 acres of open space in seven preserves in Woodbury, Bethel , Southbury and Middlebury .
Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries , where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Maidstone, Kent.; Cornish Seal Sanctuary, Gweek, Cornwall; Ferne Animal Sanctuary, Somerset, Wambrook, near Chard, originally run by Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton
Rewild Refuge Farm Sanctuary, a new rescue farm that’s opened on a property tucked away off Highway 104 near Kingston, is home to any number of similar pastoral scenes on a given day.
The largest animal sanctuary in the United States is the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary near Kanab, Utah. [26] This sanctuary spans across nearly 4,000 acres and is home to approximately 1,600 animals. According to the sanctuary, "Best Friends has become the heart of a collaborative no-kill movement, and a model for the future of animal welfare ...
The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary was created in 2013 in honor of Catherine Violet Hubbard, a six-year-old killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.
Founded in 2007, GFAS accredited its first US sanctuary in 2009 and its first international sanctuary in 2011. [2] By 2012, it had 100 accredited sanctuaries. As of December 31, 2023, GFAS has 132 accredited groups; 83 verified; operating in 18 countries. [6]
Shambala Preserve is an animal sanctuary established in 1972 and located in Acton, California, a desert community 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Palmdale, off of California State Route 14 and 40 miles (64 km) north of Los Angeles.