British Columbia Animal Sanctuaries, Rescues, and Shelters
While we vegans all wish there wasn’t a need for animal sanctuaries, we are truly grateful for the compassionate work being done by so many people around the world to help animals in need. The animal sanctuaries, rescue centers, and shelters shown on this page are sorted based on reviews from your fellow vegans worldwide, and many are well worth your support. If you’re able to, consider visiting one or more of these animal care facilities, whether they are near home for you or if you happen upon one while you are traveling abroad.
Our goal is to provide a platform that truly respects and mirrors our collective vegan opinions and perspectives. As our global vegan community adds additional animal sanctuaries and care facilities, and as we review and rate our favorites, the resulting listings will continuously, and more accurately, reflect our favorite animal sanctuaries.
Our vegan community’s favorite Animal Sanctuaries in British Columbia
Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is a non-profit, registered society providing care for injured and orphaned wild birds and small mammals on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia. Each year the Centre receives hundreds of calls on behalf of distressed wildlife and cares for and shelters hundreds of animals including birds, deer, raccoons, and other small mammals.
Treatment may be as simple as providing proper food, water and warmth to an orphaned fledgling until it is old enough to be released to the wild; or, as complex as arranging an operation for a deer to implant a pin in a broken bone.
It may take several weeks or even months of care to prepare an animal for a second chance in its natural habitat. All this must be done without destroying the animal’s basic fear of humans, for, once on its own again, its life may depend on that natural fear.