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 Europe
Pig Village
The aim of Pig Village is to work with as many people as possible to inspire them to make change within their own life and we want to work with the animals to achieve this.
Currently Pig Village is home to pigs, obviously, horses, donkeys, goats, geese and more and each one of them can be included in the long term plan to help us help others to open their minds.
With the horses we want to bring in a horse whisperer who can work with people on their own issues but also to show people how to connect with a horse, to understand the horse and achieve a connection that does not involve “breaking” a horse or beating them with a stick. We want this to be open to as many people as possible, including children, but to include the locals to educate them on a new way of training.
The animals here at Pig Village are all friendly and we cannot see a better way to introduce children to animals than those who want to meet humans too! We want them to meet the animals and build the connection between animals and food and make the right decision.
Ultimately we would like to build a centre where people can come to learn about animal handling, organic food growing, vegan cooking classes, team building events and speakers to come in from all over the world to speak, train and educate.
We want the centre to be open to everyone, of all ages, to reach as many people as possible so that the animals who live here can be responsible for change.
We want to grow as much food as possible, for the animals and humans, to share organic methods, to encourage people to come and collect the organic manure the animals produce to put onto their lands, to talk to people about the importance of organic, healthy food for animals and humans.
We want to bring more animals here to help spread this message and we want to develop areas to demonstrate how animals like to live for example, we want to build a big pond for our geese, introduce ducks and allow people to see them at their happiest.
This will become a full operational animal sanctuary that everyone can enjoy and learn from whilst at the same time, supporting the animals and helping us save more.