Earth Day started in 1970 in response to growing awareness and anxiety about the negative environmental impacts of human activities on the planet.

As climate change makes its way into classrooms, teachers need resources. Farm Sanctuary offers free in-classroom presentations and an online curriculum that explore animal agriculture’s effects on our planet and climate change.

Alone, abandoned, and tied to a tree in a Brooklyn park in the pouring rain, Officer Cal sheep could not possibly have imagined the comfortable, love-filled life that awaited him.

On March 19 a construction team arrived at their worksite in the Bronx expecting business as usual.

A new peer-reviewed scientific article concludes they have a number of complex psychological capacities on a par with humans and other primates

In the waning hours of 2018, sightings of a mysterious “cow in the woods” began to be reported in the town of New Britain, Conn. (or, as New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart soon dubbed it in a memorable hashtag, #MooBritain).

America owes a lot to the oft-mocked donkey. After all, it was on their backs that much of the West was won.

These are some of our most notable rescues of 2019.

In the midst of a treacherous ice storm, Farm Sanctuary got a call that stopped us in our tracks: four shorthorn-breed calves were fighting for their lives on a Pennsylvania dairy farm about three hours away from our New York Shelter — and time was running out.