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Liberation Sanctuary has been taking in rescued farmed animals for over 33 years.
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We are Australia's longest running dedicated sanctuary for animals freed from the exploitation and slaughter inherent to animal agriculture.

03/04/2025

🌿 URGENT: Our Rescued Animals Need You! 💔

🐮🐷🐑💙 Please support our Drought Appeal today by visiting this link: https://chuffed.org/project/droughtappeal

Liberation Sanctuary has experienced one of the driest summers in memory. As a result the grass is gone, and the dams are drying up.

Our normally lush valleys are now dry and brown, with zero grass. We are facing surging hay prices, with rapidly decreasing availability. The costs have already been devastating, with unprecedented water cartage and more hay being required than ever before.

Every donation brings life-saving hay and water to our 140+ rescued animals.

🙏 Every share, every dollar, every act of kindness makes a difference. Thank you!

29/03/2025

Drought Appeal – Our Rescued Animals Need Your Help!

https://chuffed.org/project/droughtappeal

Liberation Sanctuary is Australia's longest running farm animal sanctuary, home to over 140 rescued animals. Sadly, we have been facing severe rainfall deficiencies, and we are recovering from one of the most brutal summers in memory. The grass is gone. The dams are drying.

Even the smallest donation to our fundraiser is gratefully appreciated. Your kindness will be crucial in allowing us to cover the mounting costs of this drought.

Our dams provide water for almost all our rescued animals, including cows, sheep, pigs, goats, deer, and alpacas. For the first time since we have been here one of our dams is empty and the other is desperately low.

Our normally lush valleys are dry and brown, with zero grass. We are facing surging hay prices, with rapidly decreasing availability. The costs have already been devastating, with unprecedented water cartage and more hay required than ever before. We thank you in advance for any help you can provide in these desperate times.

21/03/2025

Calling all animal lovers! 🐄🐑🐖🐤 For the very first time Liberation Sanctuary has opened our gates to the public.

We're thrilled to offer a limited series of FREE sanctuary tours throughout April, but spots are filling up fast! In fact, our March tours booked solid in just 24 hours, so be sure to secure your visit now at https://www.liberation.org.au/visit

Established in 1986, Liberation Sanctuary is Australia’s longest running farm rescue sanctuary. Located on 45 acres amongst the picturesque Tetoora Road hills, we are just an hour and a half from Melbourne.

13/02/2025

We're thrilled to announce our first sanctuary tours. In March 2025 we are opening our gates to the public for the first time ever, for a limited series of free sanctuary tours.

https://www.liberation.org.au/visit/

The tours will last approximately 1.5 hours and you will meet our rescued animals, including the special needs cows and sheep, the main north valley alpaca, cow and sheep herds, the denizens of pigland, the goat tribe, as well as the many chickens, roosters, geese and ducks roaming around.

You will hear heart warming stories of liberation and survival against the odds, and learn about the reality of animal agriculture systems. There will also be opportunities to help with some of the animal feeds, all while taking in the incredible Gippsland views.

Visit Liberation Sanctuary for an unforgettable experience meeting rescued farm animals. We are currently accepting expressions of interest here

12/02/2025

🌱🌭 960 sausages sold. $3,600+ raised. Countless hearts won over. 🌱🌭✨

Our fundraiser at Bunnings Port Melbourne for Liberation Sanctuary was a massive success!

We sold a whopping 960 plant-based sausages—far surpassing expectations and even making two supermarket runs to keep up with demand! Thanks to the incredible support from everyone, we raised over $3,600 (sausage sales + donations) to help care for the animals at our sanctuary. 💚

A huge shoutout to the amazing volunteers who made this possible! 🙌 Your hard work, enthusiasm, and dedication made the day run smoothly, and we couldn’t have done it without you. 🤗

We were blown away by the positive response from customers, including many who had never tried a plant-based sausage before. Some were hesitant at first, but after taking a bite, most came back for seconds—saying they absolutely loved them and were happy they gave them a try!🌱💚

Many customers, including vegetarians and vegans who were there by coincidence, told us how much they appreciated finally being included in a Bunnings sausage sizzle, saying they usually miss out because most other sausage sizzles don’t offer plant-based options. While there were a small number of negative comments, the overwhelming feedback was incredibly positive!

This event, along with other Sizzle for Change fundraisers, thanks to Vegan Australia, shows there’s huge demand for plant-based sausage sizzles.

Many thanks to Bunnings Port Melbourne for the opportunity to host our sausage sizzle last weekend and raise much needed funds for the animals in our care at Liberation Sanctuary. 🙏

📷 Photo of Sir Bruce at Liberation Sanctuary taken by Laura

25/11/2024

We found Betty alone in the middle of a biting winter. She was a new born calf without shelter, huddled shivering beside a transport truck ramp.

Now she roams the valleys of Liberation Sanctuary with our main herd, enjoying freedom and treats from our loving volunteers.

18/09/2024

A huge congratulations to our volunteers Faith and Jot who got engaged while working hard at this week's sanctuary working bee. We wish them all the best for a beautiful life together! ❤️💍

If you'd like to volunteer with us you can visit liberation.org.au/volunteer. You probably won't get a proposal but you will help us provide love and care for the 140 rescued animals who call Liberation Sanctuary home.

11/09/2024

This is Franklin, and he recently had the luckiest day of his life 🐂❤️

A few weeks ago one of our volunteers who had left for the day came running back to the sanctuary saying there was a cow on the road. We jumped in the car and sure enough a few hundred metres down the winding country road there was a cow in the middle of a dangerous bend.

One of our team stayed to stop traffic while another went to get treats to guide him off the road. When we returned there were several cars backed up each way, and our volunteer Laura was successfully leading the cow to safety on sanctuary grounds.

Unfortunately, soon the 'owners' showed up and saw him in our paddock. They said they had accidentally left a gate open and wanted him back, as he was scheduled for slaughter in a few days. It soon became apparent that it would not be an easy or safe task to get him back up the road.

Our volunteer Noah eventually managed to convince the neighbour that this cow they had had for four years and who was loved by their children, would have a happy life at the sanctuary, and said that their children would always be welcome to visit him. After some negotiation, and appealing to their better angels, he was released into our care.

We decided to name him Franklin, which means freedom. And he will now live out the rest of his life with our herd of rescued cows in the hills and valleys of Liberation Sanctuary, forever safe from slaughter.

06/09/2024

Some of our special needs sheep inspecting the damage...

This week saw wild and deadly weather wreaking havoc across much of Victoria and NSW. We've had a hard few days with no electricity and several trees and branches taken out by the wind, but the power is finally back on and most importantly, all the animals are safe ❤

06/09/2024

Sir Bruce is one of our family members at Liberation Sanctuary. He loves pats, belly scratches and enjoying a bath 🐖🛁

Everyone at the Sanctuary invites you to visit our stall at the Plant Based Paradise @ Fed Square this Saturday. We'll have merch for sale, photos and pamphlets for you to support the more than 140 animals at our Sanctuary.

Hope to see you there!

25/06/2024

Alabama and her newly born son Oklahoma (Oke') ❤️
What a week here at Liberation Sanctuary!

Three months ago we took in a 12 year old vision impaired cow as her farm was closing and they didn't want to send her to the slaughterhouse. They had bottle raised the semi blind calf but she was still used for breeding. We warmly welcomed this sweet, but 'greedy' old girl into our special needs paddock. Right away she shooed our other blind cows away from the feed bowl. We had NO idea she was expecting!

Fast forward to Friday afternoon and out of the blue her beautiful baby arrived (note: first video is giving birth). All went well except by evening bubs was still not nursing and so emergency vet was called. I sat with mother and newborn for 90 minutes until vet arrived. I thought we lost him 2 times... all of a sudden Alabama came and sat right at my feet and laid her gigantic beautiful head into my lap and there she stayed for half an hour. I'll never ever forget those feels.

The vet was awesome, she proceeded to milk mum and teach Noah how to tube feed, which continued throughout the weekend until the little baby finally started to suckle on Monday morning! So far so good. 🤞

Alabama is the most loving and protective mum, never leaving her baby's presence. And now she'll be with her baby til the end. To break the mother/child bond for something so trivial as another species milk in our coffee or a cows milk cheese toastie causes immeasurable pain and suffering.

Open your heart and let this beauty of nature take its course - a proud mother loving her newborn, just like we love ours. Fellow Earthlings all wanting their lives to live. Veganeasy.org ❤️

19/04/2024

We're thrilled to have our first ever stall at event (south side) on Thursday April 25th at (1 Lamana Rd, Mordialloc) 😃

facebook.com/events/414657594323202

We'd love to see you there. Come and support us, ('s forever home for rescued animals), while you feast on delicious vegan food:

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20/03/2024

7 of the 32 Silkie bantam roosters that call Liberation Sanctuary home. You can read about these fluffy little men and sponsor their care on our website liberation.org.au/family/silkie-roosters

19/03/2024

Kang is pretty happy to be featured again for Tongue out Tuesday with these photos captured by Ruby Norrstrom. Swipe left for his happy smile 😛😃

16/03/2024

Reeva taking a moment to soak in the view 🌅

📷 Zoe

15/03/2024

Flashback Friday!

Yesterday we shared a reel of Anita enjoying some sheepy massages, so we thought we would flashback to June 2017, not long after Anita (right) arrived at Liberation Sanctuary as a 2 week old lamb joining Mia on the left who had already been at the sanctuary a month 🐑 🐑

13/03/2024

‘Excuse me, do you have any food?!’

12/03/2024

Sunny found a new love in Zoe our wonderful work away volunteer who after several weeks, went back home to Germany last week. To say he was obsessed is an understatement and he/we will miss you greatly! Thank you for all your help during your stay with us Zoe 🫶💚

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Drought Appeal – Our Rescued Animals Need Your Help!

🌿 URGENT: Our Rescued Animals Need You! 💔 🐮🐷🐑💙 Please support our Drought Appeal today by visiting this link: https://chuffed.org/project/droughtappeal Liberation Sanctuary has experienced one of the driest summers in memory. As a result the grass is gone, and the dams are drying up. Our normally lush valleys are now dry and brown, with zero grass. We are facing surging hay prices, with rapidly decreasing availability. The costs have already been devastating, with unprecedented water cartage and more hay being required than ever before. Every donation brings life-saving hay and water to our 140+ rescued animals. 🙏 Every share, every dollar, every act of kindness makes a difference. Thank you!

Liberation Sanctuary is currently home to 138 animals. In this short 14 second video, all of the animals who reside in the main paddock are visible. That’s 13 cows, 14 sheep and 7 alpacas. With 45 acres of hills and forest to roam, having them all visible from one spot at one time is sometimes a rare occurrence! If you would like to learn more about our animal family or help support the work we do, head over to our website liberation.org.au #sanctuary #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #cows #sheep #alpacas #animalliberationvictoria

Cluck Norris the silkie, and Bella the broiler found companionship with each other after being picked on previously by some of the other roosters. This pair have become good friends and enjoy living their lives together 💕 #chickens #chickensofinstagram #chickensofig #happychickens #chickenfriends #silkierooster #broiler #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

Bruce enjoying his wallow 🐷💗 Thanks Danni for keeping Bruce cool and happy in this summer heat and for the reminder for us all to look out for our animal friends during the warm weather! 🎥 @dannidolittle85 #wallow #piggywallow #stayingcool #pig #pigsofinstagram #pigsofinsta #piggy #piggys #piglover #pigsofig #pigstagtam #piglife #piglove #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

Sound on for a happy “Hello” grunt from Forrest! You may notice Forrest’s bed here resembles that of a dog kennel, but that’s not the only likeness pigs share with dogs. Pigs are highly intelligent, even more so than a dog, and can be trained to sit, amongst other things. They are also very social beings, capable of forming loving bonds with their fellow pigs and other animals, including us humans, and they too loveeeeee belly rubs and ear scratches. If you wouldn’t eat a dog, don’t eat a pig, or any other sentient being, because they are no different in all ways that count, and they deserve the same love and moral consideration. Visit veganeasy.org and make the switch to vegan today! #piggygrunts #pig #pigsofinstagram #pigsofinsta #piggy #piggys #piglover #pigsofig #pigstagtam #piglife #whyloveonebuteattheother #animalloversofinstagram #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

Our beautiful vision impaired steer Yowie 🤍 Yowie was found as a calf in 2014, partially blind and suffering from a painful eye infection that had been left untreated for months. You can read all about Yowie’s rescue and his journey to his forever home with us here at Liberation Sanctuary on the “Our Family” page on our website. #visionimpaired #specialneeds #cow #cows #cowsofinstagram #cowlove #cowstagram #cowsofig #cowsarecool #cowsmakemehappy #animalrescue #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

Chats with William duck #duck #ducksofinstagram #pekingduck #drakes #animalloversofinstagram #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

The moment Bella spotted the juicy grape 🍇 #grapesaregreat #hen #hensofinstagram #henstagram #happyhens #chickens #broiler #animalloversofinstagram #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

Forrest helping Ruby dig out the wallow 🐷 #wallow #pigwallow #pig #pigsofinstagram #pigsofinsta #piggy #piggys #piglover #pigsofig #pigstagtam #piglife #animalloversofinstagram #animalsanctuary #liberationsanctuary #animalliberationvictoria

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