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Global toxic plant database
Are your residents’ outdoor living spaces safe? - Our free Global Toxic Plant Database is easy to navigate and contains information sortable by species and location!
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Available Now: The Care Program Evaluation Checklist
188 pages, 1200 policies and best practices for sanctuaries
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Animal Care Resources

Find resources about specific resident species here!

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PIGS

What’s New And Updated

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Protected: Farmed Animals In Research: What Can Sanctuaries Do?

This mini-resource looks at farmed animal species in laboratory settings and how sanctuaries can find them homes.
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Don’t Eat That! Preventing Foreign Body Ingestion At Your Animal Sanctuary

Ingesting non-food items can cause your residents serious harm!
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How The Open Sanctuary Project Measures Our Impact

Want to learn about how The Open Sanctuary Project's work impacts the rescue, sanctuary, and advocacy communities' work and beyond? Read on!

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Educational Programming

Learn about creating and managing an animal sanctuary here!

Governance & Organization

Access innovative online courses for important sanctuary topics here!

Downloads & Multimedia

Access our database of helpful documents and more here!

Animal Care Resources

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Starting A Sanctuary?

We have over 500 free informational resources, guides, templates, tools, and a whole lot more to help your animal organization grow and thrive!

About The Open Sanctuary Project

The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always growing digital guide for any resources or information you need in order to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary.

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About The Open Sanctuary Project

The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always growing digital guide for any resources or information you need in order to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary.

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