Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) The widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.

The annual #GivingTuesday will take place on November 30, 2021.

Here are the top 5 reasons to give to Forest Animal Rescue:

1. The animals we rescue come from situations of abuse, neglect, confiscation and have nowhere else to go
2. The animals we rescue receive high-quality, lifetime care at a true sanctuary for the rest of their lives
3. The animals we rescue will never be exploited, bred, or sold 
4. You can support our sanctuary, knowing that your gift will be used responsibly, by a charity with a solid track record of rescuing animals for 23 years – we are their last stop, their last hope.
5. You can make a real difference

Meanwhile…Today is Cyber Monday!

Please remember that when you are shopping online, you can help the rescued animals at Forest Animal Rescue at no extra cost to you!

Here are the best ways to help:

Amazon Smile – When doing regular shopping on Amazon, simply start out at http://smile.amazon.com On your first visit, you can select a charity to support, and that charity will be saved in your profile. As long as you start out your shopping at the AmazonSmile link, Amazon will donate .5% of everything you buy to your selected charity. You can select Forest Animal Rescue and Amazon will donate to us!

While shopping online at other places, you can also raise money for us at no cost to you…simply visit Goodshop and sign up to select Forest Animal Rescue as the charity you support. As you shop all of your favorite stores online, all you need to do is start out at the Goodshop page and then follow the links to your favorite online stores, and a percentage of everything you purchase will be donated to us to help the animals!

How easy is that?! It doesn’t cost you a penny and it helps the animals while you shop online!

Please support the animals and share this message with your friends!

Use hashtag: #GivingTuesday

Know the latest news about the sanctuary and the animals we rescue

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Bob Barker did it again! Please join us in thanking this wonderful man for his generous support.

He donated much needed funds to our sanctuary to purchase a new tractor and cover other important expense for our educational and animal care programs.

It is so fantastic to have the support of such an amazing animal advocate!

Another fantastic article by our local newspaper. They researched the entire article and even have a quote from Bob Barker himself!

http://www.ocala.com/news/20170901/price-is-right-for-new-animal-building

We are so excited to start construction – everything has been waiting on this permit – but we had ‘stalled’ in our fundraising due to the uncertain timing of the project. Now the contractor is moving ahead quickly and we don’t want to stop construction while we raise money!

Will you join Mr Barker in supporting the sanctuary and help complete the project?

We need to keep the donations coming in as fast as our contractor can build! 

Donate Now

If you prefer, your tax-deductible gift can be mailed to:

Forest Animal Rescue
640 NE 170th Ct.
Silver Springs, FL 34488

The painful waiting game is finally over. After a tedious process of designing the building, followed by 8 1/2 months struggling through red tape to obtain the Marion County building permit, we are finally allowed to build!

We brought in fill, cleared trees, built up our driveway, moved our access gates and continued planning, but we couldn’t start construction until the permit was approved. The minute we were allowed, we couldn’t wait to break ground.

The construction has been underway for only 4 weeks and look how far along we are already!

Recent newspaper article includes a quote from Bob Barker himself!

We are so excited to start construction – everything has been waiting on this permit – but we had ‘stalled’ in our fundraising due to the uncertain timing of the project. Now the contractor is moving ahead quickly and we don’t want to stop construction while we raise money!

Will you join Mr Barker in supporting the sanctuary and help complete the project?

We need to keep the donations coming in as fast as our contractor can build! 

Donate Now

If you prefer, your tax-deductible gift can be mailed to:

Forest Animal Rescue
640 NE 170th Ct.
Silver Springs, FL 34488

From the beginning:

The Bob Barker Animal Care Building will ensure continuing high standards of veterinary and nutritional care for the animals at Forest Animal Rescue as the sanctuary continues to grow. With the improved capacity for care, the sanctuary will be able to accept even the tiniest, most fragile orphaned bear cubs for rehabilitation and release – while maintaining our high standards of care for the sanctuary’s 100+ nonreleasable rescued animals. It will also provide more working space for our interns, local and international volunteers as they learn proper methods of caring for wild animals in captivity.

In 2016, retired game show host, Bob Barker approved a $100,000 gift from his foundation to set the project in motion. We immediately began the design and planning process, but nothing seems to ever go smoothly the first time.

When we submitted our final design to the Marion County Building Department we discovered that we would need to revise our special use permit, requiring public zoning hearings and even more time. Revisions to the plans were repeatedly submitted, rejected, resubmitted…we were pulling our hair out…

Finally – Marion County hired Jeffrey Camden as the Building Department Director. Brand new on the job, we asked him to look at our project – The permit was approved that day!

Thanks to all of your outstanding reviews, we are a Top-Rated Nonprofit again this year on GreatNonProfits.org

We couldn’t have done it without you!

Keep the reviews coming and help spread the word about the sanctuary to help us continue our expansion.

The hard-working Alternative Break students take a pledge to perform community service instead of joining their partying classmates during spring break. They are a remarkable group of volunteers and have always accomplished amazing things for the animals

First to arrive were 10 students from the UCF for a week. The following week 15 hard workers from OSU and 10 more from UK joined forces to pick up where UCF left off.

They planted trees and thick landscaping to provide shade and visual barriers for the animals at the sanctuary. Then they dug holes 4-5 feet deep and helped to install some new 8′ tall fencing around the building site for our new Bob Barker Animal Care Building.

Stay tuned, more volunteers and photos coming this week!

The building is a $250,000 project and this gift will start the ball rolling to construct a building that will ensure continuing high standards of veterinary and nutritional care for the animals at the sanctuary. 

We are making substantial progress toward completion of a state-of-the-art animal sanctuary in the Ocala National Forest and this building is an integral part of that accomplishment

Now, in addition to providing lifetime care to over 100 nonreleasable wild animals that would have otherwise been destroyed, Forest Animal Rescue is rehabilitating orphaned black bear cubs for release back into the wild. Working with wildlife officials in Louisiana and Florida, we started the program to assist with orphaned black bear cubs to nurture them until they are ready to be released back into their native habitat.

Bob Barker is helping to take our newest program to the next level. Not only will this building expand our ability to provide the best veterinary care for all of the animals at the sanctuary, it will increase our capacity to rescue more animals, it will provide more working space for our interns and local and international volunteers.

Will you join Mr Barker in supporting the sanctuary and help complete the project?