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The Last Ark Orphanage is a Rewilding safe haven and sanctuary for animals and humans. Where horses that have endured abuse, neglect, trauma and suffering are given the space, freedom and love to heal and reconnect with the herd in the lap of nature herself.
Nestled within the blanket of a 400 acre native ecosystem in the Sierras of Uruguay, The Last Ark Orphanage homes rescued and rehabilitated horses
These horses would otherwise have ended up in the slaughterhouse for meat and human consumption - the horse meat industry having doubled in demand from three to six thousand horses per MONTH from 2021-2022 - after lives of slavery, maltreatment and abuse (the ‘Blood Mare’ industry that extracts the blood from artificially inseminated pregnant mares who are repeatedly impregnated and used until they either die or are sent to slaughter).
To find out more about blood farms, visit the Animal Welfare Foundation, following the links below:
“What we do to animals we do to ourselves”
- RM
OUR HISTORY
Since acquiring the land in 2016, we have carved out parcels and fencing for horses close to water sources, paved access roads, built a basic structure for human habitation as well as a geodesic dome for guests/clients.
From 2018 have offered solace to over 80 horses. Birthing, feeding and curing the old and the young. In 2018 we homed 30 neglected and malnourished wild Arabian horses that were living in horrific conditions and in 2020 we pulled and homed 21 horses destined for the slaughterhouse.
We also have 28 rehabilitated horses (two pregnant) currently rescued from auction and varying abusive situations that reside and will remain at The Last Ark Orphanage permanently.
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