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SANCTUARY

OUR WORK

Wild Peace Sanctuary is a regenerative land-based project aimed at facilitating healing and peace for people, animals, and the land through natural reciprocity. Our wild horses and burros, all rescued from situations of abuse, neglect, and abandonment are helping us to restore and heal the land, grow nutritious food, and support an ecology of care. Our educational events and therapeutic services are centered around facilitating meaningful, authentic, and sustainable relationships within ourselves, between one another, and with the natural world.

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OUR SERVICES

REWILDING

We are engaged in a range of land-based practices drawn from the fields of rewilding, permaculture, equiculture, and regenerative agriculture. Our grazing animals are the key to our work as their movements across the land help to create a rich and dynamic

mosaic of habitat for native wildlife, and their nutrient-rich fertilizer enables us to grow healthy food. Our aim is to support

a regenerative and sustainable system of living in harmony and balance with our animals, the land, and each other.

OUR WILDLIFE

We are introducing key regional trees, shrubs, and plants to enhance habitat for bees, butterflies and other pollinators; and to cultivate a living medicine cabinet and food forest for our resident herd, human stewards, and both resident and local wildlife. Our equines are rotated regularly to facilitate the natural disturbance from large-bodied herbivores that is a fundamental element of rewilding. This encourages a diversity of plants, animals, insects, fungi, and other organisms; and helps to restore ecological balance.

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OUR EVENTS

Our educational events combine hands-on workshops in place-based skills, crafts and arts, such as learning about local, edible and medicinal plants, restoring habitat with animals and traditional hand tools, and basket weaving with local fibers; with a focus

on engaging with these practices in ways that are relational, reciprocal, and regenerative. We also offer opportunities

to learn and practice generative and transformative conflict as we learn to create and find common ground.

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WILD EQUINES

Wild horses and burros are being removed in record numbers from U.S. public lands to make way for industry. Tens of thousands end up in the slaughter pipeline while thousands of others are confined for life in barren, crowded, and shelterless government-run facilities. The tragic irony is that these gentle herbivores could be our allies in this time of climate instability and food insecurity, as their beneficial presence improves soil health, increases biodiversity, enables food production, and prevents wildfire.

OUR SERVICES

We provide healing and restorative services for individuals, families, and groups, through a combination of therapeutic care-farming, somatic healing, animal wisdom, and nature connection. Our healing sessions and private retreats offer opportunities to tend to

the inner landscape of our embodied experience as a reflection of the outer landscapes that hold us. Our healing services draw from a range of pracyices including 

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GIVING BACK TO
LAND & PEOPLE

We make mineral-rich compost from the raw manure that our herd provides to make a nutrient-rich, slow release bio-fertilizer, as well as fermented liquid plant fertilizers from comfrey, horsetail and nettle that we harvested from the land. We use our own compost and plant fertilizers to grow organic fruit and berries, vegetables and herbs; and donate the rest to local ecological restoration groups and food security programs including the Concerned Citizens for Clean Air, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

SUPPORT US

Your support helps us to care for our resident herd and raise awareness of the desperate plight of wild horses and burros in

the US, while shining a light on their innate ability to rewild and regenerate land. In addition, your donations will

help us to further develop our program of nature-based classes and workshops, and provide scholarships

for anyone needing support to attend our workshops or to access our therapeutic services.

WHAT OUR SUPPORTERS SAY

“I am very happy to support Wild Peace Sanctuary with the work they are doing as they are helping

animals, land and people to heal, and are doing essential work in raising awareness

around the very serious animal welfare and ecological issues surrounding

the mistreatment of wild horses and burros in North America."

Louise Duffy  /  Plymouth, UK

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