Canada Goose has declared it is to go fur-free by next year in what to many people is a surprise announcement and victory for animal activists. “Our future is fur free,” said the brand whose past is synonymous with the abhorrent use of coyote skin trims on its trendy parka jackets.

STORIES: What makes someone go from a life of farming and commercial fishing to being a staunch vegan with a PETA membership? Phil Hatfield shares his story.

Matilda and her nine piglets have been saved from the slaughterhouse and are now a step closer to their forever home thanks to the work of animal rescuers, a grassroots pressure campaign and the huge outpouring of public support.

Surge is pleased to announce the launch of the Surge Sanctuary, an 18-acre haven for rescued animals and the realisation of a two-year dream since the opening of Unity Diner in 2018.

It is the kind of story we can all get behind: a small group of activists with a big vision - and even bigger hearts – enlists the help of a high-profile lawyer to take on the Government and present a legal challenge that could very well change the future for humans, non-human animals and the planet. In the first of our Grassroots Focus series, we spoke to David Finney, Jane Tredgett and Peta Smith, volunteers at Humane Being, about the launch of the pioneering Scrap Factory Farming campaign.

A bunch of crazy vegans got together and decided to do something amazing: convince the public to chip in and buy a plot of land once used for grazing dairy cows to turn it towards something plant-based. Is their crowdfunding victory a fluke, or is it a sign that the world is finally changing? Jackie Norman looks at other projects at the vanguard of alternative land use.

As an antidote to the tragic examples highlighted in our recent video - When animals escape slaughter - we bring you a round-up of mainstream media and viral reports of escaped cows who made it to sanctuaries. But for all the happiness these stories bring us, is there a bittersweet epilogue?

PHOTO STORY: Surge project manager Tati von Rheinbaben takes us back to a day when she visited Sweet Farm, a former dairy farm that now champions veganic, regenerative agriculture.

Personal accounts from the Surge team of how their perception of the world changed after going vegan.