Center for Wildlife
Center for Wildlife is this month's featured nonprofit. Located in Cape Neddick, Maine, the nonprofit organization was founded in1986 by a veterinarian. In that first year about 100 wildlife patients were admitted in their facility which was then operated out of a trailer in York, Maine. Today the site treats more than 2,000 patients each year including: native wildlife injured because of vehicle collisions, domestic pets, pollution, fishing lines, oil spills, and other human-related causes.
Center for Wildlife operates throughout the New England region. Their patients include more than 190 species of birds, reptiles, and mammals. There is an outdoor campus with 45 enclosures that is typically full from April to October. The goal of the wildlife clinic is to medically treat and provide rehabilitation to injured wild animals so that they can be released back to the wild where they belong.
The Center for Wildlife is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to cultivate and strengthen relationships between humans, wildlife and the environment resulting in a healthier, more sustainable community.
Center for Wildlife's Core Activities
In order to accomplish their mission and goals, the Center for Wildlife focuses on four core activities:
Conservation Medicine
Conservation medicine within Center for Wildlife is defined as: Combining veterinary medicine and natural history to return local wildlife to their ecosystems, utilizing patient information to support conservation efforts, and contributing data to the study of health relationships at the wildlife, human, environmental junction.
Center for Wildlife's mission extends to educating our community about wildlife ecology, human impacts on wildlife and critical ecosystems, and stewardship in a region facing intense pressure from development and population growth. Their programs include "Scavengers: Nature's Cleanup Crew", "Nature as My Muse", "Raptors, Reptiles and Mammals", "Maine Birds of Prey", "Seasonal Wildlife Adaptation", "Nature's Nightshift: Nocturnal Animals", "Owls: Silent Hunters of the Night", and "Wells Reserve Field Trip: Wild Friends in Wild Places". Custom programs and private tours are also available.
Environmental Education
Community Empowerment
Center for Wildlife seeks to expand community outreach and provide learning opportunities to educate and inspire people of all ages to value the connection between wildlife, human, and environmental health.
Advocacy
Center for Wildlife advocates for cultivating and strengthening the relationships between humans, wildlife, and the environment in all that they do. This advocacy results in a healthier and more sustainable community.
Join us in supporting Center for Wildlife!
75% of this month's donations will go towards our partner, Center for Wildlife.
This month and every month, Wild Boyz Photography will be partnering with one nonprofit. 75% of any donations that we receive during the month will go to the nonprofit. Help Center for Wildlife continue their mission of cultivating and strengthening relationships between humans, wildlife and the environment resulting in a healthier, more sustainable community.