CENTRE WILDLIFE CARE

CWC plans to continue providing a professional licensed service to the community and expand to meet the growing need. Land has been donated to build another rehabilitation facility, but also an environmental center. This will help us expand and grow as the need in this area grows.

CWC has hired an additional full time individual to not only help with animal care, supervision of volunteers but also administrative tasks such as grant writing. We are increasing our volunteer recruitment and training to help accommodate the addition need.

CWC has a volunteer and intern program that recruits a staff of over 50 volunteers at any one time. CWC is able to accept and rehabilitate 2000 wild animals per year from all central PA. CWC also works with local veterinarians to provide emergency veterinary care to compromised wild animals 24/7. CWC has specialized housing and facilities on site such as incubators to care for neonates, supplies to care for critically injured animals and outside enclosures for pre-release conditioning. Many of the facilities and outside animal enclosures were built by eagle scouts for their eagle scout project. In addition, there is a basic lab on site to perform fecals and basic blood work such as PCVs and blood lead. The staff and volunteers are highly trained to provide nursing care under the supervision of our cooperating veterinarians.

CWC has been and is successful in becoming a productive and popular wildlife rehabilitation organization with great community support. However, CWC would like to build a larger facility to meet the growing needs.