Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals, Veterinary Services, Wildlife Preservation & Protection
Mission: Protecting Wildlife through Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Education
Results: Since 1969, providing exemplary care to injured, orphaned and imperiled wildlife representing more than 350 species. South Florida Wildlife Center is one of the nation’s highest-volume wildlife trauma hospitals. A national leader and teaching facility in wildlife veterinary medicine and rehabilitation, SFWC provides emergency rescue, veterinary treatment, and expert rehabilitative care to more than 350 wild species. Founded in October 1969, the Fort Lauderdale-based facility helps more than 10,000 injured, orphaned, or imperiled animals annually, responds to wildlife conflicts, and collaborates locally and nationally on educating the public on the important role wildlife provide to the ecosystem, and facilitating peaceful coexistence with animals on issues impacting human, environmental and animal health. Visit southfloridawildlifecenter. org, find us on Facebook or call (954) 524-4302.
Target demographics: injured, orphaned and imperiled wildlife
Direct beneficiaries per year: about 10,000 wild animals
Geographic areas served: Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties
Programs: Volunteer Opportunities, Public Education, Ambassador Animals, Outreach to schools, universities, HOAs, law enforcement, and members of the public, intern/externships for wildlife rehabilitators and veterinarian students. PROGRAMSOur unique Veterinary Intern/Extern Program initiated over 18 years ago, steadily increases and provides additional support to our Center. In less than a decade, SFWC has hosted over 300 interns and externs from Germany, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States. SFWC offers two distinct programs: An Externship in Wildlife Medicine, offered to third and fourth-year veterinary students worldwide, and an intensive Field-Oriented Internship that includes the study of wildlife medicine, animal care, rehabilitation techniques, and release criteria. Our Wildlife Rescue-Release Program is the heart of SFWC - aimed at rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured/sick, and orphaned wildlife animals. SFWC intakes injured, sick, and orphaned wild animals as one of the busiest hospitals in the U. S. Our HomeCare Foster Programs directly impact orphaned infants. These infants are hand-reared by trained volunteers, hence ensuring their physical and psychological well-being while they learn to develop important survival skills in a healthy and safe environment. We provide our foster parents with medications, test kits, incubators, specialized nursery care equipment, species-specific diets, enrichment materials, and other essentials.
Mission: Protecting Wildlife through Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Education
Results: Since 1969, providing exemplary care to injured, orphaned and imperiled wildlife representing more than 350 species. South Florida Wildlife Center is one of the nation’s highest-volume wildlife trauma hospitals. A national leader and teaching facility in wildlife veterinary medicine and rehabilitation, SFWC provides emergency rescue, veterinary treatment, and expert rehabilitative care to more than 350 wild species. Founded in October 1969, the Fort Lauderdale-based facility helps more than 10,000 injured, orphaned, or imperiled animals annually, responds to wildlife conflicts, and collaborates locally and nationally on educating the public on the important role wildlife provide to the ecosystem, and facilitating peaceful coexistence with animals on issues impacting human, environmental and animal health. Visit southfloridawildlifecenter. org, find us on Facebook or call (954) 524-4302.
Target demographics: injured, orphaned and imperiled wildlife
Direct beneficiaries per year: about 10,000 wild animals
Geographic areas served: Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties
Programs: Volunteer Opportunities, Public Education, Ambassador Animals, Outreach to schools, universities, HOAs, law enforcement, and members of the public, intern/externships for wildlife rehabilitators and veterinarian students. PROGRAMSOur unique Veterinary Intern/Extern Program initiated over 18 years ago, steadily increases and provides additional support to our Center. In less than a decade, SFWC has hosted over 300 interns and externs from Germany, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States. SFWC offers two distinct programs: An Externship in Wildlife Medicine, offered to third and fourth-year veterinary students worldwide, and an intensive Field-Oriented Internship that includes the study of wildlife medicine, animal care, rehabilitation techniques, and release criteria. Our Wildlife Rescue-Release Program is the heart of SFWC - aimed at rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured/sick, and orphaned wildlife animals. SFWC intakes injured, sick, and orphaned wild animals as one of the busiest hospitals in the U. S. Our HomeCare Foster Programs directly impact orphaned infants. These infants are hand-reared by trained volunteers, hence ensuring their physical and psychological well-being while they learn to develop important survival skills in a healthy and safe environment. We provide our foster parents with medications, test kits, incubators, specialized nursery care equipment, species-specific diets, enrichment materials, and other essentials.
3200 SW 4th Ave, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33315
954-524-4302
Animals
Ft Lauderdale
