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Wildlife Call For Volunteer Help

Thousands of birds and small animals need help now as wildlife rehabilitation reaches peak season in June and July

Wildlife Care Volunteers Critical

The non-profit wildlife rehabilitation group has taken in over 1000 birds and small animals in May that need a real friend. Right now!

Thousands more are coming in June and July.

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Volunteers to help care for and feed injured and orphaned wildlife give them a second chance to live. Wildlife Care Association of Sacramento has a variety of roles including that filled by volunteer Dave Gish. As a community volunteer he’s given over 1600 hours and logged hundreds of miles returning over 500 creatures to the wild in releases across the Sacramento region since 2016. WCA volunteers like Dave return wildlife to the area it came from originally on release back to nature.

Volunteers have fed, raised and rehabilitated wildlife while others from across the community staff the Hotline, manage the office and keep the WCA facility up and operating thru the busy season.

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Dave Gish also volunteers as a facility gardener working to maintain the grounds when not on the road to release rehabilitated wildlife back to nature. Wildlife Care volunteers provide 98% of the critical skills needed to keep these heroes of wildlife on track. Working with skilled animal care staff and our community volunteer coordinator it’s the people from across the region from all walks of life that make the difference in life or death for wildlife.

By taking in thousands of creatures to live again and return to the wild, the WCA heroes of nature help keep the balance in our environment to preserve our quality of life. Volunteers are the most critical part of the mission to save wildlife across the Sacramento region that began more than 45 years ago. Visit volunteer@wildlifecareassociation.comto take part in saving wildlife!

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