All Wildlife Rescue and Education, Inc. (AWRE) is a
non-profit organization devoted to accomplishing two objectives:
1. Rescuing, retrieving, medically evaluating and
treating, rehabilitating and releasing all species of injured wildlife
back into their natural habitat (when safe for the animal).
2. Educating the community, with our focus on
pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students, to respect and be aware
of the wildlife in and around their environment.
The organization�s officers accomplish the first
objective through a continuing effort. As individuals, AWRE�s officers
have been involved in literally thousands of rescues and treatments;
from marine birds injured in oil spills to raptors injured in various
accidents and illnesses. The idea for AWRE took shape as the
organization�s founders realized the increasing demand and unmet need
for animal rescue and rehabilitation within the Southland communities.
Last year alone, two of our board members were directly involved with
treating and rehabilitating over seven hundred eighty animals. As
individuals, however, there was only so much which we could do. However,
as a functioning, full-time, non-profit organization dedicated to
rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife, we will be able to greatly
leverage our combined talents and abilities towards this end. We look
forward to continuing this service on a much greater scale as a
non-profit organization.
The second objective of AWRE is to educate the children
in our local communities, from community organizations to elementary
through secondary schools, both public and private. We recognize if
people and communities are made more aware of their environment and the
wildlife that lives there, they will be more sensitive to the impact
their actions carry. Particularly important in our educational strategy
are our non-threatening live animal presentations for children. By
exposing children to animals in our custody, like our mascot,
Archimedes, a Saw Whet Owl, we hope to encourage children to fall in
love with wildlife. AWRE combines story telling with live animal
presentations, and gives teachers many opportunities for lesson planning
including but not limited to; pre-presentation research, introduction of
issues concerning ecology, geography, zoology and botany. The ultimate
goal being to encourage children to respect and appreciate wildlife and
the environment in which we all live, thereby growing into adults who
will care for their environment and appreciate the wildlife that lives
within it.
With AWRE�s funding goals met, the public will have a
rehabilitation facility capable of both short and long term
rehabilitation of all species of injured wildlife found in the area.
Including flight pools for the many Pelicans, Cormorants and other
marine wildlife.
This facility will be open to the public and will
include classroom settings for on-site educational programs, encouraging
school field trips to the facility.
Through AWRE�s service to the community and environment,
we will be able to have a direct impact on individual attitudes toward
local conservation and the preservation of wildlife.
Be sure to check out our web site at: www.awre.org
Source: [email protected]
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