WildCare Transition
WildCare is incredibly excited to announce that we have begun the temporary move to our Transition location to allow us to rebuild on our existing site at Albert Park Lane in San Rafael, California!
By the beginning of October, all of WildCare's operations will be fully functioning at Transition, and construction will start at our current location.
We want to say a huge and heartfelt thank-you to the donors who have supported our Elevate WildCare Capital Campaign (still currently in its "quiet phase"), and the many other people who have made WildCare Transition and our plans for the new WildCare facility possible.
WildCare Transition is located off North San Pedro Road in San Rafael. We'll announce the address to the public and share directions and instructions for visiting and bringing injured and orphaned wildlife patients to the Transition site in the next few weeks.
Interested in learning more about the extraordinary project to build a new home for WildCare and our Elevate WildCare Capital Campaign?
Click here, or email Nicole Trautsch, Director of Development at nicole@discoverwildcare.org.
A New (Temporary) Home for WildCare's Wildlife Ambassadors
Watch WildCare's beloved Wildlife Ambassador pool birds and our venerable Turkey Vulture, Vladimir, entering their bright and spacious Transition enclosures for the first time in the video below. Vladimir is a very elderly vulture (he's 38 years old!) and he's on medications for the limp you might notice in the video.
Later this fall, WildCare Transition will be open for the public to visit our Wildlife Ambassadors! Keep an eye on your email for updates and additional information!
Needless to say, relocating all of WildCare's programs, our wildlife patients, and our Wildlife Ambassador animals is a tremendously complicated undertaking!
The parcel of land where WildCare Transition is located is a surplus property for the San Rafael School District. It's just 10 minutes up the road from WildCare's existing site.
The challenge we faced was to construct a temporary but fully-functional wildlife hospital and nature education center able to treat and care for 3,500+ ill, injured and orphaned animals from over 200 different species, and provide appropriate housing and educational presentation space for our diverse group of educational Wildlife Ambassadors.
It has taken a lot of work and some tremendous ingenuity on the part of our team, but Transition is now a reality!
Read the article from WildCare's Summer 2024 Newsletter about Transition, and see photos from the development of WildCare Transition below!
WildCare in Transition - Article from the Summer 2024 WildCare Newsletter
