Our primary mission is to provide exceptional, compassionate, and knowledgeable care for injured and/or orphaned birds of prey with the ultimate goal being the successful release back into the wild. It is also our mission to alert, educate, and excite the public with regard to birds of prey, their habitats, conservation, and the need for protection and preservation of the world around us.
Therefore our second goal is to provide memorable and meaningful educational programs to a variety of local organizations within our community. These encompass schools, after-school programs, libraries, civic organizations, children’s camps, as well as other venues. It is the children of today who are responsible for protecting the environment of tomorrow and the preservation of the precious world we share. We firmly believe that our educational outreach programs constitute a vital and necessary step towards creating a world in which sustainability and ecological responsibility compliment and fulfill human life.
Wild for Life continues to develop knowledge and techniques necessary for the optimal care of each individual species. We are, licensed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and federally licensed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rehabilitate birds of prey, our specialty, and to possess birds – our Ambassadors – and any collected nests, eggs, feathers, etc for educational purposes.
Wild for Life is the only established wildlife rehabilitation facility specializing in birds of prey within a 50 mile radius of Asheville.
Wild for Life provides exceptional and compassionate care for birds of prey in need of help with the goal to release these animals back to their native wild habitat.
The vast majority of birds received by Wild for Life are brought to us as a result of human interaction. Injuries include animals that have been hit by a car, shot, caught in leg-hold traps, wrapped in barbed wire, caught by a dog or cat, a result of habitat destruction, or other injuries requiring specific medical, nutritive and supportive care.
We provide educational programs, internship and volunteer opportunities, and a great place for individuals or groups to complete service learning projects.
Wild for Life exists because of the need: the need of the animals, the need of the environment, and the need of the human community. Every individual wild animal deserves the right to complete its place in the circle of life.
Wild for Life is operated by dedicated volunteers.
Funding is provided by:
Please contact us if you have funding ideas or opportunities.