The main goal of the BACK TO THE WILD wildlife rehabilitation center is to return recovered wildlife back into the wild. There are many things to consider before a wild animal can be safely released. In the spring, many animals establish their nesting and hunting territories and their young are born. This is an extremely vulnerable time for young animals and their parents.
Predators abound and severe weather conditions take their toll.
However, human carelessness destroys this balance when our irresponsible destruction and alteration of habitats everywhere, make it nearly impossible for wild animals to thrive. We have a moral obligation to learn to co-exist with these very important creatures with whom we share the earth. The presence of healthy wild animal populations serve as environmental indicators for humans to monitor the health of an ecosystem. The quality of human life depends directly on the presence of a balanced ecosystem of plant and animal communities. Literally, hundreds of songbirds, bunnies, ducklings, squirrels, opossums, skunks, raccoons and fawns are brought in that should not have been captured.