The Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
The Kamloops Wildlife Park Society operates the only licensed Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in the Kamloops area. The Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre staff and volunteers work closely with the Ministry of Environment as well as community partners to provide rehabilitation services for injured, ill, or orphaned mammals, birds of prey, amphibians, reptiles and endangered species until they can be returned to their natural habitats.
The Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre also has a partnership with Thompson Rivers University's - Animal Health Technology Program (AHT) to teach and prepare students to become Animal Health Technicians. Students that are taking this program will learn many aspects of their course requirements while providing a very high level of veterinary care and learning their course requirements while participating in animal health and wildlife rehabilitation at the B.C. Wildlife Park.
In 2006, the Rehabilitation Centre rescued and rehabilitated 139 animals and in 2007, the Park took in five rescued rattlesnakes and rehabilitated them by the fall season when the snakes were eventually released to a den site. One of the snakes also gave birth at the Park and the surviving young were also released into the wild. In 2008, the Rehabilitation Centre took in 11 deer fawn from Kamloops and other surrounding communities such as Prince George and Kelowna. Two of the fawn did not survive after they were rescued, while one survivor will not be released since it has lost its fear of man. However, eight of the surviving deer fawn were released into the wild.
Read more about this topic: British Columbia Wildlife Park, Conservation and Education Projects
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