Florida Keys Wildlife Rescue, Inc. Zoo and Aquarium Visitor

Florida Keys Wildlife Rescue, Inc.

1388 Avenue B
Big Pine Key, Florida 33043
USA

Florida Keys Wildlife Rescue is a modest-sized rehabilitation facility where there are aviaries for housing sick and injured birds, flight cages (two with a concrete pools for wading birds), facilities for other species of wildlife, and regular and intensive care facilities including diagnostic and remedial capabilities in the hospital. In 2006, we cared for nearly 1,200 birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, all the victims of environmental degradation caused by human activities and exacerbated by 2005's four hurricanes. Some 35 critters are perment residents in our sanctuary and participate in our educational programs designed to develop awareness of the interaction and importance of animals, the environment, and the human community.

We are not an organization which has - business hours. - We respond at all hours of the day or night to calls to rescue sick, injured, and disabled critters. We are not passive; we go out into Keys communities, giving presentations at meetings and teaching children in schools about the effects of habitat destruction and environmental degradation. (In fact, many teachers and youth group leaders contact us to arrange presentations for students and groups such as Boy/Girl Scouts, YMCA, visiting youth groups.) We lead field trips for habitat restoration, planting shrubs and trees and cleaning trash. The disabled animals are our tools, emphasizing that first wildlife and then humans suffer when people disrespect the environment.

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