This organization is not located in New Hampshire, but it is the only wildlife rehabilitation center in the area. The work they do there is amazing. We visited them back in June of this year when our cat caught a baby Chickadee. We made a donation when we dropped off the baby bird and blogged about our trip to The Center for Wildlife (CFW) in Cape Neddick, Maine. They need your support. If you love wildlife as much as we do, then please consider giving to The Center for Wildlife. They need your help especially this winter.

Here is the latest information from their newsletter:

As the air turns colder, we’re releasing the last of our summer babies and, like our friends in the wild, preparing for winter. We’re deeply worried about the current economic climate, and our concern reminds us again how all creatures in this world are connected. Is it possible that economic vagaries – like credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations – can impact wildlife? We hope not! Our most earnest goal is to insulate our patients from economic fluctuations by sustaining our level of care, and continuing to fulfill our mission to rehabilitate and provide sanctuary for sick and injured wild animals, and to promote respect for wildlife and the environment.

With this goal and mission in mind, we ask you for your support this winter. In order to have adequate resources to care for over 1,600 animals this year, we must raise $40,000 in Winter Sponsorships. We are seeing an untimely increase in admissions, as more animals are brought to us from communities with no rehab centers of their own. Facing financial difficulties, many rehab facilities in the region have either closed, or limited the number of animals they accept, with tragic consequences. The Center for Wildlife is open every day, year-round, and even on our slowest day of the year, we house over 80 recuperating animals (currently, we have about 130!). The CFW strives never to turn away an animal in need of treatment. But this winter, we’ll need your help to continue to meet this growing challenge!

Winter sponsorshipswill purchase the food, medical supplies and staff time needed to rehabilitate animals during the winter months. Every winter, we admit owls and hawks hit by cars as they hunt in the roads that increasingly fill their habitat; juvenile seabirds who wash ashore weak and emaciated as the food supply of prey fish decreases; and the mammals who conflict with humans and the songbirds who are caught by cats as shortages of food and habitat drive these animals into our backyards. More development brings the mixed blessing of more human encounters with wildlife, and when these encounters end in tragedy, the CFW is here doing our best to rehabilitate these animals and return them to the wild.

We cannot emphasize enough the importance of your contribution, and our deep appreciation for your support and compassion for wild animals. We promise that 100% of the Wintertime Sponsorships we receive will go directly to animal care costs … and not one cent to administration or overhead! The board and staff at CFW extend our most sincere gratitude and – though they may not know it – the animals are grateful too, both our current patients and those who will come later this winter to benefit from your generosity.

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