Wildlife Rescue Coalition's mission is to increase knowledge and understanding of the natural world and its relationship to man through environmental education, wildlife conservation, and wildlife rehabilitation. Our goal is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the importance of the environment, and why conservation is vital to the well-being of humankind. By providing first hand experience of these magnificent creatures, it will foster greater stewardship of the earth. One can only care about what one knows.

   Our ultimate goal is each of these cases is to release the patient back into the wild. Through the care and treatment of our native wildlife, we gain valuable insight into the environmental problems that are affecting both wildlife and man. The information that we learn about in our "natural laboratory" is used in our education program. Our hope is to inspire a greater reverence for all living things, and to foster kinder attitudes toward our natural environment, hopefully lessening man's impact on this planet.

   Wildlife provides a good vehicle for environmental education because children are instinctively fascinated by animals from their earliest years - delighting in pictures of animals and imitating their sounds often before they can actually speak. For most people, that direct emotional connection with animals is broken at some time during childhood.