Wildcare Foundation

Wildcare accepted 6,791 animal patients representing 231 distinct species in 2022. The survival and release rate of animals surviving the first 24 hours in care was 64.88%% for all mammal patients, 57.9% for all bird species, 100% for all amphibian patients, and 67.98% for reptile patients with an overall survival rate of 62.89% above the national average of 50%. Caring members of the public rescue animals struggling to survive from across the entire state of Oklahoma; they bring them to Wildcare because they are injured, ill, or orphaned. The veterinary team or senior rehabilitation staff assess each animal's condition, and then staff provide appropriate medical care, housing, and food. Staff care for and monitor each animal patient daily until they are fully developed or healed-they are then released back into the wild for a second chance at life. Wildcare manages a large portfolio of landowners that make available large swaths of land onto which patients are released. Wildcare remained opened 365 days in 2022, admitting the fourth highest number of animals in the organization's history due continued efforts to remain open, maintain adequate staff levels, and use newly developed animal care protocols to ensure animals, staff, and volunteers were kept as safe as possible. Wildcare provided over 60 educational events in 2022 reaching 7,676 people. Wildcare continued to operate its wildlife hotline answering on average 100 calls from april through september. In 2022, 98 volunteers donated 5,044 hours of service to Wildcare with its eleven-member, all- volunteer board of directors donating an estimated 330 hours.