Wildlife rehab center needs funds
Sun photo by Greg Martin
Operations manager Callie Stahl tends to a yellow-crowned night heron with a broken leg.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
This hawk, which has lost part of one wing, is among some 200 permanent wards of the wildlife center.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Volunteer Gerrie McDonald feeds a buzzard some chicken. The bird is among some 2,000 injured animals brought to PRWC each year.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Animal "rehabber" Amy Rhoads tends to a wounded possum Friday at Peace River Wildlife Center.
PUNTA GORDA — Among the animals on the mend at Peace River Wildlife Center this week were a possum orphaned as a newborn, several tortoises whose shells had been split open, and an osprey that had been shot in the wing by a pellet gun.
Such animals most likely would have died in the wild. But after weeks of care provided by the center’s staff and volunteers, most soon will be returned to the wild, and those that won’t be able to fend for themselves will become permanent wards of the center.
