Provides an educational phone line for people with questions and concerns regarding wildlife, conducts educational programs, and accepts injured and orphaned wild animals for rehabilitation.

• www.natures-nursery.org

By supporting Nature’s Nursery, you can serve a vital role in caring for the area’s native wildlife – and in teaching others to care more for our environment.

For more than 20 years, Nature’s Nursery has been providing medical care to injured and orphaned local wildlife, with the goal of returning them to nature whenever possible. Each year, Nature’s Nursery takes in about 2,000 wild animals that need help.

While rehabilitation is an important part of Nature’s Nursery’s mission, group education can have an even greater impact on wildlife populations than returning individual animals to the wild. Nature’s Nursery conducts up to 200 conservation education programs each year, reaching more than 7,000 people, from preschoolers to senior citizens. These engaging programs – which often include interaction with birds of prey and other native wildlife – are teaching generations to care more and do more to preserve and protect the environment.

In addition, Nature’s Nursery’s free hotline provides important public health and safety information to 15,000 callers each year who have questions about issues like Avian Flu, West Nile Virus and rabies, as well as those seeking help for injured or orphaned wildlife.