Links
Over on the right I have some links, a few which are very important to me. One of those is Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. For a few years I volunteered at Tri-City Animal Shelter & Adoption Center and one of the neat things I got to do was take injured birds out to Rogers. What a fantastic place this is! I was almost always greeted by the most beautiful peacock which always seemed like he was making sure I was okay to enter.
I cannot begin to tell you how valuable Rogers has been in rehabilitating injured birds of all kinds; some are able to be released back into their environment, but others are fortunate to have Rogers to call home. All of the caretakers there are volunteers, those who love birds and wish to see them go back to their environment if able. But Rogers isn’t just a rehab center; it also opens its doors as an environmental educational facility. Students and their families visit their Outdoor Learning Center to observe and learn how to conserve our environment, and also to learn about how Rogers is involved in this extremely important endeavor.
Rogers is a “501c3 non-profit wildlife organization whose purpose is to provide care and rehabilitation to injured, sick and orphaned birds with the goal of returning them to their natural environment.” They do not receive any funding from federal, state or local governments but rely solely on private funding and donations. If you read the website, you’ll see how many birds they have taken care of – 40,000 birds in the last decade alone. That is a heck of a lot of birds to take care of, folks.
Why am I bringing this up when it has nothing to do with photography? Well, as I said in the beginning, Rogers is just one of those places that has a special place in my heart. Saving wild birds and the environment, and teaching others how to get interested and involved is important. Our wildlife is disappearing at alarming rates, and some just adapt which makes people angry, but we have to remember, we are the ones destroying their habitat giving them very little choice how to live, or where to live.
No one has asked me to do this, but I feel it is about time I spoke up for a place not a lot of people in North Texas know exist. And so, I am asking if you are able to donate, even $1 to this necessary operation, please do so by clicking on the How to Help tab on their web page. There are several ways to help them out, be it with a money donation or with supplies. Every little bit will help them.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and if you find an injured wild animal, don’t let it suffer needlessly when it could be helped. Contact your state’s wildlife authority and report where you saw the animal.
Jason
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