What it does
Saving our wildlife, one life at a time, by rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured, displaced, and orphaned wildlife, while educating the community on the importance f native wildlife and participating in scientific research.
Medical care and rehabilitation: southwest wildlife operates a veterinary clinic providing medical care for sick, injured, or orphaned mammals. Through our rehabilitation work, more than 90% of intake animals who survive their initial trauma are released back into the wild. Animal sanctuary: southwest wildlife specializes in providing sanctuary for large mammals such as black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and coyotes. Southwest wildlife also particpates in the mexican wolf recovery program by providing space for geriatric wolves and collecting genetic material. Animals that have lost the ablity to survive in the wild can live out their lives in our accredited sanctuary.
Education and research: southwest wildlife shares its knowledge of protecting wildlife through education programs, with a goal of inspiring people to learn about, respect, and conserve our native wildlife and habitats. Educational programs offered onsite at the sanctuary in northeast scottsdale include walk with wildlife, family days for the very young, full moon tours, discovery days, and other workshops. Southwest wildlife also offers outreach programs in the community. In addition, southwest wildlife contributed to several scientific research projects focused on wildlife conservation, including studies on bobcats, kit foxes, and javalinas. Southwest wildlife also assisted in preserving the reproductive potential of endangered mexican wolves for future breeding programs.