Client Spotlight: Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition

Aurora Grants is thrilled to spotlight one of our long-time clients, Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition (TWRC). Since 1979, TWRC’s Wildlife Center has provided quality emergency care and rehabilitation to injured, ill, and orphaned wildlife found and brought to them by the public. Relying on its seasoned staff and highly trained volunteers, the Wildlife Center operates an emergency room and helpline, both of which are open seven days a week. To complement its on-site animal care services, TWRC provides in-home rehabilitation for neonates, critical care cases, and long-term recovery cases.

TWRC recently hosted a ribbon-cutting for the newly dedicated Roslyn Even Wildlife Hospital, named for the Center’s past director of 16 years. Current staff members and volunteers trained by “Ros” shared stories about her unique gift of getting stubborn baby birds to “gape,” when others were unable to get them to eat. With Aurora Grants help, TWRC was able to purchase new equipment for the hospital with a grant from DJ&T Foundation, founded by Bob Barker in memory of his wife, Dorothy Jo, and his mother, Matilda (Tilly) Valandra, both of whom loved all animals. The expanded facility is equipped for incubation, examination, lab analysis, administering anesthesia, surgery, and radiography of even the minutest beak or limb. Animals admitted to the Hospital receive extraordinary attention. They may receive fluids, pain medication, antibiotics, stitches, or even splints!

Exemplifying the organization’s commitment to community education, TWRC Wildlife Center’s website includes a range of helpful resources. The illuminating piece about What To Do if You Find an Animal is a must-read for animal lovers of all ages. Too often, well-meaning bystanders remove an injured animal during the important fledgling stage of its development, when simply moving it out of harm's way and waiting for its parents to return would have sufficed. Aurora Grants encourages you to explore this and other topics at twrcwildlifecenter.org.

Since 2017, Aurora Grants’ writers have supported the organization’s fundraising efforts and, as a result, TWRC has expanded and explored new partnerships. We are honored to play a role in TWRC’s ongoing success on behalf of urban wildlife threatened by the loss of habitat and congratulate them on this milestone.

To learn more about TWRC and its mission to promote environmental conservation through public education and rehabilitation of Texas wildlife, visit twrcwildlifecenter.org.