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Curaçao Wildlife
is a committee of Curacao Sunchild Foundation (dutch: Stichting).
Sunchild is a true volunteer nonprofit foundation, which means that not
one cent of the money from donations, fundraisings, and/or
institutional grants at this foundation is spent on
salaries, everyone, even the board of directors are donating their
time, and expertise as volunteers, next to their fulltime job
elsewhere. This fact is written in our Statutes. A copy of our
Statutes is filed at the Curacao Chamber of Commerce, under
registration number S-407.
Funding
However to pay for operations, medicine, bandages, and food, we are
supported via
wildlife funds, donations, fundraisings, and/or
grants by caring individuals and
local businesses that care about the animals that surround them at
home, at work, and in the natural habitats. To find out how you can
donate to us, please send an email to
help@curacaowildlife.com
Curaçao Wildlife's four-fold mission:
1. Rescue, treat, rehabilitate, and release releasable animals back
to their
natural environments.
2. Provide education to public and schools about the wildlife around
us, how man,
domesticated animals and wild animals interact, and how
our actions affect the
wildlife in our work and living areas and in
their natural habitats.
3. Assist other local and international organizations with large
scale wildlife rescue
efforts.
4. Prevent transmission of disease to fauna and citizens of
Curacao via migrating
avians, migrating sea mammals, and the sea ports. |
Curaçao Wildlife Committee's Goals:
1. provide to the public a contact list of volunteers who are able to
rescue, treat,
rehabilitate, and release certain types of wild animals;
2. provide a central emergency phone number for SMS
text messaging;
3. train volunteers to rescue, rehabilitate, and release wild animals;
4. acquire equipment and supplies for safe handling and treatment of
wild animals;
5. construct and maintain temporary housing for wild animals that
prevents them
from becoming tame and/or become imprinted
animals;
6. educate the public how to prevent injury to wild animals;
7. educate the public how to handle and care for an injured wild
animal;
8. build a website that contains the aforementioned and provides an
updated list
of animals that were taken in, cured, and released;
9. Publish wildlife rehabilitation manuals, and
educational wildlife DVD's. |
Wild animals that will be rescued, cured, rehabilitated and
released:
- local and migrating marine mammals (turtles, dolphins, sea lions,
small whales)
- local and migrating avians
- local terrestrial mammals: such as, but not limited to, rabbits, donkeys,
iguanas,
avians, bats, etcetera
- exotic wild animals that do not occur in wild habitats of Curaçao
(ocelot,
monkeys, macaw, boas, rattle snakes, caiman, Florida Corn Snake,
lynx, etc)
- the above wild animals that were taken from the wild and became
pets
List of animals Curacao Wildlife will not rehabilitate:
- domesticated animals (cats, dogs, horses, etc)
- wild animals that were attacked by its naturally occurring wild
predator
Reasons why animals end up in care of Curaçao Wildlife:
- injury caused by man-made hazards, such as windmills, fences, fishing
line/nets,
garbage, windows, electrical wiring, etcetera;
- injury caused by land, sea, and air traffic;
- injury caused by vandals;
- injury caused by domesticated animals, such as cats and dogs;
- infection caused by disease;
- emaciation caused by: starvation, no access to food,
inability to hunt for food;
- dehydration caused by: no access to fluids;
- orphaned caused by: parents killed by pets/vandals, fallen
out of nest;
- wild animals that were taken from the wild as pets;
- illnesses (appears to be sick);
- poison and pesticides;
- pollution;
- environmental disasters caused by mankind;
- exhaustion caused by: changing sea/wind currents, tropical
storms. |
Emergency Phone Number
Our emergency phone number is (599-9) 6683500 to inform us via a SMS
text message about an
injured, sick or orphaned wild animal on land or in the sea. You can
leave a voice mail if calling from a standard phone, but
nobody will answer the phone when we are in the field
observing wildlife in camouflage and
full silence.
Password access only
Some pages and media are not available for public viewing to
prevent abuse. If you are not logged in, you will see the text
"password access only" underneath the link to the data that is
only available to staff and volunteers, after having logged
in. |
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