Make a difference
Wildlife needs more than good intentions.
It needs people who show up, learn, change a habit, share a skill, or make room for one more living thing.
Find your way to help ↓Start where you are
Four useful ways forward.
Volunteer
Give reliable, practical help at the center or as part of REGI's rescue transport network.
↘02Intern
Build hands-on experience in avian rehabilitation and environmental education.
↘03Go lead free
Protect scavengers and waterbirds by choosing non-lead ammunition and fishing tackle.
↘04Help at home
Make everyday choices that create safer yards, waterways, and communities for wildlife.
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Apply to volunteer
Be someone the team can count on.
Volunteers help with cleaning, maintenance, gardening, construction, fundraising, painting, bird transport, and the many unglamorous jobs that make excellent care possible.
Going lead free
One material. A long chain of harm.
Lead ammunition and fishing sinkers can poison wildlife long after a shot is fired or a line is lost.
Loons and swans can ingest small lead tackle. Eagles and other scavengers can be poisoned when they feed on remains containing fragments of lead ammunition. Choosing non-lead alternatives is a direct, practical act of conservation.
Conservation starts with you
Make the places around you safer for birds.
Another direct path
Put resources behind the next recovery.
Money and supplies keep independent wildlife care available.