**** Via Hope for Wildlife
We’re building a Turtle Trauma Centre!
We’ve been helping injured turtles for as long as we can remember, and every year the number of turtles that need our help grows. We are now admitting an average of 150 turtle patients each year—and when you consider that all four of our freshwater turtle species are at risk, every one we help makes a huge difference.
Turtles need a lot of space, water, and specialized long-term overwintering care. It’s a big task that needs a big solution—so we’re building the first dedicated Turtle Trauma Centre in Nova Scotia, specifically to help get these amazing animals back to the wild where they belong. They will have their own building, equipped with all the large tanks, bins, UVA/UVB lamps, heat lamps, and water treatment systems turtles need to get back on all four feet again.
Rehabbers never work alone, either. We’re excited to be working with Dr. Sherri Cox of the National Wildlife Centre! She’s bringing her passion and experience as a wildlife veterinarian to help our turtles. We also just returned from a trip to the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre, where we had a chance to learn from the experts there about how to help turtles in need.
Turtles have been on Earth, virtually unchanged, for 220 million years. They were here before the dinosaurs. We’re going to make sure they’re here for another 220 million.
Stay tuned for more exciting announcements!
