Volunteering at WildCare

Lend A Hand

As a nonprofit organization we depend upon the commitment of over 300 volunteers to help staff our programs, including our core animal aid and education programs. Each year over 35,000 hours of time are given to educate 40,000 Bay Area children and adults and treat more than 3,000 wild animals. If you care deeply about our connection with wildlife and want to help ensure a healthy co-existence between humans and animals, please volunteer. All training is provided.

	Be a Wildlife Hospital Volunteer Join our wildlife rehabilitation team and learn to feed, handle, care for, and release over 200 species of sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals. Wildlife Rehabilitators with a year of experience are eligible to become foster caregivers, providing round-the-clock care to orphaned animals. Click to learn more...
	Become a Terwilliger Nature Guide Learn the renowned teaching techniques of Elizabeth Terwilliger! Get to know the plants, animals, habitats, and ecology of Marin and Sonoma counties, then share that knowledge with eager students by leading discovery hikes full of exploration and adventure. Click to learn more...
	Answer the Living With Wildlife Hotline WildCare’s Living With Wildlife Hotline fields more than 2,500 calls a year from the Bay Area and beyond. By helping someone through a wildlife emergency, you can make a big difference in the life of a wild animal. Click to learn more...
	Age 12 - 17? Be a Student Volunteer WildCare’s Student Volunteer Program creates a unique bond between adults and young teens. Students ages 12 through 17 work side by side with adult staff and volunteers to help wildlife and the environment through wildlife rehabilitation and nature education. Click to learn more... Be a Summer Nature Camp Assistant and earn community service hours! Read more...
	Gain Experience as a Wildlife Intern Interns have the opportunity to work hands-on with our wild patients and gain extensive experience learning from our medical staff. WildCare offers unpaid internships in our wildlife rehabilitation hospital during the spring and summer months. Click to learn more...
	Reach Out as an Outreach Volunteer Outreach volunteers help WildCare communicate with the community by lending their professional skills to areas such as fundraising, photography and event planning, mailings and database maintenance. They also build and repair cages, contribute produce to help feed our patients and transport animals in their cars to other facilities—or to be released. Click to learn more...
Getting Started All new volunteers must attend an orientation or training before they may begin volunteering at WildCare. Adults (ages 18 and older) wishing to volunteer in the Wildlife Hospital, as Living with Wildlife Hotline operators, as Interns or as Outreach and Admin Volunteers must attend a New Volunteer Orientation. Please click for upcoming orientation dates. Student Volunteer orientations (for young people ages 12 - 17) are held 1 - 3 times a year depending on space availability. Nature Guide training is offered twice a year in spring and fall. Classes are held on five Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Upcoming training dates will be posted soon. You must register in advance for all orientations and trainings. To save your place, please call 415-453-1000 x21 or e-mail volunteer@wildcarebayarea.org.