Belize Wildlife & Referral Clinic

We have now registered the Clinic, and our main focus is fundraising. Once we have commenced building we will build a full and detailed web page for the Clinic. Below are our mission and objectives, please contact us with any questions. Watch this space...

March 2012: We are in the process of establishing and booking internships for later this year. These will be based at the clinic but will feature visits to many other conservation and animal rehabilitation entities around Belize. Please contact us for more information or a booking form!

We have a wishlist! Please click here to view the extensive list of supplies and equipment needed to set up the clinic. If you have anything on the list we need and you can get it to us, then we want it!

BWCN's most recent rescue: currently being assessed to possibly be reunited with her mother. This 3 month old youngster and her mother were hit by a car at the Community Baboon Sanctuary. The mother ran off, leaving the baby in the road with concussion. BWCN worked in coordination with local partners to get the baby to medical help and first aid administered. Wildtracks primate rehabilitators are now monitoring her progress and are watching for signs of continued head trauma. Keep your fingers crossed for this little one..

20/1/2012 update: Little Pea is recovering extremely well at Wildtracks. Please visit their Facebook page for more information!

Mission: To support wildlife conservation efforts; domestic animal health and welfare; and the veterinary profession in Belize through medical services, education, research, and collaboration.

Objectives for the BWRC:

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1. Establish and manage a state of the art clinic;

2. Provide referral services;

3. Provide educational opportunities and training for students, professionals and interested individuals;

4. Support research in areas related to wildlife conservation and conservation medicine.

In Detail:

1. Medical objectives of the BWRC:

-Rescue, and when possible, rehabilitate injured, orphaned, displaced or otherwise imperiled wildlife in cooperation with existing facilities and the Forest Department;

-Assist Forest Department in providing health assessments for captive and confiscated wildlife;

-Provide medical services for wildlife patients in the different existing rescue and rehabilitation centers.

2. Objectives for referral services:

-Provide medical and diagnostic treatment and equipment otherwise unaffordable to the individual clinician;

-Provide training for local practitioners to use the equipment;

-Advance animal health and welfare.

3. Educational objectives of the BWRC: to facilitate, develop and offer classes, professional training workshops and internships in areas including within others:

-Wildlife Biology, Medicine and Conservation;

-Parasitology ;

-Wildlife Conflict Resolution;

-Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation. Spartacus

-Also to assist regional organisations with development of educational materials.

4. Research objectives: to facilitate research and cooperate with researchers in areas including:

-Conservation Medicine;

-Wildlife Biology, Medicine and Conservation;

-Parasitology;

-Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation.

Thanks to all those who voted and helped us to win the Heska "Inspiration in Action" contest, we will work on creating the following benefits for Belize:

-Availability of medical equipment and referral services currently unavailable to most of the veterinary profession in Belize including x-ray and gas anaesthesia;

-Availability of diagnostics and medical care for injured, diseased, captive, confiscated or rescued wild animals;

-Training/educational opportunities and capacity building in veterinary and wildlife medicine, tropical medicine for national and international students, professionals and individuals;

-Public education opportunities in wildlife, human wildlife conflict and resolution, conservation, animal welfare and issues pertaining to zoonotic diseases;

-Support to increase de-worming in domestic animals nationwide;

-Collection of data on prevalence of parasitic and zoonotic diseases in domestic animals and wildlife.

Why we desperately need a clinic in Belize: Dr Isabelle administers first aid to a baby howler monkey in the back of a pickup truck. In times of emergency then we "make do" but quiet, sanitary, and properly equipped facilities are essential to do the best we can for injured wildlife.