50 animals will make the trip in carriers to their new home near Spruce Grove today. The Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton, which takes in injured wildlife from across northern Alberta, moved from the University of Alberta farm to a spacious new facility.
The new property is located on Pioneer Road and has woods and wetlands, including a portion of Atim Creek.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada and Ducks Unlimited jointly own the property, which also contains a house that could be used as office space for the society. There will be no rent, though it will have to pay utilities to the property owners.
"We all agreed it probably made more eminent sense to collaborate and extend a little bit of NCC’s ability to provide land to help out a worthy cause that’s closely related to what we do," said Bob Demulder, regional vice-president of the conservancy. "We talked about them using our land to rehab animals and then to potentially use some of our properties to do releases."
Despite the new facility, the same hotline for injured wildlife is still available (780-914-4118) and drop offs are still taken at local veterinary clinics across the city if people don’t want to drive to the shelter.
With files from the Journal
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