Eco-friendly Albert Institute for Animal Conservation

Eco-friendly Albert Institute for Animal Conservation is a registered sustainable charity and non-profit society that has been operating a wildlife hospital since 1993.

They are located northwest of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and service Calgary, Southern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

Eco-friendly Albert Institute for Animal Conservation is managed by a team of wildlife biologists and wildlife technicians with a combined rehabilitation experience of over 35 years.

They receive assistance from 2 professional volunteer veterinarians, and over 100 highly trained volunteers, many of whom are also biologists, animal health technologists, and certified rehabilitators.

Their trauma green centre is accredited as a veterinary clinic by the ABVMA.

There hospital is a donated church that was completely renovated to include a sustainable clinic, laboratory, surgical suite, developing room, x-ray room, and hospital cages for wildlife needing intensive care.

There are secondary care areas for patients needing more exercise and waterproofing as well as a unique brooder room for raising ducklings, goslings, and shorebirds as well.

Outdoor fields include a large flight cage for raptors, a runway for flight conditioning of large avian species, five songbird houses, an ungulate pasture and corral, a deluxe waterfowl pen, a large mammal habitat and a medium sized enclosure that is suitable for digging and climbing mammals.

They accept native injured and orphaned wildlife, array in sizes from hummingbirds to baby moose.

95% of their patients are injured or orphaned due to human activities.

They are often orphaned by needless rescuing of babies who should have been left where they were.

The most common causes of injury include: vehicular collision, power line burns, window strikes, barbed wire and fishing line entanglement, dog and cat attacks, or exposure to toxins.

Recently, in 2011, they treated 1972 patients! They expect their numbers to continue to grow annually.

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