Eastern Wildlife Center Home Page
A facility for the care and rehabilitation
of orphaned and injured wildlife.
Founded in 1992, Eastern Wildlife Center (EWC) has provided to all local rehabilitators a place to use for prerelease acclimation. We provide formula, medicines, and veterinarian care free of charge to promote their efforts and needs in wildlife rehabilitation.
Our home is Pitt County, the crossroads of travel into the swamps and marshes of the coastal plain in northeastern North Carolina. It contains a unique variety of animals including waterfowl and water mammals. We have to be very diverse in our knowledge of species from bald eagles to river otters.
Our leadership is from state and federal rehabilitators, veterinarians schooled in wildlife and exotic medicine, individuals with backgrounds in wildlife management, biology, and public education, nature park directors and an operating room nurse.
We admit any mammal or bird native to N.C. We do reptile consultations and shell repair. Through the assistance of a terrific group of Vets and their staffs, we are able to perform intricate surgeries, that before would have meant an 80 mile trip to North Carolina State University Veterinary School.
We are assisted by the East Carolina University School of Medicine with the use of their state of the art surgical suite for complicated surgical repairs, led by their staff of Vets and Technicians, 2 of whom are board members.
Our Vice President is a locally born and raised veterinarian who has been a licensed rehabilitator for over 12 years. His office provides expert knowledge on identification, treatments, and surgery.
Our rehabilitation director works for another group of veterinarians, that in the last two years, have gone above the call and led us with their enthusiasm to help. Patients may stay there, receiving post-operative care, for weeks.
These important pieces of the pie enable EWC to concentrate on the outdoor facility and not worry about money for a building to house these animals.
We are exploring a new way to provide wildlife rehabilitation in the East that includes an assortment of facilities and people throughout the county and surrounding areas. Eastern Wildlife Center provides the much needed outdoor cages for release acclimation on a private lot, belonging to the corporation, and available to anyone who needs it.
Visitors to this page for Eastern Wildlife Center since Feb, 2001.
