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Three volunteers wearing gloves feed baby squirrels at the Wildlife Clinic

Wildlife Clinic Volunteer Training

As the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation clinic in the city of Philadelphia, the Wildlife Clinic at the Schuylkill Center takes in thousands of sick, injured, and orphaned animals each year. Our small team of clinic staff relies on the support of dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers to care for native small mammals, birds, raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. Start on your path to become one of our dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers in 2025 at one of our five available training sessions!

Volunteer Training Requirements

Before starting work in the clinic, volunteers must attend a training session, submit a volunteer waiver and application, and complete online ethics/safety courses. Clinic support volunteers must be at least 16 years old and work two 4-hour shifts per month. Animal care volunteers have to be at least 18 years old and commit to a weekly 4-hour shift. Further requirements and expectations can be found on our volunteer page and will be covered during the volunteer training sessions.

Available Training Sessions

In-person training sessions will be held on February 8, February 24, and March 1. Virtual training sessions will be held on February 10 and February 22. Registration is required. Meeting links to the virtual training sessions will be sent out via email on the day of the event.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

 

Sign Up for a Training Session

Two women cut up fruit and vegetables for animals in the kitchen of the Wildlife Clinic.

Wildlife Clinic Volunteer Training

As the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation clinic in the city of Philadelphia, the Wildlife Clinic at the Schuylkill Center takes in thousands of sick, injured, and orphaned animals each year. Our small team of clinic staff relies on the support of dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers to care for native small mammals, birds, raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. Start on your path to become one of our dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers in 2025 at one of our five available training sessions!

Volunteer Training Requirements

Before starting work in the clinic, volunteers must attend a training session, submit a volunteer waiver and application, and complete online ethics/safety courses. Clinic support volunteers must be at least 16 years old and work two 4-hour shifts per month. Animal care volunteers have to be at least 18 years old and commit to a weekly 4-hour shift. Further requirements and expectations can be found on our volunteer page and will be covered during the volunteer training sessions.

Available Training Sessions

In-person training sessions will be held on February 8, February 24, and March 1. Virtual training sessions will be held on February 10 and February 22. Registration is required. Meeting links to the virtual training sessions will be sent out via email on the day of the event.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

 

Sign Up for a Training Session

A baby squirrel is fed via a syringe with gloved hands.

Virtual Wildlife Clinic Volunteer Training

As the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation clinic in the city of Philadelphia, the Wildlife Clinic at the Schuylkill Center takes in thousands of sick, injured, and orphaned animals each year. Our small team of clinic staff relies on the support of dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers to care for native small mammals, birds, raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. Start on your path to become one of our dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers in 2025 at one of our five available training sessions!

Volunteer Training Requirements

Before starting work in the clinic, volunteers must attend a training session, submit a volunteer waiver and application, and complete online ethics/safety courses. Clinic support volunteers must be at least 16 years old and work two 4-hour shifts per month. Animal care volunteers have to be at least 18 years old and commit to a weekly 4-hour shift. Further requirements and expectations can be found on our volunteer page and will be covered during the volunteer training sessions.

Available Training Sessions

In-person training sessions will be held on February 8, February 24, and March 1. Virtual training sessions will be held on February 10 and February 22. Registration is required. Meeting links to the virtual training sessions will be sent out via email on the day of the event.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

 

Sign Up for a Training Session

A baby squirrel is fed via a syringe with gloved hands.

Virtual Wildlife Clinic Volunteer Training

As the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation clinic in the city of Philadelphia, the Wildlife Clinic at the Schuylkill Center takes in thousands of sick, injured, and orphaned animals each year. Our small team of clinic staff relies on the support of dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers to care for native small mammals, birds, raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. Start on your path to become one of our dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers in 2025 at one of our five available training sessions!

Volunteer Training Requirements

Before starting work in the clinic, volunteers must attend a training session, submit a volunteer waiver and application, and complete online ethics/safety courses. Clinic support volunteers must be at least 16 years old and work two 4-hour shifts per month. Animal care volunteers have to be at least 18 years old and commit to a weekly 4-hour shift. Further requirements and expectations can be found on our volunteer page and will be covered during the volunteer training sessions.

Available Training Sessions

In-person training sessions will be held on February 8, February 24, and March 1. Virtual training sessions will be held on February 10 and February 22. Registration is required. Meeting links to the virtual training sessions will be sent out via email on the day of the event.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

 

Sign Up for a Training Session

Three volunteers wearing gloves feed baby squirrels at the Wildlife Clinic

Wildlife Clinic Volunteer Training

As the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation clinic in the city of Philadelphia, the Wildlife Clinic at the Schuylkill Center takes in thousands of sick, injured, and orphaned animals each year. Our small team of clinic staff relies on the support of dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers to care for native small mammals, birds, raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. Start on your path to become one of our dedicated Wildlife Clinic volunteers in 2025 at one of our five available training sessions!

Volunteer Training Requirements

Before starting work in the clinic, volunteers must attend a training session, submit a volunteer waiver and application, and complete online ethics/safety courses. Clinic support volunteers must be at least 16 years old and work two 4-hour shifts per month. Animal care volunteers have to be at least 18 years old and commit to a weekly 4-hour shift. Further requirements and expectations can be found on our volunteer page and will be covered during the volunteer training sessions.

Available Training Sessions

In-person training sessions will be held on February 8, February 24, and March 1. Virtual training sessions will be held on February 10 and February 22. Registration is required. Meeting links to the virtual training sessions will be sent out via email on the day of the event.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

 

Sign Up for a Training Session

The Real March Madness

It’s hugely exciting times for college hoops fans, awash in basketball games where they breathlessly wait to see if, oh, the Grand Canyon University Antelopes beat the Iowa Hawkeyes, or if Creighton holds off UCSB, whatever that is. Wait, there is a Grand Canyon University?! Some $1.5 billion will be bet legally over all the new gambling apps, almost 40 million Americans will fill out those brackets, gallons of newspaper ink will be spilled, and sports analysts will natter on for hours. “Bracketology” will trend on Twitter; coaches’ heads will roll.  Over 19-year-old kids playing hoops. Welcome to March Madness. …

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Nature’s Music At-Home Activities

This week’s nature kits focus on the different sounds that we hear outside. From the calling of birds to the whistling of wind to the crunching of leaves—nature is alive with its own special type of music.  Every Saturday, nature kits have been given out on a first-come, first-served basis from 10:00 am–12:00 pm. Nature kits focus on a different theme each week and are meant to be done along our trails. If you can’t make it out to the Center to pick up a kit, make sure to check our blog each week for ways to get in some…

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Naughty by Nature: A Valentine’s Day Special Event

Birds do it, bees do it, and sentimental fleas? Don’t even ask.  In celebration of the coming Valentine’s Day holiday, the Schuylkill Center cordially invites you to a special edition of our new Thursday Night Live series. “Naughty by Nature” features the amazing stories of sex and courtship in the animal kingdom, as these stories are extraordinary and just not shared often enough. I’ll be offering this PG-13 lecture on Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. The event is free, but you’ll need to register and get the Zoom link.  Animals possess a wide range of adaptations to court their mates.…

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At-Home Nature Exploration: Animals in Winter

COVID-19 has forced the Schuylkill Center to pivot and reimagine many of our programs. At the beginning of September, we began to reinvent our popular Schuylkill Saturday program so that families could explore our trails through self-guided activities available in Nature Kits. Every Saturday, Nature Kits have been given out on a first-come, first-served basis from 10:00 am–12:00 pm. Nature kits focus on a different theme each week and are meant to be done along our trails. Since the start of our nature kit program, we have seen more than 800 people come out and have handed out over 450…

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News Flash: Beavers in Roxborough!

One of the feel-good stories on the environmental scene is the rewilding of large cities like Philadelphia, where suddenly peregrine falcons nest in church steeples and on Delaware River bridges, bald eagles pull large fish out of the Schuylkill River, and coyotes amble down Domino Lane. In that vein, members of the Roxborough-Manayunk Conservancy were somewhat startled to discover that the restoration plantings they’ve doggedly placed along the Schuylkill River have been devoured by…beavers! Wait, beavers in Roxborough? Once extirpated—a fancy word meaning locally extinct—across Pennsylvania, hunted because their fur was remarkably valuable and because we did not appreciate their ability…

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