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$15,000 Goal
DFW Wildlife Coalition, Inc is a nonprofit providing a solution driven wildlife hotline serving the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area and surrounding twenty counties in North Texas. Our virtual hotline is one-of-a-kind nationwide and is active 365 days a year from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Central Time — offering guidance for wildlife emergencies, concerns, and conflicts.
The DFW Wildlife Coalition Hotline began in January of 2003 with three hundred telephone calls. Today, twenty-one years later, the hotline has responded to over 13,000 calls since January. Each call typically involves one or more animals, such as a nest of baby bunnies, birds, or a dozen ducklings. Each call provides life saving information and/or conflict resolutions which reduce orphaning and euthanasia of our Texas native wildlife.
DFW Wildlife Coalition is 100% volunteer operated. We receive no agency funding. We depend on individual donations and occasional grants. Your contributions benefit local North Texas wildlife.
Our hotline volunteers:
As the human population of North Texas grows, so does the number of human-wildlife interactions and hotline calls. The DFW Wildlife Coalition Hotline is only possible with the help of donations and volunteers.
The mission of the DFW Wildlife Coalition is to reduce the incidence of orphaned and euthanized native wildlife in the DFW metroplex through public outreach and education.
DONATIONS: Your $50 donation gives over 100 (calls) of our native wild animals a second chance to survive. Your support has a significant impact. Together, we can share our backyards and cities with our wild neighbors.
VOLUNTEER: Interested in volunteering with the hotline? We have two volunteer opportunities:
Tier 1 is the call center operator responding to the public's phone calls.
Tier 2 responds to public emails. They also lend a hand to the Tier 1 volunteers by returning voicemails during our busy season.
Your shift and volunteer duties are 100% virtual, making it possible for anyone to volunteer, even folks from outside of North Texas or individuals with disabilities. You will need a phone, an internet connection, and a computer.
By joining our team of over seventy volunteers, you will meet kindred spirits making a difference for the wildlife in your neighborhood and city. You can impact a single wild animal’s life or a nest full of babies with each phone call. Experience the joy of reuniting a baby squirrel with its mother or assisting a caller in successfully evicting a mother raccoon from their attic. While ensuring mother raccoon can safely take her babies with her. Our volunteers report that their shifts help them see the good in people, like a busy executive stopping to rescue an animal in need.
Speaking of busy, our volunteers are busy individuals, and this opportunity is designed to allow for that. Our volunteers commit to a 2 or 3-hour shift once a week that can be done from any location. We provide volunteers with resources, education, mentors, and access to fellow volunteers. All the tools you will need to make a lifesaving difference.
Volunteering is truly a rewarding opportunity if you love helping people and love animals. Join our "wild" family today! Email or call us at volunteer@dfwwildlife.org or call 972-234-WILD (9453).
DFW Wildlife Coalition welcomes all people. We recognize the rights of individuals to live their lives with dignity, free of discrimination based on their faith, race, gender, disability, national origin, or immigration status.
Organization name
DFW Wildlife Coalition, Inc. Hotline
other names
DFW Wildlife Hotline
Causes
Animals
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Hunt, Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hood, Grayson, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
P.O. Box 833523