As with every organization there is a time where it needs to change to grow. Wildlife Response, Inc. ("WRI") is at this point. We NEED a center to be able to advance our mission. WRI's hotline receiving over 11,000 calls a year proves this. Our team of permitted wildlife rehabilitators receiving thousands of wild animals each year proves this. WRI's education programs, reaching out to the thousands, proves this. WRI leadership saw this need years ago when we started the process of researching available land for a center in 2005 after the City of Virginia Beach's adoption