Mission
Wildlife Response, Inc (WRI) is dedicated to the preservation of wildlife through rehabilitation and education. One of the most universal challenges today in the battle to save wild things and wild places is how to bond people to the physical world in a powerful enough way to give them the motivation to want to protect and preserve it. It is especially important in our growing suburban and urban communities to increase significant associations connecting people and nature, especially where natural environments and natural experiences are less and less common. On a local level, the steady arrival of new residents to the Hampton Roads area is having a overwhelming impact on our wildlife and natural environment. As we accommodate this progression, it is essential that people who now call the Hampton Roads area home understand the sensitive balance of human and non-human populations, the affect we have on the natural environment, and the best ways in which we can coexist.

Purposes and Goals
Wildlife Response, Inc. has two associated, yet distinct, purposes or goals. Our primary purpose is:
To treat and rehabilitate sick, injured, and foster orphaned wild animals with the goal of releasing them back into the wild.

We accomplish this by:
Maintaining and supplying a wildlife rehabilitation network to properly care for wildlife in need of assistance
Offering the latest training for our members and other licensed rehabilitators

In light of the fact that most problems wild animals encounter are related to people, either directly or indirectly, our second purpose is:
To give assistance and advice in matters involving wildlife by promoting humane treatment of all wildlife through information, education, and community programs, so we can coexist with our wild neighbors.

More explicitly, our goals are to:
Enhance people’s understanding of nature and habitats and our wild neighbors that depend on those places for their continued existence.
Make the case for why protecting wild things and wild places is not only ethically sound but will also help to safeguard our own survival.
Increase awareness about how our natural and man made environments interconnect.