The main aims of Cumbria based charity Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured wildlife and to alleviate suffering caused through accident, ignorance or abuse. They also rescue exotic animals that are kept as pets. They promote understanding and compassion of wild animals and discourage people keeping exotic species as pets. They provide sanctuary to those animals unfit to return to the wild or those species that are not native to the UK and therefore cannot be released. They have a no-kill policy.
The staff at Knoxwood hand-rear a large amount of baby birds and animals every year, including owls, ducks, foxes and badgers. Initially this is done in their wildlife hospital but as the animals grow they need exercise and space to develop their skills and get used to the weather outside. Knoxwood desperately needed some new all-purpose nursery pens to safely house the orphans while they exercise outside. Their existing enclosures were in a poor state, some of them over 20 years old, and could no longer be used.
Through the Charity Pot, we gave them a grant to allow them to buy six new nursery pens for their young animals. The pens arrived in early June 2009. Emma at Knoxwood told us “Just to let you know that we have our first babies in the new nursery today! We are so pleased with the new pens, they are safe and waterproof and absolutely perfect for the little ones, have a look at the pictures I have included and you will see how great they are!“
Some ducklings in one of the new pens
To find out more about Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue, please visit their website: www.wildliferescue.org.uk
