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PHS and CRC Join Forces for Animal Welfare
By PATRICIA CELENZA PHS Press Officer Placencia Humane Society placibr@btl.net
In October 1999, the Placencia Humane Society (PHS), a non-profit animal welfare group, was founded to provide quality professional veterinarian services to pets in our community. Over these 19 years, PHS has expanded to include a monthly vet clinic, a Feral Cat Program, the Seine Bight Outreach Clinic and a Rescue/Foster/Adoption Program.
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Like PHS, fellow non-profit Crocodile Research Coalition (CRC), also continues to grow. CRC has become more than just an organization responsible for the research and management of crocodiles and their habitat and surrounding wildlife. Over the past two and a half years, CRC has assisted partner organizations (such as Belize Bird Rescue and Wildtracks) in responding to wildlife injuries, many times acting as a mini-wildlife triage center until transportation could be arranged to the appropriate veterinary or rehabilitation facilities for injured or ill wildlife. Through national and international support and donations, CRC is in the process of building a fully-equipped wildlife triage center for the wildlife of southern Belize.
Given our mutual work in animal welfare, including responding to injured animals, CRC has extended their collaboration partners to PHS. Through this collaboration, we anticipate we can obtain more of the basic veterinary equipment and supplies needed to care for injured and ill wildlife, dogs and cats. This partnership will further enrich basic veterinary assistance to provide animals a higher chance of survival.
This collaboration officially began on Oct. 13, 2018 with a basic wildlife triage response workshop, provided by CRC supporter and donor Dr. Gary Harwell, a practicing exotic and domestic veterinarian based in Houston, Texas in the United States of America. CRC staff and PHS board members and volunteers attended this workshop. ▪
PHS volunteers join CRC staff and interns at a basic wildlife triage response workshop at the start of their official collaboration.
