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WFLF FOUNDER, Katia Louise |
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A message from our founder ~
 " With human encroachment on natural habitats a constant feature of our modern world, Wild For Life Foundation has oftentimes been the first and the only place where injured, orphaned and homeless equines could find refuge. Wild For Life Foundation provides rescue, rehabilitation, adoption and sanctuary services for at risk wild and domestic equines in need. At Wild For Life Foundation these vulnerable victims receive the urgent and ongoing care they need as based WFLF's standards of equine care and nationally recognized best practices and protocols for equine rescue, sanctuary and rehabilitation. Wild For Life Foundation delivers an important public service by providing a place where orphaned, distressed, injured, or displaced horses and burros get a second chance at life and are able to thrive and live out their lives in peace and safety.
The vast challenges facing America’s animals, wildlife and their natural habitats are immense. Through your generous contribution of time, resources and talent toward WFLF’s continuing lifesaving mission and WFLF's acquisition of land to serve its mission, you will be taking an active role in assuring preservation and the permanent care and safety of these precious resources for generations to come. The Wild For Life Foundation needs and respectfully seeks your support. We can’t do this work without you. You make our healing and lifesaving work possible."
- Katia Louise, Founder, President, Volunteer Executive Director
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, VOLUNTEER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Katia Louise
Wild For Life Foundation (WFLF) began through the vision and hard work of its founder, Katia Louise. Katia Louise, aka 'Red Horse Spirit Hawk' of the Elk clan, is a proud descendent of the Oglala Lakota Sioux. She first seeded the founding of the Wild for Life Foundation in 2008. Katia Louise is well recognized and highly respected in the animal welfare community for her professional integrity, and devotion to animal protection. Katia's selfless charity work has raised the bar for animal protection in the U.S. and elevated compassion on a global level. Katia continues to dedicate her life and altruistic work in animal rescue, humane education and animal cruelty prevention.
Katia is a highly regarded and inspirational speaker on the topic of animal welfare and equine issues, and she is also the international award winning director and producer of SAVING AMERICA'S HORSES A NATION BETRAYED. As a documentarian and academic humane researcher, Katia has authored many published investigative studies, reports and papers on equine welfare issues. Katia has worked for years behind the scenes in effort to bring justice and exposure to the issues of animal cruelty, with a focus in the U.S. and in California’s as related to equine cruelty, neglect, and the illegal underground slaughter pipeline. Through the investigation of these issues she's came across a number of helpless horses trapped in the seedy underground pipeline and on the verge of shipping to slaughter, and Katia stepped and she saved them. Many of the costs for the animals rescued over the years by WFLF have been footed by Ms. Louise and her husband. As news spread, donations and grants supporting WFLF's rescue and sanctuary program have grown over the years, enabling WFLF to increase the number of lives saved from a handful each year to hundreds.
In July 2018, Wild For Life Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary of success in awarding winning charitable services and impeccable compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and operational policies. The Wild For Life Foundation has built a solid reputation based on integrity and compassion with its extraordinary work in advocacy and hands-on care for animals in desperate need of help. We are deeply committed to these majestic sentient beings and we are devoted to upholding and carrying out our mission to save, protect, preserve and defend them through education advocacy, rescue and sanctuary.
 Katia Louise volunteers her time, resources, talents and services to carry out WFLF's valuable lifesaving mission. Katia is director of “Saving America’s Horses: A Nation Betrayed”, whichhas won multiple international awards including Best Documentary Film in Los Angeles and Best EnvironmentalFilm in Canada, and was released to theaters bi-coastally with qualification for the Academy Awards. Katia is also the founder of the Saving America's Horses Initiative, an international consortium of equine veterinarians, equestrian professionals, equine welfare experts, researchers, horse advocates, scientists, film and television artists, and concerned citizens working in concert to promote wild  horse preservation initiatives with a focus on the prevention of equine cruelty and ending the slaughter of America's horses. Ms Louise is the recipient ofmultiple international awards recognizing her work in Advocacy, Conservation, Animal Welfare and Protection. The results of Katia's investigations and academic research, as well as her white papers, articles, documentaries and publications have been featured in international news publications and syndicated news. Katia continues her life work in animal rescue, humane academic research and education on a voluntarily basis for WFLF .
The Wild For Life Foundation is a Certified, Trusted, Fully Vetted, Top Rated and Awarded Charity
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