Wild For Life Foundation

SERVICES AND PROGRAM OBJECTIVES Served by our Lifesaving Mission

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Wild For Life Foundation is a volunteer driven nonprofit organization devoted to making a difference for animals in desperate need.

Our equine rescue and protection program, Lifetime Equine Refuge provides rescue, custodial care, health and medical treatment, rehab, training, placement services and sanctuary to help and improve the lives of desperate horses in neglected and abusive situations. We also help special needs and at-risk equines who may have no other options remaining. We provide life saving services for equines in life threatening situations, including equines listed for euthanasia and slaughter-bound equines. We provide a second chance at life for Thoroughbreds off the racetrack through rehab, training and placement services.

We are a no-kill animal rescue and sanctuary program and we rely 100% on tax deductible donations to carry out these services.

PROJECT AND PROGRAMMING DETAIL:

EQUINE RESCUE, RECOVERY & PROTECTION

Through our equine rescue, recovery and protection program we provide lifesaving and custodial care services for at-risk wild and domestic equines. We are dedicated to providing charitable animal protection services for the prevention of animal cruelty, including aid and direct care for abused, neglected, slaughter bound and other at-risk equines of all breeds, ages and disabilities, and we strive to assure their life-long safety, peace and health.

THOROUGHBRED RESCUE

Through our Thoroughbred rescue and sanctuary program we provide lifesaving services for at-risk horses - that through no fault of their own, didn't measure up in the racing industry - whether they were injured, too slow, or for some other reason, their lives became at-risk. Lifesaving rescue, quality care, rehab, enrichment and training enhance their successful recovery, transition and forever safe placement through support of this program.

SPECIAL NEEDS ANIMALS AND SENIOR CARE

Wild For Life Foundation’s Special Needs and Senior Care Project serves to provide ongoing aid to the animals who most critically need our help. Our project objectives include provision of nutritional food and supplements, medical, health and general care, safety-net and placement services and education programming for the direct benefit of at-risk senior and special needs equines, displaced equines, equines with disabilities and equines past their prime in life who are facing threatening, neglectful and abusive situations, with no other options remaining.  To secure the safe future of these equines so they can be cared for and live out their lives in sanctuary, or when possible, be placed through foster, prepared for adoption, or reunited with their families.

GENERAL REHABILITATION & RECOVERY

With your support, rehabilitation, enrichment and training services enhance the successful recovery, transition and placement of abused, neglected and injured and otherwise at risk equines under the Wild For Life Foundation.

SANCTUARY PROGRAM

Sanctuary services are offered for at-risk equines of most every breed and discipline. The equines we serve were saved from unspeakable cruelty or life threatening danger, including slaughter, abuse, neglect and displacement as a result of seizure, starvation, roundups, euthanasia, and in limited cases of extreme emergency, surrender by their previous owner(s). WFLF's Sanctuary and Recovery Program serves all ages and breeds including senior and special needs equines, injured and disabled equines , and equines who have been so severely traumatized that they need to live out the remainder of their lives in a peaceful sanctuary setting. These rescued equines are offered an opportunity to live out their lives in safety and peace under WFLF's program.

WILD HORSE & BURRO SANCTUARY PROGRAM

Rescued wild equines saved from life threatening situations are given an opportunity to heal and thrive in safe and peaceful settings. Fundamental to the core of WFLF’s equine sanctuary program is our commitment to provide safe harbor for each and every animal that comes through our doors.

EDUCATIONAL MULTI-MEDIA PROGRAM

Saving America's Horses is the primary educational program and initative under WFLF. WFLF’s International Saving America’s Horses Initiative and its ‘Give Horses Hope’ campaign is dedicated to wild horse preservation and the prevention of equine cruelty through elevating lifesaving stewardship and the healing hearts of horses. The lifesaving program strives to bring crucial aid to horses and burros in need, and strives to inspire the public to take a more active role in protecting and caring for wild and domestic equines.

SAVING AMERICA'S HORSES; A NATION BETRAYED is an independent educational film project under Wild for Life Foundation, first released worldwide in 2010 through the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival where it won BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM. Subsequent festival cuts of the project were released thereafter through multiple festival screenings where the film won numerous international awards including BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM in Canada. The film project was then completely remastered and reformatted in conformance with ST 428-2:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master requirements as set by the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES for Academy qualification and was then released with Oscar consideration and exhibited through BI-COASTAL THEATRICAL RELEASE in 2012.

A 10 minute featurette version of the film is also available for licensed showing in multiple formats for short programming purposes. A series Advocacy Videos have also been produced through a compilation of excerpts from the film, and these remain available online through WFLF’s websites and social media forums as educational tools for the benefit of the horses. The theatrical version of the full length film is now available through Digital Distribution platforms. Visit www.SavingAmericasHorses.org to learn more.

 

WILD EQUINE INDIGENOUS HERITAGE PROJECT

WFLF’s Wild Equine Indigenous Heritage Project is dedicated to the preservation and lifesaving protection of America’s wild horses and burros and their heritage through the creation of sanctuary/ preserve programs, education and advocacy.

BACK TO THE WILD

Back to the Wild is a program under WFLF’s Wild Equine Indigenous Heritage Program which strives to preserve and protect America’s wild horses and burros in the wild. This program strives to raise awareness related to the recognition of equines as a Native Species to North America. Program objectives include 1) promoting the rejuvenation of ecosystems and wildlife through the re-introduction of wild equines to their natural open range-lands in the U.S., 2) providing the public with education and elevated appreciation for the continued protection and preservation of America's wild equines, 3) protection, preservation and outreach services to benefit equines residing in the wild, 4) rescue, placement and protection services for captured wild equines who've become imperiled, victimized, threatened, homeless and or slaughter bound due to roundups. Through this program we also promote their protection against extinction in the wild .

COMPANION ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY

WFLF has been at the forefront of efforts in the fight against the organized inhumane exploitation of canines including shelter cruelty, breed discrimination, vivisection, their use as food and fiber, and the inadequate standards of protection for the canine population as a whole. We have provided lifesaving rescue and a second chance at life to many homeless, distressed and displaced canines, including veterinary medical care, nourishing food, and housing.

 

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