Volunteer Opportunities
Texas Metro Wildlife Rehabilitators is a 100% volunteer, non-profit organization. There are many volunteer opportunities within TMWR.
Wildlife rehabilitation is a learned skill. To work directly with wildlife, the laws of the State of Texas require that you must learn under the supervision of a permitted rehabilitator.
Available volunteer work that involves interaction with animals:
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Foster Parent(s) - Feed, care, and monitor growth of our babies; all under the supervision and training of a permitted rehabilitator.
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Transport - Pick up and deliver supplies or transport wildlife.
How Do I Volunteer?
To be a volunteer, you must:
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Be 18 years of age or older.
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Attend a volunteer orientation class.
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Attend an animal species class.
To start the volunteer process, please register for one of our scheduled orientation classes.
Available volunteer work that has minimal to no interaction with animals:
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Special Projects - Many projects are suitable for groups such as scouts and classrooms. They provide great learning opportunity and are helpful to the wildlife.
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Making cages
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Nesting boxes (scroll below of details)
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Snuggle beds
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Clerical - Keep track of paper work, maintain data base up-to-date, create forms, make phone calls, etc.
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Outreach program - Contact public or private organizations who might be interested in learning more about what we do. Become a presenter.
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Fundraising - We welcome new ideas. If this is what you like to do, we need you!
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Media - Take pictures and videos of our wildlife and update website photo albums. If you are a social media influencer wanting to make a meaningful impact, contact us!
There are many more opportunities where we need your help. Remember, that no help is too small!
What is a Nesting Box and Why Do We Need Them?
Just like nests and dens built by the mothers in the wild, nesting boxes play a critical role in the wildlife rehabilitation life cycle process. There are nesting boxes for bats, birds, squirrels, and other species. Each animal species have different nesting box requirements.
Contact us if you are interested in building and donating these to our volunteers, we use these to release squirrels back into the wild. Consider this as a group activity for classroom or scouts!