Giving Wildlife a Second Chance

Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue heals sick and injured animals and prepares them for release back to the urban wild.  They also care for orphaned animals until they are able to live on their own.

When an injured or orphaned wildlife mammal is found, we nurse these animals back to a healthy state where they are able to be released back into the wild. Through education to children and adults alike, we try to raise awareness of these wild residents of our cities in the hope that a better co-habitation will lead to less injuries/orphans and more enjoyment of the urban wildlife with which we share our cities. 

As a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, Yggdrasil educates people of all ages in the wonder and enjoyment of wildlife and nature and why it is so vital we protect it.   Patience and compassion for urban wildlife helps the creatures to be viewed in a positive light by everyone- not as pests, but as important co-habitators of our environment.


We are a grassroots organization and are 100% volunteer-run and donation-funded!

Coral Reef Restoration Inspires "Voluntourism"

In the next few weeks, some springbreakers will forgo the "wild" life in Daytona and the Florida panhandle for undersea wildlife in the Keys. Ken Nedimyer has made volunteer vacations popular with his Coral Restoration Foundation.  The project is dedicated to rebuilding coral reefs and does so by farming coral off Florida's most southern coast.  Climate change, pollution, and overfishing have all contributed to the decline of corals which are tiny, stationary marine animals.  The corals spend about a year in an underwater nursery before being transplanted into the wild.

That passion led to Nedimyer starting the Coral Restoration Foundation, which has grown more than 25,000 staghorn and elkhorn corals in underwater nurseries. He and his staff of volunteers work three days a week maintaining the nurseries just off Key Largo. The nurseries cover more than an acre of the ocean floor. --CNN

The goal is to get them to reproduce on their own and repopulate an area where they no longer exist.  Once Nedimyer felt helpless, but now he see hope.  His is the largest underwater nursery in the Gulf and wider Caribbean.

Nedimyer and his Coral Restoration Foundation were recently spotlighted by CNN Heroes.

Tusk Trust Gets Princely Support

People and nature benefit mutually through a range of conservation projects funded by Tusk Trust.  The organization works in rural areas of Africa with the individuals who live closest to the continent's wildlife.  Schools, clinics, clean water projects, roads, bridges, and airfield are all developed with the protection of endangered species and the environment in mind:

"The Mukuu Spring water project in north Kenya is a case in point. At Mukuu a low technological water pump has been installed in the community spring to provide a clean and reliable source for the community and its livestock."  -Tusk Trust

The charity's focus is dedicated to substantial funding for the protection of many threatened animals like the elephant, rhino, cheetah, chimpanzee, mountain and lowland gorillas, giant sable and even marine species like turtles.  Protecting Africa's rich natural heritage is why sustainable development is so important.  Tusk Trust projects encourage education and help alleviate poverty.

Eighty percent of the money raised by Tusk Trust goes directly to their field work.