MIAMI (WSVN) - The Pelican Harbor Seabird Station broke new ground on a new wildlife hospital and education center.
The 8,000-square-foot building will be featured along Northeast 82nd Terrace, close to the Miami-based facility’s current station. It will include advanced treatment rooms, expanded habitats for resident animals, an expansive room dedicated to environmental education programming, and six permanent exhibits designed to teach visitors the importance of conservation.
The added space will help the station rehabilitate injured animals more efficiently.
“This new facility allows us to treat more animals and give them better care,” said Robert Glidewell, the chairman of Pelican Harbor Seabird Station. “We’re going to have a lot more rehab areas and treatment rooms, our surgical center is going to be much larger, so we can treat more animals to a higher level than we’ve ever been able to do before.”
Pelican Harbor has treated over 45,000 wildlife patients since its founding in 1980, rescuing over 2,000 birds in 2024 alone. The expansion represents a significant step forward in the organization’s mission to provide care to injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife, as well as an increased opportunity to engage the public in environmental conservation.
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