Home For Life
The Home For Life Campaign is an appeal to raise $19
million to secure a new permanent site and build a new wildlife animal sanctuary
in the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California.
The park's animals have already cheated death once, and are among the more
than 8,000 injured, abandoned, or endangered wildlife rescued and rehabilitated
at Moonridge Animal Park since it opened in 1959. The current park is small and
becoming overcrowded with rescued animals.
Also, The 50 year lease expired February 2010. Now rather than paying $1 per year
for the 2.5 acres, the park has to pay $5,000 a month rent!
Spearheaded by the non-profit Friends of the Moonridge Zoo, the Home
For Life campaign is an urgent drive to build a new home where every
Moonridge Animal Park inhabitant can live their life.
Vital support, in the form of private donations, is being sought to
supplement limited federal and state grant monies for the move. Funds raised
in the Home For Life campaign will go towards the phased development of
a new facility, and the task of physically moving the animals to their
permanent new home.
As the only alpine forest zoo specializing in native alpine animals in the entire United States, the Moonridge
Animal Park's mission is to promote an understanding of alpine forest wildlife
to produce harmony between humans and nature. Each year with the help of
trained docents, Moonridge Animal Park offers hundreds of educational programs
for school children, youth organizations, families, and visitors from around
the world. Endangered and threatened species are among the zoo's wild but
non-releasable inhabitants. The animals represent 80 different alpine and
sub-alpine species, predominantly native to California.
Please support Home For Life today! Your
tax-deductible donation will help make the difference between life and
death for these beautiful animals!
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