Education
Clear information helps people avoid unnecessary handling and make confident, compassionate choices.
About
About Pacific Wildlife Project
Pacific Wildlife Project is a Southern California humane wildlife organization founded in 1986 that provides wildlife guidance, education, and care support.
Founded in 1986
Long-standing local service
Grassroots and community-driven
Built through local support
Education and guidance
Guidance before intervention
Thousands of animals helped
Including years of annual treatment work
History
Decades of wildlife work
Founded in 1986, Pacific Wildlife Project grew as a grassroots, community-driven organization serving people and wildlife across Southern California.
The work has always depended on neighbors, volunteers, donors, and people willing to slow down and ask what a wild animal actually needs.
Across decades of wildlife care, education, and public guidance, that community support has helped Pacific Wildlife Project remain a trusted place to turn, including during years when thousands of animals were treated annually.
Founder
Our Founder
Linda McLeod-Evans
Founder & Master Wildlfie Rehabilitator
Linda McLeod-Evans founded and directs Pacific Wildlife Project, beginning the work in 1986 with the kind of grassroots, backyard care that grows from answering one animal's need at a time.
Her work has always been hands-on. It has meant caring for injured and orphaned wildlife, guiding worried callers, making difficult decisions, and helping volunteers and neighbors understand what humane help really looks like through years of direct experience.
Wildlife care can be demanding and emotional, but Linda's long commitment has helped shape Pacific Wildlife Project's practical standards for humane care.
Mission
Education, guidance, humane response, and care
The mission is practical and humane: help people understand wildlife situations, reduce harm, and support care or referrals when intervention is appropriate, guided by long-standing experience in wildlife care.
Guidance
Situation-specific support helps determine when to observe, when to act, and when a referral may help.
Humane care
When appropriate, the work supports rescue locally, ongoing care, and community response efforts.
Today
Education and guidance, grounded in care
Education and guidance are central to Pacific Wildlife Project's work. Many wildlife situations can be resolved safely with the right information, helping people make calm, informed decisions.
When appropriate, the organization supports care and local response efforts, while connecting people with suitable resources for their situation.
Response work
Major wildlife response efforts
Pacific Wildlife Project's history includes involvement in major wildlife response efforts, including work associated with the Salton Sea botulism response and other moments that required experienced, coordinated care.
Careful, community-supported work
These efforts reflect the kind of practical wildlife support that depends on experience, volunteers, supplies, partnerships, and steady donor support.
Support long-standing wildlife work
Pacific Wildlife Project's work is community-supported, long-standing, and rooted in humane guidance for real situations.