Island Wildlife Natural Care Centre, founded in 1997 by Jeff Lederman is a registered charity dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of sick, injured and orphaned wild animals. We have earned permits from the Ministry of the Environment, Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Island Wildlife responds to calls regarding all indigenous species from the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and Vancouver Island. A volunteer is always available to pick up and safely transport wildlife.

          In addition to conventional veterinary protocols we utilize alternative, non-toxic treatments such as herbal tinctures, homeopathy and physical therapies. We have found that this comprehensive approach affords our wild patients the best chance for survival.  We believe that the quality of life is everything. In keeping with that philosophy we maintain no display animals or permanent captives. Island Wildlife is a wildlife hospital.

          We are often told that many of the species we treat are not threatened populations. While this may be true, the work we do means everything to a fawn who has just been made an orphan by an automobile, to a harbour seal dying slowly on the beach because its mother drowned in a fishing net, or to a bald eagle flightless and dying from lead poisoning.

          We see animals as independent lives, not as populations. If today we can prevent the needless suffering of a single animal, then we have done important work.