Let’s Get Giving

#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving, held the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and an opportunity for us to share our goals and the ways you can make an impact.

There are many ways to support us on #GivingTuesday, from sharing a slice with us at Papa’s Pizza, to posting why you believe in the CWC mission, and to supporting opening the Chintimini Wildlife Nature Center to the public!

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Share what you love about CWC

On #GivingTuesday, post about why you support Chintimini Wildlife Center and your favorite things about CWC’s place in our community! Make sure to tag Chintimini Wildlife so we can share!

Grab a bite at Papa’s Pizza in Corvallis

Mention Chintimini Wildlife Center and show this flyer and Papa’s Pizza will donate 50% for any in store or takeout purchase all day on December 3rd!

Donate cans and bottles!

From November 15th – Dec 2nd, bring your cans and bottles to CWC or donate in a blue bag with CWC sticker for an extra 20% on your donation! Questions?

Vision of Chintimini Wildlife Center’s future

If you’ve been following us this year, you know that we have admitted the most patients since 2020 (2,166 animals and counting!) and are getting close to our all-time highest year of patients. We are fundraising so that we may continue doing this work, and to accept the amount of patients we have been, making additional progress towards opening up the Nature Center for the public is the next step to help support the Wildlife Hospital.

Wildlife Admissions over Chintimini Wildlife Center’s history, illustrating sharp increases in the last two years, back to 2019-2020 all-time highs

We will continue the goal of becoming a public, visitor-friendly destination providing education and the experience of seeing wildlife ambassadors up close and personal. The plans below illustrate the prospective Nature Center, as well as the already completed areas, and how you can support the continuation of this goal.

To do this, we are raising funds to continue to build bigger and better homes for our Raptor Ambassadors, and construct a permanent home for our Reptile and Invertebrate Ambassadors.

South Nature Center plans, courtesy of Chintimini Wildlife Center’s Education team. Not to scale.

The South Nature Center plans represent the next phase of moving current ambassadors:

North Nature Center plans, if trying to match up the two photos the two paths roughly line up. Not to scale.

This visualization represents the North Nature Center, with the red stars on the 2024 completed enclosures for Dyami (Bald Eagle), Cricket (Swainson’s Hawk), and Evie (Gyrfalcon), with huge thanks to building sponsors Zoa Realty!

If you are interest in sponsoring an enclosure for one of our ambassadors, please reach out!

New enclosures on the Nouth side will house:

  • Red-tailed Hawk (Pip)
  • Great Horned Owls (Tskili and Ruth)
  • New publicly accessible Flight Aviary to for free flying raptor ambassadors who are physically able
  • Presentation Gazebo for Oregon wildlife education and interpretation
  • Both the North and South Nature Center also include room for more ambassadors, hopefully future feathered (and perhaps furry!) friends

Each of these new buildings serves multiple goals: opening Chintimini Wildlife Center’s visitor-friendly Nature Center, and constructing species-specific, appropriate enclosures for the USDA and USFWS permit requirements of each ambassador.

Why a Reptile and Invertebrate Building?

Current home for reptile and invertebrate ambassadors, shared with the Administration Office.
Reptile and Invertebrates are a fantastic education tool when at events; we want to be able to share their stories with all visitors!

Currently, all Reptile and Invertebrate ambassadors are housed in the CWC Administrative Office. Though the Admin team loves seeing these ambassadors daily, there is not enough space, temperature control is difficult, and most importantly, these ambassadors are not accessible for onsite tours and education.

Some of these ambassadors are able to travel with CWC’s Education Team to outreach at schools and other events–and they are always an amazing educational tool. However, not all of the ambassadors are handleable (for instance, our three tarantulas) but still provide great representation of their species and education about Oregon wildlife.

This limits our team’s ability to educate about the unique ambassador stories and how they relate to conservation of native Oregon wildlife, and the different facets of CWC’s impact. They need their own home, which is shown in the Nature Center plans.

We are going to change that, continuing our long-term plan to be open to the public, and are asking for the community’s help to raise funds this #GivingTuesday to make this dream a reality.

I’m interested!
Western yellow-bellied racer that came to Chintimini’s Wildlife Hospital with injuries in the fall and was released after dedicated care from the rehabilitation team

Education about reptiles and invertebrates also ties directly to CWC’s Rehabilitation Program, as the Wildlife Hospital accepts and rehabilitates native reptiles, invertebrates, and amphibians. In 2024 alone, we have received 8 different species of reptiles and amphibians, including Pacific gopher snakes, Long-toed salamanders, and Northwestern garter snakes, to name a few.

Separation of the Wildlife Education and Wildlife Rehabilitation areas of the property for the overall health and safety of both groups of animals is an important piece of the Nature Center project. With increased concern about the transmission of zoonotic diseases, reducing the risks of disease transmission is always at the forefront of our minds as stewards of these wonderful ambassadors.

Ready to make this vision a reality?

Since Chintimini Wildlife Center opened its doors 35 years ago, being visible and responding to the community’s needs has always been at the forefront of our mission. These buildings will help progress the long-term goal of opening the Nature Center and creating a space where the community can visit and learn up close about ALL of our Wildlife Ambassadors from our trained volunteers, interns, and staff.

The public opening of the CWC Nature Center won’t happen without the support of the community. We want to see everyone out here learning about native Oregon wildlife, seeing the variety of ambassador species on site, and enjoying nature anytime.

Help support Chintimini Wildlife Center’s Nature Center and Opening Plan!

Our Reptiles and Invertebrates Thank You!