Transport and Rescue Volunteer Application

Volunteer transporters provide a vital service to both the Wildlife Center of Virginia and the community by facilitating the rescue of wild animals. We appreciate that our volunteer transporters share the use of their vehicles, the cost of gasoline, and valuable time to assist wildlife. Volunteer transporters provide a life-saving service.

If you’d like to join this pool of volunteers, please fill out this form. After we receive your application, we will send you an email with additional information. Unless you otherwise specify, we will add you to our active referral list immediately and you may start receiving calls from the public for transport help right away, or you may not get any calls for six months or more.

Please review and abide by our transporter guidelines before completing your application.

Contact Information
Available to the rescuer
Transportation
Which is your preferred method of communication with the public?
For example: 30–45 miles from your location, to a specific location, etc
When are you able to transport animals?
Are you comfortable rescuing animals that have not been contained?
This refers to capturing an animal that WCV staff have identified as needing care, but which the finder cannot or is not comfortable capturing. 
If you answered yes to the previous question, please select which animals you would be comfortable rescuing. Select all that apply.
Have you had the pre-exposure rabies vaccination?
This is a series of three vaccinations given over the course of a month and is not a routine vaccination. It is not needed to be a transporter, but if you have had them it is helpful for us to know.

Phone: 540.942.9453      Fax: 540.943.9453      Email: wildlife@wildlifecenter.org