This project will build additional rehabilitation centre's for discarded, injured and disabled bunnies. We aim to accommodate more rescues all over South Africa. It will become free educational centre's to teach children and curious adults how to care and treat bunnies, to train volunteers and in long term to facilitate potential research on rehabilitation of Lagomorphs. Free training video's will be produced within the new building/facility to spread knowledge and awareness internationally.
There are currently no more space in animal rescue centre's in South Africa, especially for bunnies. If the public report, bring injured, discarded or disabled bunny the rescue centre's can't take them in. Even the local SPCA in end have to euthanize animals due to space and health concerns. There are lack of education on how to care for exotic animals, like bunnies, because of this people become overwhelmed with their pets/bunnies. People end up dumping them leading to bunnies getting injured.
The building expansion project will create additional space to take in more disables and discarded bunnies. Each building will be able to house 20 enclosures and estimate 30 to 40 discarded or injured bunnies. Each enclosure will provide needed food and water. Each building will have a medical treatment section to treat wounds and feed bunnies that can't eat. At least 5 people can be trained per day and weekly videos will create educational material to spread knowledge.
This project will provide safety and health facility for 40 to 160 sick, discarded or disabled bunnies. It will help control population of bunnies, because each bunny will be sterilized, which means potentially avoid breeding of thousands additional bunnies. Treatment of disease will also prevent spread of disease like EC to other animals. The education and training will reach potential of 260 people per year and from online training perspective thousands more.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
