01-03-2025
Wildlife Prairie Park sees huge response from the community for meat donations
HANNA CITY, Ill. (WMBD) — Recently, the Wildlife Prairie Park made a social media post asking for meat donations, which garnered a huge response from members of the community.
Within 24 hours of the Facebook post, the organization was able to completely fill up its meat freezer. Anne Lynn, an animal curator at the park, said each day the park unthaws 40 lbs of meat. The wolves alone eat half of that.
Although the freezers are full, Wildlife Prairie Park is still accepting small amounts of meat. Right now, the park is concerned about the bird flu, so it will not be accepting any fowl meat.
There are other ways to help, too. Right now, the park is looking for donations to its Animal Care Donation Fund.
Lynn said the park wouldn't exist without community support. For example, when the park doesn't have to buy its own meat, it can focus on other major projects.
'It also goes to fixing up enclosures and stuff like that,' Lynn said. 'So when we take in meat and don't spend money on buying meat, that money actually goes to, like I said, other projects and other cool programming that we can do.'
One animal enclosure the park is trying to fix right now is the Merrill Woods area where the carnivores normally are.
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