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Animal rescuers take the animals and care for the animals in need. An animal rescue group or animal rescue organization is a group dedicated to pet adoption.These groups take abandoned, abused, or stray pets and attempt to find suitable homes for them.
Volunteers started to do trap–neuter–return of feral cats, including fostering and taming feral kittens, and fostering tame cats for adoption. [5] There were soon 43 feeding stations for feral cats tended each day in Richmond and south Vancouver. [5] In 1999, space was donated for a shelter, [5] which became the location of a cat sanctuary. [6]
In 2000, Karen Duncan and Maria Soroski founded the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA) in Vancouver, British Columbia. [3] They first planned to care for very young, mainly bottle-feeding kittens, who rarely survived if found without a mother cat. [4]
The Wildlife Rescue Association of BC is dedicated to wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release. Every year, the organization aids in mitigating and responding to wildlife emergencies including annual Canada Goose rooftop rescues, [10] [11] [12] and extreme weather events such as heatwaves, flooding, [3] wildfires, and cold snaps.
The Victoria Search and Rescue Region (SRR) comprises the land masses of British Columbia and Yukon, as well as a portion of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean. It is approximately 490,000 square miles (1,300,000 km 2 ) of mainly mountainous terrain, with another 275,000 square miles (710,000 km 2 ) of ocean and 20,000 miles (32,000 km) of coastline.
RE/MAX was founded in January 1973 by Dave Liniger and Gail Main (who later married Liniger and became Gail Liniger) in Denver, Colorado. [5] [6] [7]The company was established with a maximum commission concept, meaning that agents would keep nearly all of their commissions and pay their broker a share of the office expenses, rather than paying their broker a share of the commission of each ...
The Search and Rescue Squad provide assistance in land, snow and vertical cliff search and rescue. The Rescue Coordination Centre provides the squad with information on the location and assistance required. It is the squad's responsibility to provide the necessary equipment depending on whether it is a land, water, snow or vertical cliff rescue ...
Ambulance Victoria (AV), a Victorian agency of the Department of Health, is the statutory provider of pre-hospital emergency care and ambulance services in Victoria. Ambulance Victoria was formed on 1 July 2008 with the merger of the Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS), Rural Ambulance Victoria (RAV), and the Alexandra District Ambulance Service (ADAS). [4]