Santa Barbara pelicans would say:

Please
share time,
share fish money

BE A VOLUNTEER

at your own local wildlife rescue center!

Santa Barbara pelicans need help — that means they need money for care, for support, for money to pay for their fish.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is a 501(c)(3) organization; all donations are tax deductible.

Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network
P.O. Box 6594
Santa Barbara, CA 93160
805-966-6091

http://www.sbwcn.org

Please note that you are giving to help with the care of the California Brown Pelicans, including unreleasables, or, perhaps, all the seabirds the SBWCN rescues.

Thank you for your help and caring!

Helping others helps yourself! Read this interesting new study from the University of Oregon, reprinted in Science Daily "...Researchers found that two evolutionarily ancient regions deep in the brain -- the caudate nucleus and the nucleus accumbens -- fired when subjects saw the charity get the money. The activation was even larger when people gave the money voluntarily, instead of just paying it as taxes. These brain regions are the same ones that fire when basic needs such as food and pleasures (sweets or social contact) are satisfied...."

For instructions on how to rescue a pelican or other seabird, click.

For an Adobe Acrobat .pdf list of California rehabilitators, click.

Other things you can do to help:

* Encourage the use of barbless hooks: they're just as good for fishing and do less damage to the unfortunate hooked birds.
* Do not feed wild pelicans, especially in areas where there is fishing. What seems to many people an irresistable kindness, in fact encourages the birds to hang around where, near inevitably, they'll get hooked. In addition, seeing a free lunch, they'll compete with and annoy fishermen some of whom may retaliate with extreme cruelty.
* Actively participate in local wildlife conservation and environmental organizations. Most all of them need and welcome volunteers. Visit Resources for a list of Santa Barbara area organizations. In Santa Barbara, to volunteer, call (805)-966-9005.
* Write letters to the local media and public officials about the need for clean ocean waters and the importance of protecting all marine life.
* Write to info@pelicanlife.org, saying what you think of this website and how it could be improved!

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