Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute

We need your help to fill CIMWI's freezer with fish!

Fish costs have doubled since last year!
 
We currently have 22 patients - - 6 Northern elephant seal pups, 15 California sea lion pups and 1 adult California sea lion. This is just the beginning of CIMWI’s “busy season!” Currently, we are feeding 60 pounds of fish a day and this will increase with each animal we rescue. As patients become healthier they eat an average of 10% of their body weight each day while in rehabilitation with CIMWI. A healthier pup will eat 5 pounds of fish and an adult will eat 15-20 pounds a day. The average cost to feed a patient in rehabilitation is $500. That’s a lot fish!
 
We need your help to cover the costs to fill our 40’ freezer container with fish this year. Our goal is to raise $45,000. We are extremely fortunate to have two corporate supporters jump start our GoFundMe Campaign! A huge shout out of gratitude to Nécessaire and The Trade Desk, Inc. who each donated $15,000. We are at 67% of our goal and need to raise the remaining $15,000! If you would like to help fill CIMWI’s freezer with fish, you can make a donation through this GoFundMe Campaign or mail a check to CIMWI (PO Box 4250, Santa Barbara, CA 93140).

We appreciate our CIMWI fans and are committed to doing all we can to give these marine mammals a second chance at life back in the wild!

WE DID IT!... Thanks to your financial support!
CIMWI reached 100% of its GoFundMe project goal!
THANK YOU for making CIMWI's Extreme Makeover a reality!

Stay tuned on social media for photos of the projects - - www.facebook.com/cimwi/ and www.instagram.com/cimwi/ 


ABOUT OUR PROJECT:
There are two components to the project:
1) Resurfacing our outdoor and hospital rehabilitation pens and treatment areas to ensure hygienic standards and add efficiency of cleaning for our volunteers.
2) Upgrading our shade covering over the outdoor pens to better meet our needs to protect the health of our patients and volunteers.

Thank you for your continued support with CIMWI. We appreciate your investment in our nonprofit and the good work our volunteers do to positively impact conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, research and education to promote ocean and human health.

For more information about Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute, please visit our website http://cimwi.org/

We need your help...
During the month of May 2019, Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI), our all-volunteer nonprofit organization rescued 62 starving California sea lion pups and we are in a crisis situation providing medical and rehabilitation care for these animals. We continue to rescue more starving pups each day. We urgently need fish to fill our freezer so we can nurse these animals back to health and return them to the wild. Fish costs $1 a pound. Our goal is to raise $22,000.

CIMWI a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to positively impacting conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, research and education to promote ocean and human health. CIMWI serves Santa Barbara & Ventura counties in Southern California.