{"id":260967,"date":"2026-05-06T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:52:19","slug":"south-florida-wildlife-center-struggles-with-aging-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260967\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida Wildlife Center struggles with \u2018aging facility\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM<\/p>\n<p>Ceiling partially collapses at center\u2019s cliniclead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2XYYLC2N4FFJ7OEAHGTWC5LEGQ.jpeg\"  width=\"1320\" height=\"742\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southfloridawildlifecenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.southfloridawildlifecenter.org\/\">The South Florida Wildlife Center<\/a> has been rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing wild animals back into their natural habitat since 1969. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stacey Price, the nonprofit\u2019s executive director, reported that a portion of the clinic\u2019s ceiling collapsed on Saturday afternoon due to termite damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis moment highlights the realities of an aging facility and the importance of investing in modern, resilient infrastructure to support the lifesaving work that happens here every day,\u201d Price wrote in a statement. \u201cPlans for relocation for a new facility are in place, though still a few years from becoming a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The center, which holds more than 500 animals, closed portions of the clinic for assessment and repairs. For more information about how to help, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southfloridawildlifecenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.southfloridawildlifecenter.org\/\">visit this page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Here is a list of other places to take injured animals:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related link: <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/conservation\/you-conserve\/wildlife\/injured-orphaned\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/conservation\/you-conserve\/wildlife\/injured-orphaned\/\">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on injured and orphaned wildlife<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Reporter Christina Vazquez contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM Ceiling partially collapses at center\u2019s cliniclead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-260967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}