Wild Wishes® teen Amos goes flyfishing for the first time in the Nueces River during a Higher Calling Wildlife stream fisheries trip focused on Texas native Guadalupe bass.
Youth Conservation Outreach
Our award-winning Wild Wishes® program grants wildlife encounters to children with a critical illness or loss of a parent or sibling. Teens from the program have an opportunity to be part of our special conservation mentoring through Higher Calling Wildlife® and learn about the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.
Teens are taken on special expeditions and taught to use photography, video, podcasting and the written word to communicate conservation awareness through social and traditional media.
Our expeditions have been funded in part by generous donations from the Houston Safari Club Foundation.
We believe no one can understand wildlife in peril more than young people dealing with great struggles. This program empowers them and gives hope. And it helps create a NOW generation of purposed-filled, passionate conservationists understanding the North American Model of Conservation.
This is one way we show the love of Christ to hurting children through wildlife encounters.
Higher Calling Wildlife® founder Chester Moore with 17-year-old Olivia participating in the first-ever Higher Calling Gulf Coast expedition. She got to snorkel in the shark cage at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi and learn about sharks and other Gulf marine life on the trip.
Reannah takes part in the first ever Higher Calling Wildlife expedition in Dec. 2019 during a bighorn capture at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area near Alpine, TX.
Dustin and Emily release eastern turkeys in Titus County, TX courtesy of our partners with the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.
