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In the broadest sense, the mission of Coryi Foundation, Inc. is to engage in scientific research, conservation, and education activities involving wildlife species at all levels of biological organization - from the molecular level up to the biosphere level. The scope of research ranges from fundamental to problem solving. Coryi Foundation, Inc. research serves to increase an understanding of biological and ecological mechanisms that enable conservationists with information essential to successful natural resource conservation in a dynamic and unstable world. The mission of the Foundation’s conservation biology agenda is to encourage and develop strategies that employ the results of research that solve the ecological problems of our time. The Foundation also serves to educate the public at large with regards to the needs of wildlife species and natural resources. The primary goal of the education venue is to promote the idea that the natural world and all its living organisms possess intrinsic worth. Inherent to this idea is the understanding that humans are not disjunctive from the natural world, but are integral members that possess the responsibility of ethically sound stewardship.
Research, Conversation, and Education go hand in hand in today's complex world. One cannot exist without the other because the natural world envelops human affairs and modern civilization and vice versa. Photo: Mallory Swamp Restoration Project bobcat research and education activities: Upper right - Tim Mallow teaching high school students on radio-telemetry and ecological techniques of study in the field; Lower left - Bobcat F14 (small young female) being released after collaring. Photos and montage by Christine Small, MSRP Project Manager, 1995-1999
The name "Coryi" serves as an icon of the Foundation's projects. Coryi is the sub-species name for the endangered Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi). The plight of the Florida panther epitomizes the calling of Coryi Foundation in the modern world. The panther is endangered because of habitat loss and persecution as a top predator. This theme runs rampant around the world. Coryi Foundation focuses its efforts on issues such as habitat loss and fragmentation, decrease in genetic diversity, the decline of species numbers, erosion of animal community stability, and extinctions. Ever aware of the human needs in the modern world, we strive to find feasible solutions to the human - wildlife conflict.
Coryi Foundation, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit wildlife research, conservation, and education organization staffed by degreed and ethically bound biologists. We engage in fully sanctioned collegiate, accredited, non-lethal, and authorized research and the implementation of commensurate conservation programs. We additionally act in service of undivided loyalty to the natural world as true defenders of wildlife and do not compromise the safety or well-being of any animal whatsoever. We do not ally with hunters or any program of resource exploitation or population control that involves the lethal take of species. We do not engage in vivisection, physiologically insulting research or any program that manipulates any species, population, or individual for the use for, of, or by mankind. Nor do we subject animals to inhumane procedures, studies, or methods. We foremost answer to God and are accountable to Him for our actions and our duty, and abide by state and federal laws under His authority. We passionately defend these principles and will never concede to their compromise in any fashion. We live by the theological understanding that animals possess an intrinsic and supreme worth in the eyes of God and were not placed on earth for man's exploitation. - Updated 19 DEC 2003
We encourage you to peruse through our domain. You will find interesting projects in which we are currently engaged, as well as useful educational material.