GROW Wildlife, Inc. (formerly The Georgia Rehabilitation of Wildlife Center) announced the launch of a new website and a new corporate name which will allow national expansion of the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization’s mission and objectives to encourage wildlife conservation by promoting and providing professional veterinary care, education, and humane treatment of wildlife injured or disadvantaged by human activity through wildlife veterinary hospitals.

It was no small-time event. The Jack Hanna Benefit fundraiser at the Georgia Aquarium Jan. 18 for Georgia’s only wildlife veterinary hospital and research center to be located in Chattahoochee Hill Country featured many of Hanna’s animals and emerging country music star Jason Coley.

America’s most famous animal man will be in Atlanta on Friday to raise money for a hospital created just for wild animals.

Wildlife animals in the state, especially the metro area, will soon have a place to get medical care. According to a news release, there is no wildlife hospital in Georgia staffed with specialist veterinarians.