The primary focus of the centre is to provide professional care and rehabilitation facilities for injured, orphaned and misplaced wildlife in order to facilitate their release back into the wild. This is enhanced by an awareness and education component which includes housing non-releasable animals in facilities of an internationally high standard in a holistic environment that operates in line with sustainable-use principles and technologies.

The centre comprises a clinic and hospital room for the treatment of injured wildlife, a kitchen, a store and an education resources display room, as well as aviaries that are laid out over ten hectares of thornveld savannah

NARREC is a non-profit organization, run by Liz Komen, and was initially sponsored by the Rössing Foundation, Consolidated Diamond Mines (now Namdeb) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), who made it possible to erect the first aviaries.

NARREC operates as a special support service to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, collaborates with the City of Windhoek, the SPCA and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry on issues relating to human and animal interactions. However, without the financial and logistical assistance of numerous concerned members of the Namibian general public and organizations over the past almost two decades and the current assistance from Taueber and Corssen (Pty) Ltd, as well as the Meatco Okapuka feedlot, NARREC’s mission to provide wildlife assistance and unique environmental education facilities would not be possible.