Course Title: Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation

Pre-requisite: None

Fee: Member-$125, Nonmember-$159

Delivery Method: Classroom

CE Hours: 13

Pre-requisite: None (Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation recommended)

Fee: Varies

Delivery Method: Online, On Demand and Classroom Style (if locations listed below)

CE Hours: 5

Course Description:

All animals have parasites. Understanding them leads to better care of wildlife in rehabilitation and can reduce the spread of disease. Parasitology is a comprehensive course covering individual parasites, their life cycles, and their transmission to new hosts. In this course you begin to learn how to identify the diagnostic forms, the treatments to use and also the zoonotic potential for many varieties of parasites.

*NEW* Live course will include a parasitology lab!

Join us at the Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton, Wisconsin where wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, conservationists, and other professionals from around the world will discuss the latest in wildlife rehabilitation.  For more information visit our Symposium pages.

Make sure to also sign up for the banquet if you are interested.

Field trip and pre-conference workshops coming later.

The banquet and silent auction will be held the evening of Friday, November 16th.  Exciting auction items are already coming in!

Wisconsin is home to over 60 licensed rehabilitators ranging from small homecare providers to larger centers treating over 4,000 patients annually.  Enjoy the day touring two of our largest northern facilities Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary and the Raptor Education Group Incorporated (REGI).  This field trip is a great way to spend some pre-symposium time networking with rehab colleagues from around the world and gathering ideas to carry home.

7:15am to 4pm

Lunch Details: Bay Beach Wildlife will be providing a lunch table so that attendees can pack their own bag lunch to eat on the bus ride up to REGI.

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary is a beautiful 700 acre urban wildlife refuge featuring live animal exhibits, educational displays, miles of hiking/skiing trails and various wildlife viewing opportunities. It is the largest park in the Green Bay Park system and home to the second largest wildlife rehabilitation program in Wisconsin, R-PAWS (rehabilitation program at the Wildlife Sanctuary) caring for more than 5,000 orphaned and injured animals annually.

REGI is a wildlife rehabilitation and education center located in the heart of northern Wisconsin.  It is home to a world class flight training facility treating over 50 eagles annually. REGI’s executive director Marge Gibson is well known for her contributions to raptor research and piloting an educational campaign with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to “Get the Lead Out.”

Wisconsin has long been an important contributor to wildlife and habitat conservation internationally.  Tour the International Crane Foundation home of Operation Migration the endangered Whooping Crane recovery project for the rarest of the 15 crane species found worldwide.  The ICF program stresses the interdependence between wildlife and their habitats and the relationships that exist between wildlife, habitat and people.

Next stop the Aldo Leopold Foundation. The original Aldo Leopold Shack and 300 surrounding acres is where, in 1935, Aldo Leopold and his family undertook a revolutionary experiment in returning health to a worn out farm. Celebrated in Leopold’s classic A Sand County Almanac, the transformed land now supports vibrant forests, wetlands, and prairie and draws visitors from around the world.  The foundation’s headquarters are located in the Leopold Center, located less than a mile from the Leopold Shack and Farm. Opened in 2007, the Leopold Center was built using pines the Leopold family planted in the 1930s and ‘40s and implements a wide spectrum of green building techniques and technologies. The Leopold Center begins to demonstrate the many ecological, economic, and cultural harvests we may begin to reap when we commit to caring for land.

7:15am to 4pm