Rehabilitators often act as human/wildlife conflict mitigation specialists. We all (rehabbers) have the same problems and deal with the same issues, we are just in different parts of the world! Conflict mitigation cannot be ignored, especially during a time of crisis. Speaking with the Public Set aside time for the calls so that you are mentally/emotionally...
Category: Wildlife Rehabilitation Around the World
Post
Wildlife Rehabilitators Operational Guidance for COVID-19
UPDATE 6/8/2020 Joint Statement on Wildlife Rehabiliation during COVID-19 from NWRA and IWRC The IWRC and our partners have gathered some advice for wildlife rehabilitation operations in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is fluid, and our responses must be agile to align. We will work to update this post as additional guidance...
Post
Australia
There are no words in any human vocabulary to describe the unimaginable horror as Australia burns. There are emotions, deep-stabbing pains of grief, voids and the vacancy of loss, infinite vacuum of pain, but no words. Not one living thing consumed by this hell brought on by human greed and antipathy deserves this fate. I...
Post
Wildlife Disease Association 68th Annual International Conference (Part 3)
The following is the third in a short series of posts from IWRC staff and board members who attended the WDA Conference at Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City, California USA in August 2019 Multiple-drug resistance in wildlife From the 2019 Wildlife Disease Association Conference, several presentations gave great cause for worry. The number of...
Post
Wildlife Disease Association 68th Annual International Conference (Part 2)
The following is the second in a short series of posts from IWRC staff and board members who attended the WDA Conference at Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City, California USA in August 2019 Q&A with Julissa Angius What were your favorite talks/papers? (in no particular order) “They’re always there”: Characterizing rat exposure and...
Post
Wildlife Disease Association 68th Annual International Conference
The following is the first in a short series of posts from IWRC staff and board members who attended the WDA Conference at Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City, California USA in August 2019 I’ve recently returned home from the 2019 Wildlife Disease Association Conference, my first one. I highly recommend this meeting to any academic...
Post
Feathers, Native Culture, and Rehabilitation
By Katie McInnis DVM As wildlife rehabilitators we all know the value of feathers to birds. Thermoregulation, communication, and mobility are just a few ways birds utilize their feathers. But what about when a bird no longer needs those feathers? What purpose can they serve? For some, imping is an excellent use of feathers,...
Post
#HarveyWildlife Rehabilitation Effort Fundraiser
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4th, 2017 Wildlife Rehabilitation Community Aids Its Own [HOUSTON, TX] — Disasters bring communities together and bring out the best in people. Organizations helping people and organizations helping companion animals (dogs, cats, horses, etc.) impacted by natural and human-made disasters have become part of the emergency landscape. They quickly and...
Post
Wildlife Rehabilitation: The Career
Reprinted with permission from Becoming a Wildlife Professional, Scott E Henke and Paul R Krausman, editors (pp 140-142) Wildlife rehabilitation centers are nonprofit or governmental agencies that provide care to injured, ill, and orphaned wild animals and assist area residents with human/wildlife conflicts. Organizational goals and missions focus on the conservation of species, conflict resolution,...
Post
Raging Wildfires in Chile Affect Wildlife
Since early January Chile has been facing the worst forest fires it has ever seen in modern history, with ~2300 sq miles of land destroyed, thousands of people evacuated and 11 human deaths. The Chilean government has declared state of emergency in several areas, which have been receiving support from official emergency agencies, international help, and volunteers....