With just a month or so to go before another year closes out, the team at the IWRC have been reflecting on our past couple of years’ accomplishments which are accelerating year on year. Front of mind is that none of our work is possible without the generosity of our supporters around the globe, and...
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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...
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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...
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Spotlight on new board member Deborah Galle!
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship with wildlife. As a child, I LOVED wildlife. I would find toads, salamanders, snakes, bumble bees and hold them all! I was fascinated by their behaviors and could watch them for hours. When I was about 7 years old, I would visit two...
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2019 Board Updates
IWRC’s annual board and officer elections are complete. Breakdown of the results: Member Election Results Jayanthi Kallam *new board member Pat Latas *new board member Dani Nicholson (reelected) Board Appointed Individuals Deborah Galle *new board member Kristen Heitman (reelected) Mandy Kamps (reelected) Ashraf NVK (reelected) Officer Positions Adam Grogan has moved from his previous post...
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Words from Pat Latas DVM – IWRC’s newest board member!
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship with wildlife. I’m not sure that there was one experience, I was involved with the natural world from my first memories and before–there is a family photo of me in diapers bent over watching some ants…I suppose the moment I was old...
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Tidbits from board member – Brooke Durham
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. When I was about 10 years old my grandfather found a pair of (almost) fledgling Eastern Screech Owl chicks at the family lake house in the spring, when he arrived to get things in...
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Tidbits from board member – Suzanne Pugh
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. As a child there were so many stories and story books my mom shared with me, Tarka the Otter, Watership Down, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, not to mention the bedtime stories my mother made up! However, there was a brilliant...
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2018 Board Changes
IWRC’s annual board and officer elections are complete. Breakdown of the results: Member Election Results Lloyd Brown (reelected) Brooke Durham *new board member Laurin Huse (reelected) Board Appointed Individuals Shathi Govender *new board member Adam Grogan (reelected) Suzanne Pugh *new board member Officer Positions Mandy Kamps is our newly elected vice-president. Adam Grogan has moved from his previous...
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Tidbits from board member Brenda Harms
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. My mother always tried to save the birds our cat caught (this was back in the stone age). She’d feed them white bread soaked in milk and keep them in a shoebox (well, at least she got the shoebox right!)....