Category: Board News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!)....