Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I remember we used to find hedgehogs in the garden at our south London home, as well as one particular experience of finding a baby bird on the pavement when coming home from school. I must have been about 7 years...
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Tidbits from board member Ashraf NVK
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. Like all children, I was naturally attracted to animals, but more than others. I lived in a semi-urban environment and we had free-ranging backyard poultry. I would stand at the entrance when the door is opened to get my favourite hen...
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Tidbits from New Staff Member Katie McInnis
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship with wildlife. As a child I always loved animals. I distinctly remember finding a squirrel that had been hit by a car and wanting to help him. My mother helped me get the squirrel into a box and we took it to the...
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Board member Francisca Astorga shares tidbits
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I have many cousins, and some of them live up in a reserve, about 40 kms from Santiago. At some point when I was a child, I don’t know why, they received an injured juvenile condor. The Andean condor is present...
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Board Treasurer Dani Nicholson shares tidbits of her journey in wildlife rehab
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. My father and mother were active and adventurous, respected all animals and nature in general. We loved to be outdoors. I remember stopping the car to watch snakes and tarantulas cross the road. The brown bears were understood to be beautiful...
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Board President Sue Wylie shares tidbits about her life with wildlife
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I have always preferred being outdoors and loved nature. My parents brought me camping every weekend May to October starting at the age of two weeks until I was a teen. My most memorable moment was when I was 8 years...
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Board member Kim Poisson shares some tidbits with us
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. My father found an injured crow when I was a child. We helped him recover from his injuries and when he was released he lived near our house for years, bringing me trinkets and creating a desire in me to help...
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Board Member Christopher Boykin Shares Some Tidbits with Us
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I grew up on an old one classroom school yard property in central Mississippi that abutted a 500-acre peach farm. I remember the first time i happened upon a three-toed box turtle and wondered with delight at all of her colors...