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Category: Community Notices
2021 Van Doninck Scholarship Open for Applications
June 15, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Eugene, Oregon] — Dr. Helene Marie Van Doninck, is remembered by friends and colleagues as a dedicated, passionate and determined veterinarian, and also as a positive and effective force on behalf of wildlife. She co-founded the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (CWRC) outside Truro Nova Scotia in 2001. She worked tirelessly...
Van Doninck Scholarship Open for Applications
June 15, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Eugene, Oregon] — Dr. Helene Marie Van Doninck, is remembered by friends and colleagues as a dedicated, passionate and determined veterinarian, and also as a positive and effective force on behalf of wildlife. She co-founded the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (CWRC) outside Truro Nova Scotia in 2001. She worked tirelessly...
Happy Volunteer Appreciation Week!
We have them, we know them, we love them, and most of us even are them… Volunteers make up the lifeblood of our wildlife rehab operations. Without them? Well… we don’t even want to go there. They help us with anything and everything from cleaning to caring for our patients to medical procedures. They even help with...
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...
Spotlight on Aya Cockram
Aya joined the IWRC staff on December 2nd, 2019. You can find short bio’s on each of our staff members here! Q&A with Aya: Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. When I was twelve years old my neighbor rescued a baby squirrel from the jaws of her...
In memory of Gary Bogue, an IWRC founding board member & JWR editor
IWRC founding board member and former Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation editor Gary Bogue died at his Bay area home this September at age 81. In December of 1974, Gary, curator at the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum, was one of eight individuals to sign the articles of incorporation for IWRC, at the time called Wildlife Rehabilitation...
#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...