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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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#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...

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Amanda Margraves, In Memoriam

by Lloyd Brown On the evening of Saturday, May 13th I lost a close friend and the wildlife rehabilitation community lost one of our own Amanda Autumn Margraves was always meant to be a rehabber, she just didn’t always know what to call it. She had a passion for animals and went to the University...

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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...