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Mega-Agriculture and Wildlife Health

At the 2011 IWRC Symposium the Keynote Speaker was Dr Greg Harrison.  He gave a fabulous talk about mega-agriculture and its far reaching effects, yes, even into wildlife rehabilitation. We are pleased to provide a full copy of his speech here! I highly recommend listening to the full hour below, but you can also access...

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Home by the Holidays

Update January 10 2012: The puffin has been released in the Grand Banks region near other puffins. A rehab center just outside of Montreal has been in the news recently, due to an unusual visitor, an immature Atlantic puffin a long way from home.  

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Kakapo Ambassador

Many rehabilitators deal with species that are not endangered, or at least still have a number of living members.  But regardless of whether we rehab red squirrels or hyacinth macaws, we feel the specter of population loss.  While not truly a rehab case, the below article is an interesting account of one member of one...

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Reuniting and Fostering Wildlife

By Anne Miller (reprinted from the November 2011 IWRC newsletter) A ground-breaking session on Reuniting and Fostering Wildlife was one of the highlights of the IWRC Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale this November.  A panel of seven speakers described methods of reuniting and fostering most species of native North American wildlife in a series of half-hour...

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President’s Report Fall 2011

From the President’s desk I am writing this letter from my aunt’s garden in England, for the most part hearing strange bird calls with the odd one I recognize. All punctuated with that odd sound squirrels make, yes I do recognize those, our grey squirrel, now a problem species here in the UK. I have...

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Aardvarks to Zebu: Post 1

Hello!  We have a new column here at IWRC.  Each month we will choose a challenging rehabilitation question and poll two to four experts on the topic.  In this, our first post, we chose the question “Would you release a one-eyed diurnal raptor?” and asked it of three long time raptor rehabilitators, Louise Shimmel, Randie...

Queensland Floods
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Queensland Floods

Queensland Australia has had massive flooding since late December.  According to the Queensland Governmental website three quarters of the state is now considered a disaster area.  Local wildlife rehabilitators have been hammered by the twin challenges of increased admissions and keeping their centers safe and dry.  Rehabilitators are further hampered by the lack of appropriate...

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Tortoise Shell Repair

By Lynn Miller, PhD I had the very great pleasure of visiting the SPCA Wildlife Care Center in Ft Lauderdale, FL recently. I was able to spend time in the clinic of this very busy facility, observing and aiding with cases covering a wide range of species and injuries. It was fascinating to say the...

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Day 8 – Leaving for Now

Day eight. Leaving was actually very hard to do. On the way out of the marina, I spotted tri-colored herons feeding along the side of the road, the alligators suspended in water, cypress trees and extraordinary vegetation, partially submerged cars and trucks from Katrina. Then the very warm thanks from everyone I met. Thank you...