Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship

Through this program, the intern will:
• Gain intensive, hands-on training and experience in the field of wildlife rehabilitation focusing on animal nutrition, husbandry, feeding techniques, capture and restraint methods, release criteria, captive animal behaviors, and natural history.
• Learn medical skills from staff veterinarians, such as bandaging, medical math, fluid therapy, zoonotic diseases, and other subjects pertinent to wildlife rehabilitation.
• Develop leadership and mentorship qualities by training and supervising new rehabilitation externs, animal care volunteers, and community service volunteers.
• Receive public relations training in wildlife hotline management.
• Develop public speaking skills through delivering didactic lectures and teaching developed courses to externship students, veterinary students, volunteers, and wildlife rehabilitators.
• Have the opportunity to teach a course at the Wildlife Center’s annual Call of the Wild conference.
• Provide support during WCV’s annual Gala and Benefit Auction.
• Sit for the IWRC’s Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR) certification exam.
Through this program, the intern will:
• Gain intensive, hands-on training and experience in the field of wildlife rehabilitation focusing on animal nutrition, husbandry, feeding techniques, capture and restraint methods, release criteria, captive animal behaviors, and natural history.
• Learn medical skills from staff veterinarians, such as bandaging, medical math, fluid therapy, zoonotic diseases, and other subjects pertinent to wildlife rehabilitation.
• Develop leadership and mentorship qualities by training and supervising new rehabilitation externs, animal care volunteers, and community service volunteers.
• Receive public relations training in wildlife hotline management.
• Develop public speaking skills through delivering didactic lectures and teaching developed courses to externship students, veterinary students, volunteers, and wildlife rehabilitators.
• Have the opportunity to teach a course at the Wildlife Center’s annual Call of the Wild conference.
• Provide support during WCV’s annual Gala and Benefit Auction.
• Sit for the IWRC’s Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR) certification exam.
https://wildlifecenter.org/about/employment