Wildlife Rehabilitation
Providing professional care to sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals to return them to their natural habitat.
Laws
Regulations prohibiting possession of wildlife for over 24 hours, raising or caring for wildlife, disturbing native bird nests, or possessing parts of native birds.
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Wildlife Rehabilitation
Providing professional care to sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals to return them to their natural habitat.
Laws
Regulations prohibiting possession of wildlife for over 24 hours, raising or caring for wildlife, disturbing native bird nests, or possessing parts of native birds.
Funding
Wildlife rehabilitation relies on non-profits, volunteers, with minimal government funding, and few paid staff.
Reasons for Rehabilitation
Human interactions cause injuries to wildlife, like car accidents, litter, and habitat disturbances.
Stress Management
To keep wildlife wild, avoid contact, eye contact, and minimize handling to prevent stress-related deaths.
Imprinting on Humans
Irreversible bonding with humans, especially in birds, leading to behavioral changes and inability to integrate or be released.
Habituation
A lesser form of tameness that can be reversed with longer rehabilitation and more resources.
Risks
Wildlife face risks like malnutrition, zoonotic diseases, untreated injuries, improper release, and euthanasia for behavioral issues.
Rehabilitation Techniques
Include using foster parents, mirrors, raising with buddies, and puppets for feeding during the rehabilitation process.
Admission Process
Determining if the animal truly needs help, assessing injuries, and considering survival prognosis, species, and resources.
Treatment
Involves rehydration, medications, wound care, surgery, physical therapy, and nursing skills to prepare animals for release.
Release
Animals must be able to recognize food, mate, reproduce, avoid dangers, and be in good physical condition before release back into the wild.
Career Options
Wildlife rehabilitation offers career paths as a CVT or DVM at a center, licensed rehabilitator, or in research with various organizations.
Volunteering
Provides opportunities to gain experience in the field, with commitments ranging from weekly to internships lasting 6 months to a year.
Safe Wildlife Capture
Involves planning, safety considerations, appropriate gear, and methods for capturing and transporting injured wildlife to rehabilitators.