Do you want to help victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill? Here are a few ideas from the article, ”Heroes needed: How to help the victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill“, in USA Today: The National Audubon Society is recruiting volunteers to be trained to respond to the oil spill. Save Our Seabirds is [...]
We care about bears and feature them in our children’s books One Child, One Planet, A Pirate’s Quest, and in our wildlife gallery. I want to to let you know about a group I recently discovered that is helping bears. The World Society for the Protection of Animals is helping bears and other wildlife in the [...]
A baby porcupine, called a porcupet, is being bottle fed in this video. This little guy’s mother was killed when she was hit by a car and he was cared for by licensed wildlife rehabilitater Gail Buhl. He was orphaned and imprinted on humans and is now living at a nature center in northern Minnesota.
Here is another video on the Noah’s Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center about a lion, bear and tiger living in harmony. I first saw this video on the Today show.
A lion, tiger and bear recovered in a drug bust in 2001 have been living together ever since at the animal rescue center Noah’s Ark near Atlanta, Georgia. Leo, Shere Khan and Baloo are like brothers; caretakers say separating them would bring depression.
Meet Solei’, a fawn that came in to PAWS, Inc. unable to stand. Watch how she has to be propped up to be fed and see how she is working to improve the strength in her legs.
According to the article, “In Vermont, Making a Stand for Pete the Moose”, in The New York Times, Pete likes jelly doughnuts, people, bananas and, most of all, David Lawrence, a former farmer who speaks to him each day and considers him “my son.” In June, a couple brought Pete, a 500-pound moose, to an elk farm [...]
This injured black bear cub was tagged and released from the Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Pennsylvania. He’s feisty! It’s nice to see him placed back into the wild.
I read “An Eagle Story” and want to share it with you. It’s a moving story about an eagle named Freedom and a man named Jeff. Jeff writes: “Freedom and I have been together 10 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings…She’s my baby. When Freedom came in [...]
This is a nice story from the The News-Gazette.com. A sludge-covered female eagle got herself out from the bank of a retention pond in Illinois, but was not able to fly away. Fortunately Naturalist Gary Wilford got the call about the injured eagle on the Danville Sanitary District grounds. “It was pretty exciting,” said Wilford, who [...]
