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WildWays Consultation: Navigating Wildlife Challenges
Our WildWays Consultation services are in person with classes offering short courses (3 to 4 hours), day long classes or in-house consultation covering; Frontline Training, veterinary nurse avian triage, field-based first aid for banders and biologists, managing outbreaks of botulism in a field based mobile clinic, emergency planning for facilities, Standard Operating Protocols (SOP) development, grant applications.
Veterinary Professionals
It’s not a cat or dog or even a chicken that veterinary specialists have so much expertise in, yet they are often presented with wildlife in distress. How do you take this expertise and respond appropriately to this Cook’s petrel or armadillo youngster? These important issues include a need to understand appropriate triage and care in a setting not geared to distressed wildlife patients. WildWays will offer veterinary and science-based triage techniques to aid with stabilization and where needed, euthanasia guidelines based on species needs and reality.
Biologists
We are facing a mass extinction of species. Almost all species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other cnidarians, and plants are in decline. Field biologists are often facing injured individuals or mortalities, maybe only a single animal, but that individual now represents a greater proportion of the species as a whole. Having an understanding of what wildlife rehabilitation can realistically offer or what can be learned from a wild animal's death may be crucial locally or even at a species level. The need to have readily available resources to stabilize in the field or perform gross necropsies is now crucial.
