After some emergency surgery, the mesh was removed and the squirrel recovered, though the fur grew in differently, helping Travis’s team to track the creature after it was released back into the wild.“I’ve tracked squirrels that we’ve released for many years, so they do survive. They need your support more than ever.Here are a few of our memorable wildlife patients from 2018.Please read our End-Of-Year Newsletter:2017-In-A-Nutshell by clicking on this image:Recently, we were asked to rescue some unusual-to-us animals – as in, Not Wildlife.We are posting updates and photos of our Spring babies on our facebook page:Here at Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue, we are thankful.We are thankful for the emergency response volunteers who disrupt there lives on a regular basis to help wildlife in need.We are thankful for the caring, loving souls who are our foster-care volunteers who nurture orphaned wildlife babies and then let them go to be wild when the time is right. Anyone able?© 2019 Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue Center (YUWR) on UPCOMING VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION – 3/23/16 6:30pm – 8:30pm I wanted to d...Every one of us has had to manage what to do when uninvited guests take up residence in our attics, walls, or basements.
3 were found drowning in the gutter during a heavy rainstorm in Oakland, CA on March 5th 2016. “I know that she has really poured her heart and soul into it, and it shows.”LOVE this article!! Today this amazing mama possum came in. At the time we didn’t know she was a mama but once I examined her it’s a no brainer. “Everything else in my life was secondary. That was on February 27th 2016This eyes-closed baby opossum is one of 7 who were saved after their mother was killed by a backyard dog.Squirrel Bar - The Nutty Bar - X Carve CNC project, Thinking outside the nut! Or, if you find a dead possum on the street, you should check its pouch, because, as California’s only marsupial, possums will carry their babies in a pouch and these babies may still be alive.Jean, who bottle-feeds abandoned kittens as well (Yggdrasil doesn’t officially take kittens, but if any are found, they’re sent to Jean), comes back year after year to volunteer. Once their umbilical cords fall off, feedings decrease in frequency. “And I thought this was crazy.”As Travis sits inside one of the pre-release enclosures, she suddenly lets out a little cry. Here are a few of this week’s patients!RESOLVED!
We are thankful for the emergency response volunteers who disrupt there lives on a regular basis to help wildlife in need.
Lila Travis’s voicemail message is 56 seconds long. Sadly, we're too quick to consider them "pests" and take lethal measures to getJust a quick word to let you all know Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue is an Essential Service. MISSION STATEMENT To rehabilitate injured and/or orphaned urban wildlife (endangered and otherwise) with the goal of releasing the animal back into the wild, giving it a second chance at life, and reducing … We were designated as an essential service, because wild animals are essential. Taylor is a co-founder of the California Center for Natural History, who is also trying to re-vitalize the Rotary Nature Center as a wildlife education center, She herself has been a squirrel fosterer with Yggdrasil.“It was a sole focus,” said Taylor, who cared for squirrels at an age when they needed to be fed every four hours. Here are a few of this week’s patients!RESOLVED! (Food for Thought podcast can be found wherever you listen to podcasts, but here is an easy way to listen...on Soundcloud. Lila is amazing and I have learned so much from her.
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There, you will learn about our organization and how you can get involved.With the recent storms, we have had several wildlife orphans brought to us for care. 4:00. We are dedicated to the rehabilitation of orphaned and injured wildlife living in urban city centers and education of the public about how to live harmoniously with our cities’ wildlife.We are a 501c3 grassroots nonprofit organization and are 100% volunteer-run and donation-funded!To heal the sick and injured/orphaned animals brought to us and ready them for release back into our Urban Wilds.To educate people of all ages in the wonder and enjoyment of wildlife and nature and why it is so vital we protect it.To teach patience and compassion so that urban wildlife is viewed in a more positive light by everyone- not as pests, but as important co-habitators of our environment.Yggdrasil is the name in mythology for the “World Tree”.The legend is that the World Tree’s branches reach across the Universe.
We thank him for devoting his life to making the world a better, safer, more cooperative place for all creatures, humans included.© 2019 Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue Center (YUWR)