Send Sharon to Wildlife Rehabilitator's Symposiums to Learn Vet & Science Techniques!

Sharon Wilder Start Date: Jan 14, 2015 - End Date: May 13, 2015
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Volunteer Trip
  • International, National and Florida Wildlife Rehabilitator's Symposiums.
  • Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, in Maitland and Avian Reconditioning Center in Apopka

My Travel Story

by: Sharon Wilder Start Date: Jan 14, 2015 - End Date: May 13, 2015
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Volunteer Trip
I have come to "Fund My Travel" in efforts to secure funds to attend the Florida, the National and the International Wildlife Rehabilitators Symposium as well as my Saturday, February 21st Raptor Medical Care and Rehabilitation Workshop in the Orlando area. Any additional funds I may receive will go to, first, veterinarian fees and medicine for injured animals I take in, secondly for food and caging, thirdly for any other supplies I may need such as heat lamps or pads, bedding, etc.

I am a Florida State Permitted Wildlife Rehabber and receive no funding except for donations and my monthly SSD, as grants are hard to come by. At these symposiums I have a chance to work, hands on, with veterinarians and scientists from all over the country to learn various veterinary techniques, nutritional requirements and conservtion strategies to keep animals alive. You may find all about these wonderfully educational symposiums at: http://theiwrc.org/symposium, in December (see last Dec description @ http://theiwrc.org/symposium until new one up); http://www.nwrawildlife.org/content/nwra-symposium-2015, March 10th, 2015, and Florida Wildlife Rehabilitators last symposium info @ http://www.fwra.org, which is usually in September.

As a "Thank You" I am offering back a "GIFT" to you equivalent to 5% of your donation up to the most expensive item in the form of items displayed and sold at the Symposium. Many such items are: artwork, books, t~shirts, mugs, jewelry and even caging supplies and rehab tools. I will display photos of many of these items on Facebook under Sharon Wilder and my Page, "Wilder Wildlife Rehab Ranch", within the first few days of my arrival so you may contact me with any special desires! Anyone who donates to my campaign will share in my cause and be saving many animals whose lives are endangered due to human civilizations' encroachment into the wild areas of our world.

As a "wildlife rehabilitator" I have a veterinarian sponsor who specializes in "wild animal care" but my clinic is still charged the same as the general public and this can be a crucial factor in a new organization. I will always take in an animal in need but must transfer on to other permitted rehabbers those animals I can not afford to care for. This costs the animal precious time that might otherwise save its life. In that respect, once I became a State Permitted Wildlife Rehabilitator I have committed myself to do the best I can for these animals. Attending symposiums such as the "International Wildlife Rehabilitators Symposium" exposes me to all the knowledge and expertise of specialists such as scientists and veterinarians along with a vast networking of other wildlife rehabilitators Nationally and Internationally.

As you see within this campaign, the second photo I posted is of me and my Dad. He inspired me through "his" world wide travel on business as well as in taking our family on many camping trips as I grew up, exploring many areas of the US, going to zoos, to aquariums and to wildlife refuges; just being "out doors" in the wild enabled our family to be so wonderfully close to nature. I have "dedicated" my wildlife rehab to my "Dad" who was the kind of man that never gave up; he gave me the same drive he had to strive for what I felt deep in my heart.

I could have chosen many paths but after much rehabilitation myself from a bad car accident I have come to appreciate how we all struggle so hard to survive. I can appreciate the determination an injured animal has to live, the strive to survive through much adversity and...I now have to say I would rather do this than anything else in the whole wild world.

....................And So...any DONATION, however small, buys live saving time.
  • International, National and Florida Wildlife Rehabilitator's Symposiums.
  • Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, in Maitland and Avian Reconditioning Center in Apopka

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