Wildlife Rehabilitation Certification!

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I had the awesome opportunity to take part in a basic wildlife rehabilitation workshop over the course of two consecutive weekends. The workshop was packed with seminars, hands-on activities and guest speakers.

The workshop was held at the Western North Carolina Nature Center in Asheville, NC.

We were given three reference guides and a kit with the essentials of rehabilitation, which included syringes, needles, feeding tubes and feeding nipples. (The second manual to the right is my own.)

We learned about enrichment and broke into groups to make different types of enrichment for the animals at the nature center. Here is one of the otters with his enrichment. Inside the floating ball is a treat that he has to reach inside to get.

 My group did enrichment for the grey wolves. We took large paper bags, filled them with wool and stuffed a dead baby quail inside. This was a sensory enrichment.

Here is one of the wolves, happily taking off with his enrichment.

We practiced subcutaneous and intramuscular fluid injections on cadaver animals.

Here I am practicing on a dead baby Robin.

We got to listen to Animal Ambassadors from the center talk to us about their education animals. 


Here is Art, the Barred Owl, another education animal. 


We got to release a snapping turtle that had been rehabilitated. 

Here is a baby snapping turtle.

Comparison to my hand.

Comparison to the turtle we released.

Snapping turtles can be pretty vicious. If you see here, her legs are pretty much exposed and her shell does not offer protection. This is why they are so "mean", as a way to protect themselves. Snapping turtles can reach all the way around to their back legs, so if you hold one, make sure you are behind the legs!

Learning about a variety of caging and restraint methods.

The workshop also covered topics such as:
Rabies Vector Animals
Toxic Plants
Specific Methods of Rehab for Squirrels, Opossums, Rabbits and Reptiles
Euthanasia

and many other wildlife rehab-related topics.

And in the end, I received:









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Kalysha Clark is a recent graudate of North Carolina State University where she earned a Bachelor's of Science in Zoology and a minor in nonprofit studies. She is currently serving as a member of AmeriCorps and will return to NC State in January to begin her Master's program in Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology.

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I am a graduate of NC State University with a Bachelors of Science in Zoology and a minor in Nonprofit Studies.

I am currently a Master's Student at NC State studying Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology. Part of my thesis will focus on how state action plans and policies look at and incorporate climate change and land use change. I am highly interested in habitat use, movement ecology and behavior, and hope to study these during my Master's and, later, my PhD.

I am currently working on my North Carolina Environmental Education Certification.

My skills include: Radio telemetry, Camera Trap Installation and Calibration, Animal Handling, Data Entry and Management, Animal Husbandry, Animal Behavior, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Raptor Handling, Project Planning, Fundraising, Public Speaking, Time Management and Organization

Classes I'm Currently Taking

-Conservation Biology
-Quantitative Methods in Education
-Wildlife Seminar
-Resource Selection Functions

Current Projects

-Evaluating Efficacy of Conservation Planning in the Southeast
-Evaluating the Household Dynamics of Wildlife Value Orientations

Honors, Awards, and Certifications

-Bachelor of Science in Zoology, 2015
-Minor in Nonprofit Studies
-Dean's List, Spring 2012, Fall 2013
-Roots and Shoots Founders' Award, $100, 2012-2013
-Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation Certification, March 2013
-Visionary Leader Certificate, Spring 2012

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