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The goal of wildlife rehabilitation is to release recovered animals back home, into the wild. Wild ARC rehabilitators work hard to ensure that animals have all the natural behaviours and skills they will need to survive in their environment. Animals are given plenty of enrichment to learn how to fly, swim, dive, climb, fish and …
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News Category: Wildlife
The BC SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre (Wild ARC) is celebrating their silver anniversary! If you had seen Wild ARC when it first opened in 1997, you might not recognize the Centre as it looks today, 25 years on. The facilities and enclosures have grown and improved to accommodate the increase in wild patients; the …
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News Category: Wildlife
The global reptile trade is booming. Each year, millions of snakes, lizards, turtles and tortoises are bought and sold as pets around the world. Reptiles enter this massive trade from a variety of sources. Those on the inside have specific terms for these, some of which are purposely misleading. Sadly, the confusion caused by these …
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Clever. Affectionate. Helpful. Vulnerable. Not many people use these words to describe bats. Creepy, ugly, scary or dangerous are far more likely choices — and yet bats truly are intelligent, sensitive creatures. They perform valuable ecosystem services as pollinators, seed dispersers and insect predators. Bats are among the most misunderstood animals in the world. Myths …
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The BC SPCA applauds the reintroduction of the Jane Goodall Act into Parliament today. “If this bill moves forward, it will mark a very significant victory for Canada’s most vulnerable exotic and wild animals in captivity,” says Dr. Sara Dubois, the BC SPCA’s chief scientific officer. The bill includes a phase-out of elephant captivity as …
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People sometimes ask why the BC SPCA has the Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre (Wild ARC) and why we work so hard to save wild animals. It’s a great question, there are many reasons why wildlife rehabilitation is important. Wildlife injuries are often human-caused – and we can help Most wild animals that arrive at Wild ARC …
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February 1, 2022, marks the start of this Lunar New Year. A centuries old tradition, the Lunar New Year is celebrated in many countries across Asia and around the world. In Chinese culture, each year in the 12 year lunar cycle is represented by a different animal and – according to the Chinese zodiac – …
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News Category: Wildlife
For the past 10 months, you have been helping the BC SPCA shine a light on the inhumane mink farming industry, which presents a serious risk to public health in a pandemic. But for two wild mink on Vancouver Island, their rehabilitation story reminds us what is at stake. When an orphaned young mink in …
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Vernon Rodent Control, a local rodenticide-free rodent control company, is the first in the region to receive BC SPCA AnimalKind accreditation and the third wildlife and rodent control company in the province to be recognized for their commitment to high animal welfare. David Taylor, owner and operator at Vernon Rodent Control, founded the company with …
News Category: Wildlife
A young baby female mink was recently found crying, alone and distressed. With no mother in sight and the baby vocalizing continuously, she had to be brought to the BC SPCA’s Wild ARC for help. “Our rehabilitation team stabilized the baby mink and tried to locate the den she came from – a wild animal’s …
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