Stories and Updates

Explore our posts for updates on our projects and team. We aim for this page to be a valuable source of information; providing you with in-depth tutorials and behind-the-scenes glimpses into our work; as well as a retrospective look at our journey thus far.

Rachel Avilla 11/22/21 Rachel Avilla 11/22/21

Help us Reach Our Goal of $10,000

Did you know that WRMD is the largest online wildlife rehabilitation community in the world, connecting 984 organizations in 50 US states and 25 countries? Since 2012 WRMD users have admitted over 2.2 MILLION patients! Our incredible community of users grows larger every year and we need your help.

Rachel Avilla 9/9/21 Rachel Avilla 9/9/21

How Wildlife Rescuers Can Protect Public Health - The Revelator

A new surveillance system tracks trends in wildlife illness and death and could help keep people healthy.

Rachel Avilla 8/16/21 Rachel Avilla 8/16/21

This AI Helps Detect Wildlife Health Issues in Real Time

Dombrowski and his wife, Rachel Avilla, are both wildlife rehabilitators who have been working to standardize record-keeping since 2010, when they founded the Wild Neighbors Database Project. They had become frustrated that staffers at rehab centers were using anything from paper records to isolated Excel spreadsheets to track medical records. “When it’s on paper, you’d have to go through boxes and boxes of paperwork to figure out what you gave that golden eagle 10 years ago,” Avilla says

Rachel Avilla 7/14/21 Rachel Avilla 7/14/21

Detecting Wildlife Illness and Death With New Early Alert System

We are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our first research paper. Over the past few years we have been working with Dr Terra Kelly and Dr Pranav Pandit from the UC Davis One Health Institute to develop The Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System (WMMEAS).