WildCare Takes a Stand
When legislative policies or human behaviors threaten the welfare of wildlife in the Bay Area, WildCare takes a stand — and helps you do so, too. By signing up for our Action Alert Team, we'll keep you posted on all our current campaigns, giving you the tools you need to voice your opinion or create a better habitat for wildlife in your backyard.
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Current Take Action Alerts
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During the spring and summer months, our hospital is full of orphaned baby animals who need
round-the-clock care. Some of these animals have lost their parents
while others have lost their homes to ill-timed tree trimming. Please do your
part to help nesting birds by waiting to trim your trees until summer, after babies have fledged!
Click here to learn more...
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A recent EPA ruling to start the process of banning several anti-coagulant rat poisons from consumer markets needs to go further! The ban will pull these poisons from consumer shelves will help the animals that live in urban areas, but the restrictions don't pertain to farm and feed stores in rural areas. In those areas consumers can still buy hundreds of pounds of rat poison if they like, meaning that untold numbers of hawks, owls, foxes and bobcats will eat dying rodents and suffer poisoning themselves. Read more and sign our petition...
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Ongoing Advocacy Issues
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WildCare strongly opposes the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to eradicate non-native mice from the islands with aerial dumping of "Brodifacoum-25 Conservation" rodenticide. USFWS is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) due to be completed in spring of 2012. Read more...
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Every year WildCare accepts hundreds of animal patients that have been tangled in fishing line, fishing hooks or other manmade plastics. The injuries sustained by tangled animals are both terrible and preventable. Click to learn more about our fishing line recycling program!
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One of the easiest things we can do to help wildlife and ourselves is to shop wisely. The imported fruits and vegetables found in our shopping carts in winter and early spring are grown with types and amounts of pesticides that would often be illegal in the United States.
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The EPA recently released new restrictions on the rodenticides considered most dangerous to non-target wildlife like hawks, owls and bobcats. Read about a Red-shouldered Hawk that recovered from poisoning in WildCare's hospital and learn about our work on this issue!
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WildCare is taking a stand against the use of glue or "sticky" traps for pest rodent control. These traps are not only ineffective, they are unbelieveably cruel to both the target animals caught, and to non-target animals accidentally stuck like songbirds and small pets.
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