According to the United States Census Bureau website, Orlando has grown from 2010 to 2018 by 19.6%, and with this increase in population comes an increase in urban development that likely caused the death of one raccoon by suffocation on a glass mason jar. “People feel entitled like it’s our land when it’s not our land, we have to share it,” says Tomasz Gruzyinski, … [Read more...]
Back to Nature: The 30-Year Anniversary of Our Local Wildlife Refuge
This story began when founder Carmen Shaw cared for wildlife before the wildlife rehabilitation field really started. Her generation set the stage for many organizations and citizens to emerge who cared for our wildlife with the hopes of seeing it return to its natural environment where it belongs. Carmen spent most of her life caring for wildlife, and, in June 1989, Back to … [Read more...]