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Wendy Looker
Wildlife Rehabilitator
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everything humans touch have an effect on some part of the environment.
Some of these are positive, and some are very negative. It takes
an extraordinary person to turn a negative into a positive, and
to make changes to help the environment and the wildlife that depend
upon it. One such extraordinary person is Wendy Looker. Wendy is
a certified Wildlife Rehabilitator who cares for a wide variety
of wildlife at her home through a non-profit organization that she
founded, called Rehabitat. While Wendy cares for many animals, her
specialty, and her passion are working with raptors. Wendy explains
that 95% of the 80 to 120 raptors which come into her clinic each
year are there because of an altercation with humans; being hit
by a car, hitting a glass window, electrocution from power lines,
or poisonings. Wendy takes these very sick and injured beauties
and offers them medical care and kindness until they are ready to
be released back into their natural world. In cases where the birds
are too injured to be returned to the wild, these birds become part
of the Rehabitat traveling education crew. They are used to teach
people about raptors and their importance to our natural world.
She also hopes to dispel some of the mysteries which surround raptors
and may make people fearful, by bringing the birds into our lives
for an up close view. Extraordinary people making a difference,
that's what Wendy Looker and Rehabitat, are all about.
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