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.
Detecting Wildlife Illness And Death With New Early Alert System
A new early detection surveillance system for wildlife helps identify unusual patterns of illness and death in near real-time by tapping into data from wildlife rehabilitation organizations across California. This system has the potential to expand nationally and globally. It was created by scientists at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine with partners at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the nonprofit Wild Neighbors Database Project.
Wild Hope Magazine - Helping Hands
Hello friends! We are very excited and honored to have been featured in an article in Wild Hope Magazine.
WRMD∙Surveillance: Enhanced Wildlife Disease Surveillance Application
A novel wildlife disease surveillance tool for improving our understanding of wildlife health threats in California
Enhanced Wildlife Disease Surveillance in California
Nearly six years ago, when we first set out to create WRMD, we set a few priority goals. We first wanted to provide wildlife rehabilitators with an amazing, simple, and free database to help them with their daily record keeping needs. We also wanted to create an interface to aggregate data across multiple organizations and to allow for the entire community to benefit from their shared data.