Every Wildlife Record Tells a Story
Every animal admitted to a wildlife rehabilitation organization has a story.
Where they were found, what happened to them, their condition, treatment, and outcome.
Photo courtesy of Sonoma County Wildlife
When that information is entered into WRMD, it becomes the record of one animal's experience. But when we zoom out and look across thousands of wildlife records, those individual experiences tell us a much bigger story.
Together, wildlife records can help reveal patterns in disease, injury, mortality, species, geography, and more, giving us a broader understanding of wildlife health.
This idea is at the heart of the larger mission of The Wild Neighbors Database Project: We harness wildlife data, transforming it into shared intelligence that protects animals, people, and the planet we share.
You may know us through one of our four database platforms, WRMD, OWRMD, WildAlert and Ceto. Each is part of how we carry out our larger mission. These tools and our partnerships with their users allow wildlife information to tell a broader story of wildlife health.
An unusual case at one organization may simply look like an unusual case. Similar cases appearing across multiple organizations may tell us something more. Millions of wildlife records, responsibly connected and evaluated, have the potential to tell us something extraordinary about the health of wildlife and the world we share.
Over the coming months, we'll be sharing more about this side of The Wild Neighbors Database Project, including real world stories of how wildlife health data has helped identify emerging concerns and make a difference for wildlife.
Thank you for being one of our partners and contributing to this unfolding story.
The Wild Neighbors Database Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. If you'd like to support this extraordinary work, your gift helps us continue building the tools and connections that turn wildlife data into knowledge we can act on.
Connecting Data Responsibly
We recognize that connecting wildlife data raises important questions about privacy, ownership and how information is used. We understand and take responsible data stewardship very seriously. It is fundamental to this work, and to our partnership with you. Where data is brought together to identify broader trends and patterns, it is anonymized to protect individual organizations and sensitive information. We know that shared intelligence is about identifying meaningful patterns in wildlife health, and we are committed to protecting sensitive information and respecting how individual organizations' data can be accessed and used.
We thank you for trusting us and helping us reach a future where the story told by wildlife data leads to healthier ecosystems, stronger communities, and a more sustainable world.
With gratitude,
The Wild Neighbors Database Project Team
