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When rehabilitation records reveal something bigger

How observations from individual wildlife patients become signals that can help scientists and agencies recognize unusual health events.

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WildAlert

Crowdfunding Our Wildlife Disease Alert System

We need your help to improve, build and update the Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System (WMMEAS). In case you are not aware, the WMMEAS…

February 2, 2022
WRMD

Two New Fields Added

We just want to share a quick update on two new fields that were recently added; Entity and Morph.

January 26, 2022
WRMD

We Needed You and You Were There

It is with tremendous gratitude and appreciation that we share our most sincere thank you for a successful fundraising campaign. Our WRMD users have…

January 1, 2022
WRMD

To Our WRMD Community

Back in 2012 we started The Wild Neighbors Database Project, our 501(c)3 non-profit and launched WRMD as a labor of love. We developed WRMD for the co…

December 1, 2021
Organization

Help us Reach Our Goal of $10,000

Did you know that WRMD is the largest online wildlife rehabilitation community in the world, connecting 984 organizations in 50 US states and 25 count…

November 22, 2021
In the news

How Wildlife Rescuers Can Protect Public Health

A look at the monitoring system that tracks trends in wildlife illness and death, and what those trends can tell us about human health.

The Revelator · September 9, 2021
In the news

This AI Helps Detect Wildlife Health Issues in Real Time

How our founders have spent more than a decade standardizing wildlife record-keeping across hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers.

WIRED · August 16, 2021
In the news

Detecting Wildlife Illness and Death With a New Early Alert System

The first peer-reviewed paper describing the Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System that became WildAlert.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B · July 14, 2021
In the news

Tracking Wildlife Death and Disease With a New Early Alert System

UC Davis on the early-detection system built from data contributed by California wildlife rehabilitation organizations.

UC Davis · July 13, 2021
WRMD

We Are Updating Our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions

Today we are writing to let you know that we are updating our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. These changes will go into effect on May 10, 20…

May 5, 2021
WRMD

WRMD Server Error Follow Up

Over the past 24hrs one of WRMDs servers was experiencing critical server errors and caused WRMD to crash. First and foremost, this is embarrassing an…

March 31, 2021
WRMD

Because You're so Amazing - A Gift to All Our Users!

We are always looking for better opportunities and partnerships for WRMD, as are some of our most avid supporters. Well one of these amazing supporter…

March 25, 2021

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