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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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