Iowa
Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
"Answering a Wild Call for Help"
The Iowa Wildlife Rehabilitators Association is a non-profit organization, founded in 1986, with the goal of improving the ability of licensed rehabilitators to provide care for distressed wildlife and to support natural resource conservation.
Over the last two centuries, Iowa's natural landscape has been altered dramatically by humans. Vast expanses of prairie, river woodland corridors, and wetlands have become farm fields cities, and roads. Through conservation efforts, many species of wildlife still thrive in the state.
As wildlife adapts to living with an increasing human population, data show that 80% of the causes for an animal needing rehabilitation are human-related:
- trauma from collisions with vehicles, transmission lines, towers, and windows
- human disturbance of nesting habitats
- poisoning from pesticides or lead
- illegal shooting
- entanglement in improperly disposed of fishing line or other plastics
- domestic animal attacks