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As one of the world’s leading teaching hospitals for wildlife medicine, the Wildlife Center of Virginia has a core mission to teach the world to care about and care for wildlife and the environment. This news page collects stories of the Center’s expertise in action.


June 21, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010:
June 21, 2010
Conclusions and Next Steps: Even before we got home, the team started to work on a report from the trip, and a set of recommendations.   Without going into too many details at this point, I will simply say that we were of one mind – much more work needs to be put into the rescue and recovery of oiled wildlife, and steps need to be taken today to create the means to monitor wildlife and environmental health into the future. 
June 17, 2010

Highlights of Oil Spill Damage Assessment Team Activities in the Gulf of Mexico June 10 to 15, 2010

June 9, 2010
May 24, 2010

The Wildlife Center of Virginia, an internationally acclaimed teaching and research hospital for wildlife and conservation medicine located in Waynesboro, has admitted the 55,000th patient of its history – a Virginia Opossum that was orphaned when its mother was struck and killed by a car near Keezletown in Rockingham County.  

May 4, 2010

Statement of Ed Clark, President and Co-Founder, Wildlife Center of Virginia

Like wildlife lovers around the world, the Wildlife Center of Virginia has been monitoring the situation in the Gulf of Mexico, as oil from the massive blowout of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform steadily advances on the fragile coastline of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The potential impact on wildlife defies the imagination.

April 27, 2010
The Wildlife Center of Virginia, the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for wild animals, today announced that the Norfolk Botanical Garden Bald Eagle – admitted to the Center as a patient in May 2008 and an international “celebrity” – will become a permanent resident at the Center.            

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