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Wildlife rehabilitation expert Nancy Vergara releases rehabbed Sharpie back to its home range. Photo by Stephanie Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n

When you hear the word \u201cconservation,\u201d what comes to mind? For many of us, conservation is a word we associate with large swaths of wild, protected land. While this association isn\u2019t wrong, it is incomplete. \u201cThose environments thrive because of the niches that the wildlife fill within them,\u201d says Savannah Trantham, executive director and co-founder of Appalachian Wildlife Refuge (AWR). \u201cSo if we\u2019re focusing on conserving the places, we hopefully\u2014naturally\u2014flow into preserving and conserving the species that call it home.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the important predator and prey relationships in every ecosystem, there are other, more subtle ways that wildlife fill various roles. Trantham uses the example of beavers, which, just by going about their natural dam-building behaviors, are supporting the aquatic life around them.<\/p>\n

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Screech Owl. Photo by Stephanie Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

Western North Carolina residents, on the whole, are lovers of nature. \u201cSo many people moved here and stayed here because they want that connection to nature, the environment,\u201d says Trantham. But well-meaning locals might not always have the tools or information necessary to care for wildlife properly. That\u2019s where AWR comes in. \u201cThe beautiful thing about AWR is that we\u2019re in a position that we can be those stewards for both humans and animals,\u201d says Trantham. \u201cWhen those humans find animals that need help, they bring them to us and we intervene and provide care and put them back. We\u2019re filling this gap in between the bad things that are happening to wildlife and returning them to their niche.\u201d As upsetting as every injured and orphaned animal may be, each encounter provides an opportunity for education. \u201cThis is the outcome of what somebody did,\u201d says Trantham, \u201cand this is how you can prevent this in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Vergara has been volunteering with AWR since 2017. She first encountered the organization when she rescued a rabbit from a cat attack. AWR connected her with a home-based rehabilitator for the rabbit because their facility was still under construction. \u201cAfter I got involved with AWR, I saw the need for places to take these animals that got injured,\u201d says Vergara. \u201cWhen your dog gets sick, when your cat gets hurt, you have the vet you take it to. All wildlife has no one to watch over it and a lot of their injuries are done because of us. We hit them with a car, we destroy their habitat, we destroy their nest, our cats kill the mom or injure the baby. A lot of the injuries and orphans that are brought to AWR are caused by humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Snapping turtle with shotgun injury to face. Photo by Stephanie Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

Vergara says she sees the AWR mission as two-fold: both rehabilitating and re-releasing wildlife into the wild and educating the public on how to coexist with animals. As the leader of the AWR hotline team, Vergara fields many calls about wildlife interaction. \u201cWe get calls about the bear eating my grapes, the groundhog eating my tulips,\u201d she says. \u201cThis was their land before we came in. We have to have space for these animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Orphaned skunk<\/p><\/div>\n

AWR is the only facility of its kind in NC. The nonprofit runs solely on donations and works with more than 2,000 animals each year. Their hotline fields almost 5,000 calls a year. But even with all this hard work, there is still so much more to be done in the world of wildlife conservation. \u201cWe cannot keep up with the need,\u201d says Trantham. \u201cThere could be four facilities like ours and they would all be full, all the time. We\u2019re working to grow and meet that need to the best of our ability so that there is a place for wildlife in our area.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to supporting the work of AWR, Trantham explains that small changes in behavior, like using safer lawn care methods that aren\u2019t toxic or dangerous to wildlife, can create a wave of huge change in the survival and thriving of wildlife in our area. \u201cWhen we see people making a difference and putting in the effort and being very intentional about making some changes, even if they\u2019re small, and it\u2019s just one thing, we start seeing that overall effect,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Learn more at AppalachianWild.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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