Elusive Mississippi kite admitted to Wildlife Center of Virginia
On July 9, an officer with the Henrico Animal Protection department found a young raptor – a nestling, not yet able to fly or fend for itself – on the side of the road.
On July 9, an officer with the Henrico Animal Protection department found a young raptor – a nestling, not yet able to fly or fend for itself – on the side of the road.

“All good things must come to an end,” said Ed Clark, president and founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia. “UNTAMED,” the television series co-produced by the center and the Richmond-based VPM, will not be renewed for a fifth season.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will be releasing two juvenile bald eagles that have been patients at the Center during the summer months.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will host three on-camera events with their non-releasable education animals at the center on Wednesdays in August.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will be releasing an adult bald eagle on Tuesday, July 26, at 1 p.m. in Accomack County, after six weeks of rehabilitation.

Today marks World Snake Day, and the Wildlife Center of Virginia is celebrating the holiday with a live-streaming virtual discussion.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will be presenting at two events during the coming week, and audiences will have the chance to meet some of the non-releasable education ambassadors that call the center home.

A young Eastern cottontail rabbit was admitted to the Wildlife Center of Virginia in need of care last month. This specific individual represented an incredible milestone in the Center’s history: it was the 90,000th patient admitted since the non-profit organization’s founding in 1982.

The House voted 231-190 on Tuesday to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, a bipartisan conservation bill that will amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Act.

A bear cub found in a roadway in Nelson County last week was found to have a humeral fracture of his right front leg. Dr. Karra Peirce, the veterinary director at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro, knew just who to call.
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