In July, a heat-wave with temperatures reaching 118 degrees had a deadly impact on a huge maternity roost of Mexican free-tailed bats located on the underside of a freeway overpass in Bakersfield. Surviving baby bats were dispersed to wildlife rescue centers across...
This April and May, in the middle of the busy baby season, hundreds of starving Brown Pelicans turned up weak and disoriented on our beaches. Whereas NAR normally handles 30 pelicans a year, this year, over 240 starving pelicans were brought to NAR. This newsletter...
A quiet afternoon at Native Animal Rescue lights up when famed National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore walks in. Early one morning in June 2024, NAR received an email from National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore. Joel was photographing unusual animals at...
This is the story of how local residents Kimberly, Doug, and their daughter Faith reunited a baby squirrel with its mother after the baby had fallen out of its nest located in a nearby tree. After checking to ensure the squirrel wasn’t injured, the family placed the...
Towards the end of 2022, three unrelated mountain lion cubs were found at different times and locations in the Santa Cruz Mountains. After assessing the situation, staff from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife decided to transport each of the cubs to the...
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