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Wildlife Rehabilitation Facing New Challenges

As we look ahead to 2025, Lindsay Wildlife Experience is bracing for an unprecedented challenge to our Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital and homecare operations: new regulations for wildlife rehabilitation in California. Beginning in spring 2025, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will implement stricter requirements for wildlife enclosures. While we already meet the current standards set by the National Wildlife…

Lindsay Wildlife Names Executive Director to Lead the Pioneering Wildlife Center

WALNUT CREEK, CA —The Lindsay Wildlife Experience Board of Directors is thrilled to name Karen Deshayes as the new Executive Director of the 68-year-old pioneering wildlife hospital and education center. A Bay Area resident and animal lover, Deshayes has served as interim director since August 2021. She assumes the permanent role on July 1. “We are excited to welcome Karen…

Lindsay Wildlife Experience Receives $50,000 Grant from Marathon Petroleum

Grant will bolster nonprofit organization’s public wildlife education and outreach efforts. WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Lindsay Wildlife Experience has received a $50,000 grant from the Marathon Petroleum Corporation to fund a mobile nature education van that will connect Bay Area communities with wildlife.  “Marathon’s generous grant will help us further our mission of connecting people to wildlife and inspiring responsibility…

MEDIA ALERT: Lindsay Wildlife Experience Implements Safety Measures to Address Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Jennifer Modenessi (925) 627-2925 [email protected] WALNUT CREEK, CALIF., — Due to the confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds in California on July 14 in Colusa and Glenn counties, Lindsay Wildlife Experience is taking necessary measures to protect the health and safety of its resident avian animal ambassadors and current wildlife patients. …

Lindsay Wildlife Experience Reaches 30-Year Lease Agreement with the City of Walnut Creek

Lease renewal keeps the SF Bay Area Education Center and Pioneering Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in the city where it was founded WALNUT CREEK, Calif., March 2, 2022 —  Lindsay Wildlife Experience has reached an agreement  with the City of Walnut Creek that will keep the beloved wildlife rehabilitation hospital and education center at its current home for the next several…

Lindsay Wildlife Experience Treating Grinnell, One of UC Berkeley's Famous Nesting Peregrine Falcons

SF Bay Area Pioneering Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital Caring for Raptor Found Injured at the Berkeley Tennis Club WALNUT CREEK, CALIF., Nov. 3,  2021 —  Lindsay Wildlife Experience is treating an injured Peregrine  Falcon and local avian celebrity in its wildlife rehabilitation hospital after it was found injured in Berkeley in late October. The Peregrine Falcon was discovered on Oct. 28…

Lindsay Wildlife Names New Board President

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jennifer Modenessi (925) 627-2925 [email protected] Lindsay Wildlife Announces the Appointment of Janet Kozlowski as President of its Board of Directors WALNUT CREEK, CALIF./ February 25, 2021/— Lindsay Wildlife Experience announced that Janet Kozlowski has been named the next President of its Board of Directors. Her three-year term began Tuesday, Feb. 9. Kozlowski succeeds Dr. Rosanne Siino,…

Lindsay Wildlife Announces Gary Bogue Memorial Veterinary Fund to Honor Its First Curator

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jennifer Modenessi (925) 627-2925 [email protected] Fund Will Ensure Patients At SF Bay Area Pioneering Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital Continue To Receive High-Quality Care WALNUT CREEK, CALIF./ November 8, 2019/— Lindsay Wildlife Experience announced that its Board of Directors has established a veterinary fund in memory of its beloved curator emeritus Gary Bogue, who died in September of…

Lindsay Wildlife Announces 10th Annual Fundraiser for Wildlife!

FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE Contact: Elisabeth Nardi (925)  627-2961 [email protected] Va de Vi Bistro & Wine Bar Hosts Major Fundraiser for Premiere SF Bay Area Wildlife Center WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. /July 26, 2019—Bid on a chance to name a new Lindsay Wildlife animal ambassador, sip fine wine and meet Lindsay’s new Executive Director Dr. Carlos de la Rosa at Lindsay’s premiere…