The Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center takes in up 3,500 wild animals per year, including abandoned black bear cubs. Its seeking corporate sponsorship to stay afloat.
Susan Downing, an executive director at the Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center in Stroudsburg, stands beneath Aegis, a bald eagle missing a wing after an injury.“We need a lot of toilet paper for a lot of little butts,” Kathy Uhler, the center’s founder and education director.
“I’m down to $10,000 a year,” co-executive director Janine Tancredi said while bottle-feeding baby squirrels. “Right now, we’re skating by week per week.” Many of those birds of prey had dead rats or mice splayed out in their cages and pens, and they’re not cheap.One young bald eagle, named Aegis, hopped around on tree limbs in an expansive flight pen.Aegis was shot, illegally, and found in a field. The eagle will never fly again, but Downing and Tancredi are trying to get an exhibition permit for educational purposes.
Uhler caught notice and turned the Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation Center over to them both in 2022. She’s still the center’s education director.
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