<p>“Every single wildlife rehabilitator is important, big or small…” - Rachel Avilla</p><p></p><p>In this conversation, Gail and her first co-host, Julia Ponder, a clinical wildlife veterinarian with a background in public health, speak with members of the Wild Alert team: Rachel Avilla, President, Co-Founder, and Executive Director of The Wild Neighbors Database Project; Terra Kelly, an epidemiologist and wildlife health specialist; and Pranav Pandit, a One Health epidemiologist. They discuss what Wild Alert is, what it does, and the projects they are currently working on. In the next episode, they take a deeper dive into how the system is used.</p><p></p><p>Special thanks to our guests, Partners For Wildlife, and The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.</p><p></p><p><u style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Resources mentioned:</u></p><p><a href="https://wildalert.org/" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);">https://wildalert.org/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wildneighborsdp.org" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);">www.wildneighborsdp.org</a></p><p></p><p></p>