Wildlife Rescue of Louisiana

31/07/2024

Bienville parish. Contact us at [email protected] if interested

24/07/2024

News from the Humane Society of Louisiana: A Canada goose has been seen with a lure and fishing line tied around one of its legs. It was last seen at North Park in Denham Springs, Livingston Parish.

Please let us know if you can respond, or please cross-post.

02/07/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana -

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14/05/2024

Insulin Alert from the Humane Society of Louisiana: What happens when you eat an entire pint of chocolate chip ice cream or look at the photos of a joey sitting in a hammock? For us, it's about the same experience. It's called 'sweetness overload'. A member donated some small hammocks to us, and we mailed them to our good friend JenniLynn Johnson, a licensed opossum rehabber.

Much like receiving a gallon of ice cream, the gift was well received.

03/05/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Good morning! We thank you for all your support throughout the year. Because of you, we're able to help animals in virtually every corner of our state. Today, instead of our weekly $5.00 Friday Fundraiser, we'd love for you to donate to our GiveNOLA DAY fundraiser (sorry, $10 minimum.)

Your donations allow us to operate three sanctuaries and manage our new headquarters in Gretna. They also allow us to help hundreds of criminally abused animals, lobby at the local and state levels, and reach thousands of people through our social media channels each week.

Because of you, we're able to do so much!

GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to one or more of 700+ participating nonprofit organizations.

30/04/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: As promised, we've chosen this spring's Wildlife Rehabbers Caption Contest! Each winner will be sent a $100 to support their wildlife rehabilitation efforts!

And the winners are......

#1: Jodie L. Smith
Caption: "Nothing is imopossumable"

#2. Leah Glass Andressen
Caption: "Hey Lady, you are choking me!"

#3: Ally Gallery Burguieres
Caption: "Them: Oreos aren't dinner treats"
"Me: "

#4: Dawn Lott
Caption: "Sweet girl hanging out until released"

#5: Lynette Baradell
Caption: "No more kisses!"

If you entered and didn't win, we'll have another contest this summer. Congratulations, everyone, and, rehabbers, thanks for all you do!!!!

Checks will be mailed within the next 24 hours.

25/04/2024

21/04/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: It's time for another 'Caption Contest' to support our wildlife rehabilitators.
$500 will be distributed to five rehabbers. All licensed wildlife rehabbers and sub-permittees are eligible to enter. Here's what you need to know:

Wildlife Caption Contest
Submit one photo of one of your in-takes and add a caption
Send the entry to [email protected]. In the heading of your email, write "Caption Contest." Add your name, the name of your wildlife center if you operate one, and your mailing address
The contest starts on April 21 and ends at midnight on April 28th.
$100 will be awarded to five rehabbers.

Best of luck!!

16/04/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Everyone deserves a chance to live and enjoy life, especially the "least of these," which happens to be one of our favorite biblical verses (Matthew 25:40).

One of our go-to wildlife transporters, Mandy Rice, is leaving now to pick up an injured baby turtle that was hit by a moving vehicle. She'll deliver it to our friends at Clearwater Wildlife Sanctuary.

Care to help? Please donate to us at [email protected] or register to be one of our volunteer wildlife transporters. Send

16/04/2024

News from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Our beloved Save the Black Bear license plate will no longer help the black bear if changes to a bill are enacted. More than 25 years ago, with the help of then-Senator Foster Campbell, our Humane Society drafted and passed a bill that created the Save the Black Bear license plate. At the time, the Louisiana black bear, our state mammal, was listed as threatened, and hunting it was prohibited. The proceeds from the sale of each plate would go toward protecting the habitat of black bears and supporting non-game activities.

This year, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries established a 10-bear hunting season beginning in December. In the meantime, Louisiana Representative Neil Riser, an avid big game hunter, has introduced legislation, House Bill 684, that strikes specific language from our original bill and directs the proceeds to the Conservation Fund, which supports pro-hunting initiatives.

To defeat this bill, please call the Senate Committee on Natural Resources members and urge them to vote against the passage of HB 684. You can read the bill here: https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358968

You can reach the Senate Committee members here (https://senate.la.gov/Sen_Committees/NaturalResources):

Senator Bob Hensgens [email protected]
Senator Robert Allain [email protected]
Senator Sam Jenkins [email protected]
Senator Eddie Lambert [email protected]
Senator Michael Fesi, [email protected]
Senator Royce Duplessis [email protected]
Senator Cabb Kleinpeter [email protected]
Senator Patrick Connick [email protected]

Please cross-post.

05/04/2024

It's our $5.00 Friday, and we're raising funds to make some upgrades and improvements to our barn! Please chip in a wee bit!

02/04/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana:

Thank you, wildlife rescuers, transporters, and licensed rehabbers. Our state offers few resources to help injured, displaced, or orphaned wildlife. Much of the work to save and help injured animals falls on the shoulders of volunteers and a few big-hearted licensed wildlife rehabbers and centers. Even getting an injured animal from point A to B requires a lot of different people, skills, and willingness to help.

A warehouse worker contacted Acadiana Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation, Inc. after noticing a hawk had been in their warehouse for about a week. They didn't think the hawk had much to eat or drink. Acadiana reached out to Amanda Harcrow-Nerdmomnola, a licensed rehabber, who was able to catch the hawk and bring it home. LSU Vet Teaching School, which treats injured wildlife, agreed to take it, but not until the next morning.

We contacted a volunteer who agreed to pick up the hawk from Amanda's home at 8 am and deliver it to the center by 10 am. Because so few people are involved in this vocation, treating one injured hawk requires enormous logistical support and coordination.
You can help by becoming a wildlife rehabber. To learn how, please visit https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/page/wildlife-rehab-permit-and-basic-skills-course.

We will soon announce our inaugural Wildlife Rehabbers Appreciation Week to bring attention to this vocation and industry. During the week, we'll issue several press releases inviting people to get involved, get permitted, or donate to their local rehab center or licensed individual.

During this legislative session, we also, with the help of State Representative Jacob Braud (R—District 105), introduced House Bill 641, which created a new special license plate that read "Support our Wildlife Rehabbers." Proceeds from the sale of these plates would support licensed rehabilitators.

You can donate on Paypal at [email protected] or under "donate" at www.humanela.org to support these efforts.

02/04/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Here's the perfect way to learn more about and appreciate the Louisiana black bear - attend the upcoming Bayou Teche Black Bear Festival, held Saturday, April 15th, in Franklin, in St. Mary Parish. Even though our state has chosen to open up a 10-limit black bear hunting season this year, we can still support efforts to preserve and appreciate this beautiful creature.

For more information, please visit:

The Festival, an outreach program to educate the residents of St. Mary Parish on the Louisiana Black Bear, will feature live music, food, education activities, field trips and children's activities in true Louisiana style

22/02/2024

Important news from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Now this is definitely a festival we plan to attend and support! Finally, a festival that educates, empowers, and teaches us to live peacefully with other living creatures! I hope you'll join us at this wonderful event that is only a few weeks away!

The Festival, an outreach program to educate the residents of St. Mary Parish on the Louisiana Black Bear, will feature live music, food, education activities, field trips and children's activities in true Louisiana style

11/02/2024

Dear Black Bear Advocates,

Thank you for signing our Stop the Louisiana Black Bear Hunt. We collected more than 10,000 signatures, and our petition, which closed on February 5th, was sent to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and will be included in its public comment registry.

The hunt, regrettably, despite our objections, is scheduled to take place this December. The Dept of Wildlife and Fisheries will distribute 10 hunting licenses through a lottery system and allow ten bears to be shot and killed (they say the hunt will be limited to larger males).

However, our work to advocate for the bears will continue. We plan to reach out to the four federally recognized Native American tribes in Louisiana and learn what they know about the black bear. The black bear likely appears in their art, in their folktales, and beliefs. We plan to share what we learn on our social media platform and through timely press releases and news conferences.

To support our efforts, please join us as a member by donating any size amount: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/humanela

05/02/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: The results from our most recent wildlife essay contest have been determined and certified, and the winners are:

JenniLynn Johnson
Tisha Raiford
Leah Anderssen
Lynette Baradell and
Laurie Bradley Laughlin

Congratulations to these and all our hard-working wildlife rehabber friends!

Checks for $100 will be mailed to each winner!!! Please join us in congratulating all our winners and all our licensed rehabbers! They are doing an amazing job of helping the "least of these."

24/01/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: We're just a few hundred short of reaching our goal of 10,000 signatures on our Stop the Louisiana Black Bear Hunt petition. We are encouraging our state to use the BearWise program that was developed and remains in use in Florida. Florida's Wildlife and Fisheries Commission educates its residents on steps to take to minimize and reduce bear-human contact, thereby reducing the need to kill bears; its proven to be highly effective.

Please sign and cross-post. KATC TV covers the story. Please sign here: https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-louisiana-black-bear-hunt

https://www.katc.com/st-mary-parish/black-bear-hunting-season-returns-st-mary-parish-reacts

For the first time in nearly 40 years black bear hunting excluding females and cubs will be allowed in the northeastern part of Louisiana.

22/01/2024

News from the Humane Society of Louisiana: We are now accepting grant applications from all licensed wildlife rehabbers, sub-permittees, or rehab centers. We will distribute five $100 grants and the winners will be announced on February 5th. Grant applications are due by January 30th.

Grant guidelines: submit a one-half page (approximately 125 words) on the reason you are a licensed rehabber and what it means to you. Please include one photo. Send your application with the heading: Wildlife Rehabber Grant Application to [email protected] by January 31st to be considered. Winners will be announced no later than February 5th. Include your name, the name of your center (if applicable), and your mailing address.

Best of luck to all our entrants!

22/01/2024

News from the Humane Society of Louisiana: We've collected more than 8,800 signatures from those who oppose the proposed Louisiana black bear hunt. The hunt is scheduled to take place this December. We hope to reach 10,000 signatures soon.

To help, please sign, share, and send your comments to John Hanks at [email protected].

1,189 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

21/01/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Please help us reach our goal of 10,000 signatures on our Stop the Black Bear Hunt petition. Please join us in voicing our objections and concerns about this unnecessary and cruel hunt. https://chng.it/sKM8sWPSGp

Please also send your comments to John Hanks, Large Omnivore Program Manager at Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries at [email protected]. Your comments will be entered into the public registry on this subject.

WWL TV covers the story: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/louisiana-to-allow-black-bear-hunting-again-this-year/289-e92948b0-b1be-49c7-bc35-b079bdfadfaf

If you want to be inspired to sign and get involved, simply watch this video of a black bear family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&fbclid=IwAR0uVHGvh1BPGykkd-PFsSyBMhxFSklUcEPDL4bIw7LmPOVOqjDyAHHFCn4&v=h3mRZ29AJ7I

A petition gaining more signatures aims to stop the hunt from happening.

17/01/2024

Dear Friends,

We need your help to stop the proposed Louisiana black bear hunt. For the first time in decades, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has filed a Notice of Intent to resume bear hunting, with up to 10 bear killed in December of this year.

We have been working almost every day to bring attention to this tragedy and have given interviews to a dozen major new outlets, including the Morning Advocate, US News, Louisiana Public Radio Network, and WDSU to name a few. You can help by signing our petition and by emailing your concerns and opposition to this proposed hunt to John Hanks, Large Omnivore Program Manager at Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries, at [email protected].

In the comment section, please let us know that you completed one or both Action Steps.

https://www.nola.com/news/environment/petition-aims-to-halt-restart-of-bear-hunting-in-louisiana/article_ad76a026-b4cf-11ee-9da5-ff8aae3f206e.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2024-01-17/louisiana-looks-to-revive-black-bear-hunting-for-1st-time-in-decades-but-theres-pushback

A move is underway that wildlife advocates hope will persuade Louisiana to end plans to overturn a nearly 40-year-old hunting ban on black bears

07/01/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently adopted and published its Notice of Intent to open a hunting season for the once-threatened Louisiana black bear in December of this year. Florida, which also has its own black bear population, has created its own non-lethal program called the BearWise Program that encourages the co-existence with bears with pro-active steps one can take to minimize human/bear contact. We strongly favor
that approach, which instills respect and appreciation for our large omnivores.

We are close to reaching our first goal of 1,000 signers. Please sign and share today!

Save the Louisiana Black Bear

05/01/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Please read our interview with the Louisiana Illuminator, an online newspaper, and sign our petition. Let's show solidarity or the Louisiana black bear! If we don't speak up for them, who will?

https://lailluminator.com/2024/01/05/resident-starts-petition-to-stop-legalization-of-louisiana-black-bear-hunting/

You can sign here: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-louisiana-black-bear?recruiter=1218787&recruited_by_id=86c75b06-2da2-410e-ba18-d65dc134911b&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=sms

A petition to stop the proposed legalization of black bear hunting in Louisiana has gathered more than 600 signatures in just a few days.

05/01/2024

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: There's still time to sign our petition to help protect the Louisiana black bear. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is considering allowing a limited black bear hunt this December. Please add your name to those who oppose this senseless hunt. Station KPLC covers the story: https://www.kplctv.com/video/2024/01/05/louisiana-black-bear-hunting-may-take-place-this-winter/

Please sign here:
https://chng.it/XDwSy5TKTw

Save the Louisiana Black Bear

31/12/2023

News from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Please sign our petition that opposes next year's proposed black bear hunting season! Signing this petition will show solidarity and support for our efforts to protect these wonderful creatures. The petition will be forwarded to Mr. John Hanks, Large Carnivore Program Manager, Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries.

With an estimated population of only 1200, we must band together to protect part of our heritage and their lives.

You can also watch WDSU TV's recent news segment on this subject: https://www.wdsu.com/article/louisiana-black-bear-hunting-season-may-take-place-in-2024/46254192

https://chng.it/SQW9wGqtDp

Save the Louisiana Black Bear

20/12/2023

Update from the Humane Society of Louisiana: Here's another easy and simple way to help our group: Use iGive.com when ordering online and designate our charity as your preferred choice! iGive.com works just like Amazon Smile, which also donated a certain percentage of all sales to the charity of your choice.

Our Humane Society will also get $5.00 for each new registrant!
You can sign up here: https://www.igive.com/html/tellafriend.cfm

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