Anya's B-day Fundraiser for Noco Wildlife Center!

 For my birthday this year, I’m hoping to raise funds to aid Northern Colorado Wildlife Center’s continued effort to provide wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release. Not to mention, everything from public education, to mass wildland clean-ups, and restoration efforts. We’ve had over 2,385 animals come in to the Wildlife Center in just 2024 alone, with each patient’s care averaging around $350. We’re thrilled to have been able to do so much this year with the help of our amazing supporters, volunteers, and interns, but it doesn’t stop here. We expect to save even more animals in 2025, and to do so we need your help. So please help me donate to Northern Colorado Wildlife Center this Holiday season, if you love animals, wildlife, conservation, or even if you just love me!

 To tell you a little bit more about why I’m so passionate about Wildlife Rehabilitation, and Northern Colorado Wildlife Center specifically, we have to go back, way back. Growing up in Flagstaff, Arizona my family didn’t have television beyond VHS movies. I spent my time exploring the national forest near our block's end, eagerly studying the wildlife. When my family and I moved to Colorado, and my parents purchased cable, I would religiously watch the channel Animal Planet. My favorite show was “The Crocodile Hunter” featuring Steve Irwin. I aspired to be like him, studying wildlife in their natural habitat and educating the public. Since then I knew I wanted to be a zoologist, and have done everything I can to realize that goal. One step down that pathway for me was begging my parents to let me volunteer at the local shelter which ultimately opened the door to my two greatest mentors. Bob Nightwalker and his son Tallon Nightwalker have been incredibly influential to my aspirations, knowledge, and respect for wildlife. In a bittersweet way, they remind me of Steve Irwin. Bob was the head wildlife rehabilitator in the WildKind program at Larimer Humane Society where I first started volunteering, so of course his son Tallon would come in frequently too. I have learned an incalculable amount of information and technique from Bob and Tallon, I could never be more grateful. I have volunteered, interned, or been employed with the two of them at 3 separate organizations for wildlife rehabilitation.  It’s been amazing to learn from them while they created the non-profit Northern Colorado Wildlife Center, and continually dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the care and conservation of wildlife species.