Our patients
Featured patients
We care for and house wildlife for release – animals recovering after injury or sickness. When our patients are healthy again, they get a second chance of life in freedom. No permanent wild residents. To protect hospitalized animals from stress while recovering, we do not allow visits by the public.
However, you can watch the beavers in our care in realtime on our YouTube channel here.
Find out how you can sponsor our “livestream” and get your business logo or name onto the screen!
Currently our Indoor Enclosure is “live”.
Sponsorship info for our BeaverCams here.
Featured patients 2024
Beaver indoor pen
This orphaned beaver kit was transferred to us by another BC wildlife rehabilitation centre. It is was fed beaver milk formula upon arrival and has since been weaned to join our other kit. Together they will have access to the heated indoor "beaver hotel" and a large outdoor enclosure.
Beaver outdoor pen
Our older orphaned beaver kit was brought to us by another BC wildlife rehabilitation centre. It is on a herbivorous diet of browse and aquatic plants and has been slowly introduced to our younger kit. They will grow up together, keeping each other company and mentally healthy.
Small mammal
indoor nursery
This big brown bat was found grounded and unable to fly at night. We are treating it for a wrist injury whilst housing for restricted movement in a soft sided bat-enclosure.
Update: This bat was humanely euthanized as the injury was too severe to allow for flight.
Waterbird compound
This Canada Goose came to us with a closed leg fracture (broken leg) and a neck abscess. Recovering from its injuries and managed medically, this goose was successfully released in early fall, just in time for migration.
Reptile indoor housing
This great basin gopher snake was found awake in the middle of winter inside a house. We have provided a quiet, temperature controlled space to overwinter and we released it in the spring of 2024.
Turtle outdoor housing
This female western painted turtle was hit by a car and severely injured several parts of its shell, bridge and one front leg has soft tissue damage. She was released at the end of summer in the same pond where she originated from.
Turtle indoor housing
A gravid (pregnant) western painted turtle came to us with shell and face injuries. She has layed her eggs in care and has been released after her injuries healed a few months later. She was named "Myrtle The Turtle".
Turtle incubator
This tiny western painted turtle has hatched from "Myrtle The Turtle's" eggs in our incubator after 59 days. Named "Donnatello", it will overwinter with us prior to release until strong and mature enough for release.
Duck therapy pool
This mallard duck swallowed a fish hook and came for post-operative care to us from Vernon. Her incision healed incredibly fast and she was released 10 days later and wasted no time in swimming off.
Gosling conditioning pool
A group of formerly displaced goslings who's parents had died, is growing up together and has moved into our large conditioning pool for geese end of May. They were released at the end of summer.
Waterfowl brooder box
This group of merganser ducklings arrived in June. They started under a supplemental heat lamp and on a strictly insectivore and piscivore diet. Released once their flight feathers grew, they've stayed with us for 94 days.
Featured patients 2023
Small mammal outdoor pen
These orphaned skunks arrived in June. They were raised at IWRS and released in September 2023
Gosling starter pool
These orphaned goslings arrived in May were raised over the summer at IWRS and subsequently released in August 2023
Semi-aquatic mammal pen
This beaver patient was released in July 2023
Incubator
This orphaned pine squirrel from our incubator graduated to an outdoor pen and was released in October 2023
Duckling starter pool
These orphaned ducklings arrived in May & June. They were raised over the summer at IWRS and released again in August 2023
Indoor isolation room
This silver-haired bat was treated for a wing fracture in the summer and released in September 2023
How to Donate
IWRS is 100% volunteer-run. We are funded solely by private donations and sponsorships. As as registered charity, we can provide tax receipts for your donation!
Donate online
E-transfer us directly: donate@interiorwildlife.ca
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Office address: PO Box 988 V0H1Z0, Summerland, BC, Canada
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