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“I think we leave a huge footprint as humans,” said Ghadrdan. “I always cut my potato chip bags so they’re not like a little pocket and they can’t get their heads inside. “Animals put their heads in the bags and they can’t get them off and suffocate,” said Ghadrdan. AWARE often gets wildlife stuck in packaging, from six-pack plastic that keeps cans together to potato chip bags. Some estimates show domestic cats in North America kill from 10 to 30 billion wildlife animals per year. “As much as we love them, they are hurting the wildlife,” said Ghadrdan. They eat rats and mice and are voracious hunters of birds, squirrels and chipmunks. “We have had hawks and owls and all sorts of other animals come in that have been poisoned because they eat a rat that has been poisoned.” Lange urges people not to use pesticides on their lawn or leave out rat poison. Rat poison and pesticides are another huge problem for the entire wildlife food chain, said Lange. One of many foxes that AWARE Wildlife Center has rescued and rehabilitated through the years. It’s the most common cause of injury for animals coming under the care of AWARE.īut there’s something you can do about it. Many animals are killed by vehicles alone every year, according to the US Department of Transportation, including slow-moving animals like turtles who try to cross a road to reach mating or nesting sites on the other side. You’re trying to complete tasks around the level, root out any villainous ducks after your flock, and survive until the end of the round. Millions of wild animals are killed or injured every year in the US due to human causes – from traffic, to habitat destruction, to poisonings. That was 15 years ago and since then, Matthews said, they’ve rescued “probably three or four geese, a duck, several turtles and the occasional possum or two – bringing them to AWARE for help.ĭo these little things to prevent animal injuries

“When we saw it fly back to its flock and we knew that we helped it carry on its life – it was just a moment of gratitude that we were able to do something.” The staff operated on the goose and Matthews brought it home the same day. The goose was operated on by the nonprofit AWARE after it became entangled in fishing line. Neal Matthews releases a goose behind his Tucker, Georgia, home.