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Dawn Barbone, founder of Samadhi Wildlife

Duncan — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:10:03 +0000

Dawn Barbone–founder of Samadhi Wildlife, a nonprofit refuge in Ormond Beach that rehabilitates sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife native to Florida—explains that she hasn’t merely loved animals since she was a child, but has also loved healing them since then. It’s not uncommon in the animal welfare world to encounter someone who was that kid […]

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Kelly Crandall, graduate student whose research yielded inadvertent, important results

Duncan — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 05:00:11 +0000

Kelly Crandall is a graduate student at Southern Illinois University (SIU) whose research focusing on one raccoons and opossums inadvertently yielded results about the Burmese python, a rampant invasive species in south Florida.

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Jack Murphy, co-founder and director of Urban Wildlife Rescue, Inc.

Duncan — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:00:51 +0000

Jack Murphy–co-founder and director of Urban Wildlife Rescue, Inc., a Colorado-based non-profit organization that specializes in resolving wildlife conflicts using innovative methods of eviction and exclusion without having to trap, kill or harm any animal in any way–explains more specifically what “urban wildlife rescue” means, and how he and his wife ventured into this line of work […]

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