spectr17
03-02-2003, 06:52 PM
Adobe Open House Cancelled: Donations for Injured Wildlife still Needed
AGFD
2/24/03
PHOENIX - The annual open house may have been cancelled for the Arizona Game and Fish Department's Wildlife Center at Adobe Mountain, but you can still make donations to help injured wildlife.
Every year the wildlife center provides care and treatment for more than 4,000 injured and orphaned wildlife. To do its job, the center needs donations of money, bedding and sheets, new garden hoses, kennels, laundry detergent, bleach, bath towels, paper towels and baby food with meat (veal, beef, chicken and turkey).
All donations are tax deductible. Anyone interested in helping support the center through donations or by purchasing a T-shirt is invited to call (623) 582-9806 or to contact the Wildlife Center at: 2221 W. Greenway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85023.
The popular annual event was cancelled because of concerns about a virus that affects wildlife might be carried into the rehabilitation center on the shoes or clothing of visitors. The virus, Exotic Newcastle Disease, is not dangerous to humans but is usually fatal in birds.
"Although the risk is not high, we decided to cancel the open house to safeguard the many birds housed at the wildlife center," says Game and Fish Department researcher Jim deVos.
Exotic Newcastle Disease was confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in western Arizona Feb. 4. Since that time, the state veterinarian placed under quarantine three Arizona counties - La Paz, Mojave and Yuma - to prevent the importation or exportation of poultry.
The disease is caused by a virus and affects many species of birds, from poultry to wild birds. It can be transmitted from bird to bird through infected bird droppings and other bodily secretions.
AGFD
2/24/03
PHOENIX - The annual open house may have been cancelled for the Arizona Game and Fish Department's Wildlife Center at Adobe Mountain, but you can still make donations to help injured wildlife.
Every year the wildlife center provides care and treatment for more than 4,000 injured and orphaned wildlife. To do its job, the center needs donations of money, bedding and sheets, new garden hoses, kennels, laundry detergent, bleach, bath towels, paper towels and baby food with meat (veal, beef, chicken and turkey).
All donations are tax deductible. Anyone interested in helping support the center through donations or by purchasing a T-shirt is invited to call (623) 582-9806 or to contact the Wildlife Center at: 2221 W. Greenway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85023.
The popular annual event was cancelled because of concerns about a virus that affects wildlife might be carried into the rehabilitation center on the shoes or clothing of visitors. The virus, Exotic Newcastle Disease, is not dangerous to humans but is usually fatal in birds.
"Although the risk is not high, we decided to cancel the open house to safeguard the many birds housed at the wildlife center," says Game and Fish Department researcher Jim deVos.
Exotic Newcastle Disease was confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in western Arizona Feb. 4. Since that time, the state veterinarian placed under quarantine three Arizona counties - La Paz, Mojave and Yuma - to prevent the importation or exportation of poultry.
The disease is caused by a virus and affects many species of birds, from poultry to wild birds. It can be transmitted from bird to bird through infected bird droppings and other bodily secretions.