- Standardized admission and disposition (outcome) information is collected on each patient from participating wildlife rehabilitation facilities throughout North America. Global coverage is expanding and new organizations join every month.
- Participating facilities range from home-based rehabilitators to professional wildlife rehabilitation centers.
- Selected fields are queried and combined from each participating organization to make the largest North American wildlife rehabilitation dataset ever created!
- WILD-ONe includes data fields needed to complete annual permits in every U.S. state and Canadian province.
- Efforts to include historic datasets are underway.
- WILD-ONe uses adopted international data standards allowing for data sharing and collaboration.
- Required fields are formatted in drop-down menus with auto-text features for quick and consistent data entry and reporting.
- Required fields include:
- Dates of admission and disposition
- Circumstances of rescue (including relevant details) and degree of certainty
- Location of rescue and release (GIS coordinates, address, jurisdiction, state/province, country)
- Unique case number
- Species
- Gender
- Life Stage
- Type and anatomical location of injury or problem
- Final Disposition
- The combined WILD-ONe dataset is validated every 3 months to ensure accurate and reliable information.
- The dataset is validated in multiple formats (+/- certain fields) to best meet the needs of a variety of research projects.
- We share the WILD-ONe dataset with colleagues conducting legitimate conservation research projects.
- To request use of WILD-ONe data (public information fields only) please send an e-mail to wild-one@wildlifecenter.org. Include a brief description of the project, any deadlines, and your contact information.
- Online incident database are expensive and timely to create from scratch.
- The WILD-ONe program can be reformatted to collect incident data for reasons other than wildlife rehabilitation. Academic, government, NGO’s, and other researchers may be interested in this comparatively inexpensive option.
