Rancho Raccoon - Projects

Our Projects

Rancho Raccoon began in Spring 2007, as a project of Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue. The project provides
Yggdrasil with resources to enable the best quality foster care experience for Yggdrasil raccoons and to educate children and adults about our common wildlife neighbors with the goal of improving human stewardship of wildlife and consequently, the environment we share.

We believe that learning and teaching compassion and appreciation for wildlife and respect for our shared earth is among the most valuable gifts we can give ourselves and our communities. If we show people the fascinating secret lives of local wildlife, animals they see often in their backyards and streets, and start to eliminate the fear we’ve been taught to feel for wild things, we begin to heal the disassociation with nature that is disastrously harmful to all living beings.

In Rancho Raccoon's first season we:

- Cared for 21 raccoons;

- Recruited and trained volunteers to care for animals and provide other support;

- Built 2 new rehabilitation pens and refurbished 2 additional;

- Raised donation funds to cover most monetary costs;

- Raised donations of food, medical items, veterinary care, lumber, hardware;

- Produced the first in a series of educational slideshows on living in peace with neighborhood wildlife, and presented it to the Marin Garden Society; and

- Created our website.

Volunteers Jennifer Corti and Shelley Ladd at
wildlife rehabilitation conference

AppleMark
Megan Isadore, Raccoon Team Leader, staffs
Yggdrasil's Wildlife Hotline.

Plans for 2008 include:

- Recruit and train new foster care volunteers;

- Build new rehabilitation pens;

- Produce and present educational programs;

- Begin work on a humane pest control business to serve Alameda County; and

- Staff Yggdrasil’s wildlife hotline.