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Halley D Buckanoff, BS, CVT, CWR
Halley graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology. She is also a Certified Veterinary Technician with 10+ years of emergency, exotic, zoo and wildlife medicine and husbandry experience. She has completed graduate level course work in animal population management and animal nutrition. Previously, she worked as field biologist mist-netting, trapping, banding, tracking and radio-collaring birds; currently she holds a USFW banding permit and is conducting post-release survival studies on common rehabilitated backyard birds in conjunction with Guilford College. |
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She is also the Association of Zoo and Aquarium’s North American Regional Studbook Keeper for the Perodicticus potto (a small African monkey) having devised and published protocols leading to the first successful hand-rearing of a captive infant. Halley is one of the first hundred people to pass the International Wildlife Rehabilitators’ Council’s Certified Wildlife Rehabilitators’ exam. Halley is currently employed at the North Carolina Zoo at the helm of the Valerie H Schindler Wildlife Rehabilitation Center overseeing rehabilitation practices, center operations, and mentoring of more than 150 volunteers and interns.
Halley believes that the wildlife rehabilitation community are entrusted professionals and as such stewards for wildlife and wild places, relied upon to stay up-to-date on practices and provide conservation education. |
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Carla Johnson
Carla has been rehabbing for over 20 years, is on the board of WRNC and Wildlife Rehab, Inc., her local rehab group. She has coordinated wildlife rehabilitation classes through the local community college in Winston-Salem, NC and presented countless environmental education programs to the surrounding community. Carla is responsible for maintaining WRNC's membership records, is on the symposium committee and helped put together and teach the refresher course for WRNC. She is currently the treasurer for WRNC.
In her spare time, she rescues dogs from puppy mills and natural disaster situations, is the NC/SC and VA coordinator for Chihuahua Rescue and Transport, a national 501(c)3 organization and enjoys working to place unwanted Chinese Crested dogs. |
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Kathy Lillard
Kathy Lillard lives in Charlotte with her husband, 2 cats, and a dog. She works part time at Wildbirds Unlimited and enjoys working in her yard, watching hockey, and being outdoors in general. Kathy has been a member of WRNC since it was formed, and has been helping behind the scenes for several years, especially during the Symposiums and Raffles. She is also a member of NWRA and IWRC.
“I have always loved animals and living in the country I rehabbed animals before I knew what rehabbing was. Now I am an independent rehabber and have been rehabbing for 11 years. Mainly I do small mammals (but not bunnies - I scare them to death.) I work with the neo-nates as I have time to do them.” |
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Dr. Leslie Martin
Dr. Leslie Martin received her DVM from the University of California at Davis. Following graduation, Dr. Martin worked in exotics and small animal practices. She gained experience working with wild and exotic companion bird, mammal and reptile patients. Recently, she completed a residency in laboratory animal medicine at UNC Chapel Hill. This program has an emphasis on rodents and other small mammals. Dr. Martin has been the staff veterinarian at Triangle Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic in Durham, NC since its opening in August. She enjoys working with the turtle, songbird, raptor, amphibian and mammal patients at the clinic. Dr. Martin especially enjoys working with the wildlife community, including the home rehabilitators, the Turtle Rescue Team, veterinary students and undergrads, the Carolina Raptor Center, and all the volunteers at Triangle Wildlife. |
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Toni O'Neil
Toni holds a B.S. in Zoology with a minor in Wildlife Management from the University of Maryland . She has been rehabilitating since 1991and holds both state and federal permits, specializing in songbirds and waterfowl. Toni has held administrative positions with ARC and has taught classes for CRC, ARC, and Carolina Wild Care, as well as teaching the Basic and Advanced Wildlife Rehabilitation courses through the local community college. She gives many presentations to schools, scout troops, and civic groups in her community. Toni believes in a strong state-wide networking system to assist rehabilitators at all levels, and encourages them to participate and become involved in reaching out to others. She believes that communication between rehabilitators is vital to further education, share ideas, and keep up-to-date on the changes in wildlife medicine. Currently, she is the Director of Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary in Hubert, NC, and enjoys working closely with the coastal residents of Onslow County.
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Savannah Trantham
Savannah Trantham grew up on a small family farm right outside of Asheville, in Candler. She started volunteering at the Western North Carolina Nature Center while in high school, which led into the Wildlife Rehabilitation internship. She received a degree in Biology with a concentration in Wildlife Rehabilitation from Lees McRae College and volunteered at the Blue Ridge Wildlife Institute. She came back to Asheville to open and run a small rehabilitation facility at the WNC Nature Center. In December of 2007 Savannah traveled with a group of students to New Zealand for a month to study rehabilitation there and worked at several facilities with several different home based rehabilitators. In May of 2008 she came back to Asheville to work as an Animal Naturalist at the WNC Nature Center full time and continue to be an advocate for rehabilitation here in Western North Carolina and the surrounding areas. For the past three years she has organized, ran, and taught several parts of the wildlife rehabilitation class offered at the Nature Center each spring. Currently she is the head reptile and small mammal keeper at the WNC Nature Center as well as the primary wildlife rehabilitation contact and coordinator for the center. |
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Savannah continues to take in animals and works with the community closely through wildlife education and the best ways to co-exist pleasantly.
Savannah also takes in exotic and domestic animals that are abandoned, mistreated, etc. and re-homes them in permanent situations. The majority of the rescues that she works with are waterfowl and reptiles with the occasional exotic mammal such as Sugar Gliders. Her favorite animals to work with are Opossums and Flying Squirrels. |
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