Wilderz at Pocono Wildlife must upgrade, feds say [Video]

MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — It’s a busy time of year at the Wilderz at Pocono Wildlife near Stroudsburg. Volunteers are bottle-feeding baby rabbits and raccoons while also handling emergency calls.

But recently, while updating permits through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, co-executive director Janine Tancredi says the center received new regulations about living arrangements for their nine educational ambassador birds.

“When we went to get the permitting changed, they told us that some of our enclosures for the ambassadors were not up to minimum standards,” Tancredi said. “We have 45 days to establish new caging for those birds.”

Staff members say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved the size of the enclosures years ago. Now, the clock is ticking to move the birds into a new enclosure.

Workers are already expanding some …