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Syverud announces diversity and inclusion plan in winter message Daily Orange File Photo Facebook Google+ The Daily Orange is a nonprofit newsroom that receives no funding from Syracuse University. Consider donating today to support our mission. Syracuse University will implement a university-wide strategic plan for diversity and inclusion this semester, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced in his 2021 winter message. The plan will entail a review of current infrastructure, including former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s external review of the Department of Public Safety and other projects. The plan will address discrimination and accessibility for students and employees with disabilities, Syverud said. ....
Sandy Hausman reports The Wildlife Center of Virginia sees 30 to 40 injured eagles each year. Two-thirds have some degree of lead poisoning. Credit Wildlife Center of Virginia Buddy is an eagle who hatched in 2008 at the Norfolk Botanical Garden where a live camera captured his arrival for a worldwide audience. One month later he developed Avian Pox, a disease that deformed his beak and made survival in the wild impossible. Today, he’s a full-time resident of the Wildlife Center of Virginia – an ambassador for the treatment and rehabilitation of all wild birds and animals. Ed Clark, President and Co-founder of the center, says hundreds of eagles have been treated there, including one released with a transmitter in Stafford County. ....
Sandy Hausman reports As Virginia’s hospitals began treating COVID patients, the state’s best-known center for wildlife was nearly overwhelmed as injured animals were brought in for care. “It’s been a very active year – more admissions than we’ve seen, well, ever,” says Amanda Nicholson is the center’s outreach coordinator. “We are coming close to 3,700 animals admitted for the year, so lots of extra mouths to feed.” The problem, says the center’s director, is the weather – not cold enough to promote hibernation. “The warm winters we’ve been having, especially in a year like this where we have 22 black bears in here – when they’re not sleeping they’re eating, and they have put quite a dent in the grocery budget this year. In the early fall, when they were really building up their fat reserves for winter, our staff was preparing 200 pounds of food for the bears each and every day, seven days a week.” ....
Credit Wildlife Center of Virginia As Virginia’s hospitals began treating COVID patients, the state’s best-known center for wildlife was nearly overwhelmed as injured animals were brought in for care. “It’s been a very active year – more admissions than we’ve seen, well, ever,” says Amanda Nicholson is the center’s outreach coordinator. “We are coming close to 37-hundred animals admitted for the year, so lots of extra mouths to feed.” The problem, says the center’s director, is the weather – not cold enough to promote hibernation. “The warm winters we’ve been having, especially in a year like this where we have 22 black bears in here – when they’re not sleeping they’re eating, and they have put quite a dent in the grocery budget this year. In the early fall, when they were really building up their fat reserves for winter, our staff was preparing 200 pounds of food for the bears each and every day, seven days a week.” ....