We Save Wildlife - Hardcover

Stocker MBE, Les

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0905483464 ISBN 13: 9780905483467

Publisher: Whittet Books Ltd, 1986

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From the Author

This book has the heart-rending stories of some of the first wild animals taken in and treated in the early days of the World Famous St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital.

In those early days the concept of looking after wild animals was seen as bizarre, but the odd couple on the corner of the street in Aylesbury defied the odds and made "the care of wildlife" the household name it is today.

That great naturalist, Bill Oddie, has written the foreword to this book and commented,

"Its all in this book.
Read it and you’ll learn a lot, laugh quite a bit, and, I’m pretty sure, cry a little too".

The Wildlife Hospitals Trust (now St Tiggywinkles) in Aylesbury is unique: the Stockers, in their small house with typical suburban garden, take in all kinds of injured and sick wildlife, from puffins to hedgehogs. They take infinite pains to cure their patients and, as the book shows, have a high success rate. Whenever possible they release the recuperated bird or mammal back to the wild. We Save Wildlife recount the amazing stories of just some of their visitors. Amongst them, Purdie the kestrel has raised two broods of chicks now at the hospital; several badgers could not be saved, but others – like Brock and Bridget – were returned to the wild; Vix, the defiant vixen, was allowed to escape, but voluntarily returned to her saviours; Bambi the fallow deer was revived from the brink of death; many hedgehogs have taken advantage of the accommodation at St Tiggywinkle’s special hedgehog unit; recently barn owls have been released to live and breed in London.

Les and Sue Stocker have, since 1978, devoted their home to the rescue of wild animals and what they achieve in such confined space is incredible – in 1985 they took in 4,000 casualties. We Save Wildlife shows the immense trouble they take to save any creature, even a humble London pigeon, and return it to its natural life. Les spends hours watching injured animals, building special quarters for them, constructing setts for badgers to return to the wild and, in the case of a swan rescue, persuading the local council to lend its depot for washing the oil off the bird’s plumage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whittet Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0905483464
• ISBN 13: 9780905483467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128