The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education has appointed Sydney Gilsan as the new director of its Wildlife Clinic.
Gilsan trained in wildlife rehabilitation at Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center in Chalfont. For two years, she worked as an education zookeeper at Elmwood Park Zoo, where she cared for animals, delivered enrichment, worked in the birdhouse, and traveled to present educational programs with trained ambassador animals.
In 2021, Gilsan was hired at the Wildlife Clinic, where she has since cared for thousands of sick, injured, and abandoned wildlife. She …
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The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education has appointed Sydney Gilsan as the new director of its Wildlife Clinic.
Gilsan trained in wildlife rehabilitation at Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center in Chalfont. For two years, she worked as an education zookeeper at Elmwood Park Zoo, where she cared for animals, delivered enrichment, worked in the birdhouse, and traveled to present educational programs with trained ambassador animals.
In 2021, Gilsan was hired at the Wildlife Clinic, where she has since cared for thousands of sick, injured, and abandoned wildlife. She was promoted to assistant director in 2022, where she enhanced the standard of care at the clinic by creating care protocols for window strike patients, baby raptors, and more, the Upper Roxborough center said in a news release.
Gilsan holds a bachelor of science degree in biology from Temple University and is fully permitted through the Pennsylvania Game Commission as a wildlife rehabilitator, reptile and amphibian rehabilitator, wildlife capture and transport specialist, and a reptile and amphibian educator.
