Over the past 12 months, the Wildlife Investigations Laboratory has been asking the public for their assistance in reporting wildlife mortality events. WIL recognizes that mortality reports are an important tool in monitoring the health of the State’s wildlife. Wildlife mortality reports can:
- help us better understand these phenomena;
- lead to more effective prevention and control;
- potentially detect emerging diseases affecting fish and wildlife; and
- recognize problems that could affect human and domestic animal health.
WIL received 30 mortality reports submitted by the public from July 2012 – June 2013. These reports documented mortalities in 21 different species and have been added to a permanent record so that we may potentially be able to detect phenomena such as seasonal mortality trends or weather mortality events in the future.
Mortality Reports: July 2012 – June 2013
Public reporting makes a valuable contribution to the information we are trying to collect and is an important source for disease outbreak monitoring and emerging health threats. Please help us monitor the fish and wildlife populations in California.
For more information on wildlife mortality reporting, please follow the links below.
California wildlife mortality reports:
California roadkill tracking:
Wildlife heath information: