Wildlife Research Team

Wildlife Research Team Founded in 1993 by Dr. Tom Kazo and Donna McVicar Kazo. Our mission: environmental education through habitat restoration and conservation.

Twenty-seven years ago, Wildlife Research Team was only a dream of a man named Tom Kazo, confined to a nursing home. Dreams are powerful medicine. With the love of his best friend Donna, he survived that nightmare. In 1993, he bought a hurricane-battered canoe for $20. He named it "Do-er," restored it, painted its hull black, had Donna letter Wildlife Research Team on its sides, and began paddling

every possible watery area in South Florida! Ten years after founding WRT, Dr. Tom was chosen by NOAA as an Environmental Hero of the Year, for his unique vision that healed the hurricane-devastated mangrove habitat of Matheson Hammock/R. Hardy Matheson Preserve. Since his tragic passing in 2006, his widow Donna Kazo has continued on with our mission, leading hundreds of canoe cleanups around South Florida. To learn more, please visit our website, wildlife-research-team.org

08/26/2026

Today, we remember Dolly Parton. Not only for the music she shared with the world, but for the compassion she showed beyond the stage. 🦅

For decades, Dolly supported the American Eagle Foundation and its work to protect bald eagles and other birds of prey. Their partnership helped support the care of non-releasable eagles, wildlife rehabilitation, conservation education, and bald eagle recovery efforts. In 2003, Dolly was recognized by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service with a Partnership Award for her support of bald eagle conservation.

Her kindness toward wildlife is one more part of a remarkable legacy that will continue to be remembered alongside the music she gave the world.

Our thoughts are with her family, friends, and the millions of people whose lives she touched. 🤍

Photo by Lorenzo Cassina

08/11/2026

A turkey vulture can't hurt a single living thing. Her talons are flat and dull, built for standing, not seizing. She doesn't hunt. She never has.

The spread wings dry her feathers and burn off bacteria in sunlight. The hiss is the only sound she owns because she has no voice box. The vomiting is panic, dumping weight to get light enough to lift off.

She eats what's already dead, and her gut neutralizes what would otherwise spread through the soil.

The most frightening-looking bird in the yard is the one cleaning up what nothing else will touch 🐾

05/22/2026

University of Florida researchers documented a surprising new threat to Burmese python eggs in the Everglades, adding to growing evidence that native wildlife is fighting back against the invasive species.

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