►Distemper epidemic hitting York this spring, yorkregion.com, April 19, 2012

Ms Karvonen said Vaughan is the only municipality in the GTA that does not provide some level of wildlife response and she will be addressing the problem with councillors later this month.

►Wild Toronto: column two Inside Toronto, April 16, 2012

Right now, Toronto's animals are jostling for space in a wild singles bar. 

►Baby owl finds its way back to the nest with a little help, Toronto Star, April 12, 2012

Baby owl rescue, The Globe and Mail, April 12, 2012

Great horned owlet is reunited with its family.
 

►Opossums spreading across the GTA Toronto Star, March 12, 2012

William Krause, a University of Missouri anatomy professor. . .called them one of the most misunderstood, and underrated, creatures on the continent. 

“People are a bit more tolerant today but the prejudices are still there. They really aren’t the fearsome animal they’re assumed to be. They’re gentle,” Krause said. “It breaks my heart . . . people are still frightened of them. It’s sad to say that if it looks like a rat, you want to kill it.”
 

►Wild Toronto: column one  Inside Toronto, March 12th, 2012

Wild animals may be weird, but they're in good company, and they have to live with us, too.
TWC's new column will re-introduce the noisy neighbours you see every day, and introduce you to the ones you didn't even know you had. Just don't leave your garbage out on the lawn. 
 

►What does the future hold for Downsview Park Open File January 3rd, 2011

"TWC director Nathalie Karvonen says the uncertainty is too great. "One year isn't enough time to move and create a hospital. Ideally it would be three to five years," she said, and listed all there was to do. "Finding a location, designing a new structure or a big renovation, because we're never going to find an empty wildlife centre sitting anywhere. Raising the money, carrying out the project, doing all the work of moving.""
 

►Downsview Park's Critter Controversy The Grid, December 14th, 2011 

"Local councillor Maria Augimeri is suspicious. She said she's been "fighting with Downsview for almost 17 years," and the corporation's track record in dealing with tenants is getting worse...Amid the uncertainiy, TWC is [still] hunting for a new home."  
 

►Toronto Wildlife Centre fears for future at Downsview Toronto Star, December 12th, 2011

"Toronto Wildlife Centre is concerned for its continued future at Downsview Park, despite assurances from the landlord that the animal refuge is in no danger of eviction."

►GTA Wildlife hospital endangered Toronto Sun, December 12, 2011

"This news was such a shock," the centre's executive director Nathalie Karvonen said. "we have no extra funds tohandle and emergency of this size...If we close down, even for a short time, there is no other wildlife centre in the Greater Toronto Area to help the tens of thousands of people who call our hotline, and the 5, 000 wild animals that we care for each year."
 

►Toronto Wildlife Centre set to be demolished Global Toronto, Demember 12, 2011

"Toronto Wildlife Centre--the only of its kind in Toronto--is set preparing for emergency after being told by its landlird its buildling is scheduled to be demolished."
 

►Toronto charity animal hospital set to be demolished CTV News , December 12, 2011

The charity says its most urgent need is to find a new location. It says it needs up to 20,000 square feet of indoor space and 15 to 20 acres of land.

►Happy ending for injured swan The Toronto Star, June 25th, 2011

"Wight, in an interview Saturday while en route to rescue a seagull tangled in kite strings in a tree, says swans are frequently injured by fishing lures and are sometimes hit by cars. There are hundreds of animals from ducks to squirrels recuperating at the Downsview centre after citizens called for their rescue, he says."

► Downtown ducklings, gaggle of goslings helped by Toronto Wildlife Centre The Toronto Star, June 9th, 2011

“There’s an injured being and it deserves to be helped. And these animals are injured because of human impact,” he says. “You’re not going to change the world. But at least you’ve made an attempt to help.”

► Backyard brawl in Toronto wounds raccoon The Globe and Mail , June 1st, 2011

"According to the Toronto Wildlife Centre, southern Ontario is home to more than a million raccoons, so Mr. Dong is not the first Torontonian to run into trouble with the law on a raccoon-related matter."

► The Fixer: Turkey vulture is a tough bird to bag  The Toronto Star, January 7th, 2011

"We called the Toronto Wildlife Centre, which rescues and cares for injured wild animals, and arranged to meet one of its field officers to try to corral the vulture. Alex Rios, an expert at rescuing injured or distressed animals, arrived and tried to sneak up on it, while it perched on the fence of a home next to the park." 

► Wildlife taken from humane society The Toronto Star, December 1st, 2009, 2011

"Some of the wild animals brought from the THS are in bad shape, said Toronto Wildlife Centre executive director Nathalie Karvonen." read more

► Pop-up possums! Everything you need to know about Toronto's newest immigrants Eye Weekly, November 17th, 2010

"Last year, the Toronto Wildlife Centre admitted 73 injured possums to their hospital, according to executive director Nathalie Karvonen."

Waterloo couple rescue injured hawk, The Record, November 5th, 2010

“It’s not normal for a bird like that to be on a front lawn,” said Kuepfer. “I could tell it was in some distress.”

Wildlife Centre proposed for Meaford Simcoe.com September 29th, 2009

"The Toronto Wildlife Centre is proposing a new facility in the Municipality of Meaford on property just outside of town on Highway 26 to help rehabilitate sick and injured animals."

Felis catus and the cull of the wild The Globe and Mail, August 28th, 2009
Written by TWC staff member Erin Luther

"The impact of Canada's 5.5 million outdoor pet cats and our uncounted number of feral cats reaches far beyond our backyards, deep into the ecosystems that support human life. But our hostile reaction to coyotes preying on them betrays a double confusion of the categories into which we sort our animals."

Why our turtles are in trouble The Toronto Star, August 14th, 2009

"Tough to imagine driving over the monster [snapping turtle] without feeling like you hit a boulder – but it's possible, speculates Nathalie Karvonen, director of the Downsview centre, which takes in 30 to 60 turtles among the 5,000 animals that arrive there annually."

Toronto Wildlife Centre: Unsung urban hero of the week spacingtoronto, April 4th, 2008

The writer describes finding an injured pigeon and his positive experience with TWC.

Wildlife Centre sole resource for injured animals, Durhamregion.com, July 27th, 2007

"I am disgusted I can't believe that bird had to die," Ms. Eyre's said. "Someone should have come out immediately."

Nathalie Karvonen, executive director of the TWC, agrees it was a terrible situation for the bird to be in.

"We were actually quite upset that this animal was in this situation for so long," Ms. Karvonen said. "It was a terrible situation for the bird. It's absolutely not something that we would consider acceptable." She said the centre did all it could to try to arrange to pick up the bird."