{"id":455335,"date":"2026-09-06T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455335\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:11:05","slug":"wildlife-more-mild-than-wild-at-tiburon-event-marin-independent-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455335\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife more mild than wild at Tiburon event \u2013 Marin Independent Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hazel Gough, 3, of San Rafael, pets Rosie, a rosy...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MIJ-L-WILDLIFE-0906-02_266340085.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hazel Gough, 3, of San Rafael, pets Rosie, a rosy boa being held by WildCare volunteer ambassador Eileen Munroe during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animals included Rosie, Virginia opossum Winky and Sequoia, a northern spotted owl. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wildlife Ambassador Program manager Rachel Anna Bean with WildCare holds...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MIJ-L-WILDLIFE-0906-04_266340109.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife Ambassador Program manager Rachel Anna Bean with WildCare holds Sequoia, a 21-year-old northern spotted owl while talking to the audience during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animal ambassadors included Sequoia, Virginia opossum Winky,  and Rosie, a rosy boa. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Remy Markman of Belvedere has a snack while she and...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MIJ-L-WILDLIFE-0906-05_266340111.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remy Markman of Belvedere has a snack while she and other listen to a speaker during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animals included Winky, Sequoia, a northern spotted owl and Rosie, a rosy boa. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hazel Gough, 3, of San Rafael, pets Rosie, a rosy...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MIJ-L-WILDLIFE-0906-07_266340459.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hazel Gough, 3, of San Rafael, pets Rosie, a rosy boa being held by WildCare volunteer ambassador Eileen Munroe during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animals included Rosie, Virginia opossum Winky and Sequoia, a northern spotted owl. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rosie, a rosy boa being held by WildCare volunteer ambassador...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MIJ-L-WILDLIFE-0906-06_266340107.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rosie, a rosy boa being held by WildCare volunteer ambassador Eileen Munroe is shown to the crowd during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animals included Rosie, Virginia opossum Winky and Sequoia, a northern spotted owl. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6-month-old Winky, a Virginia opossum ambassador with WildCare looks over...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MIJ-L-WILDLIFE-0906-01.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>6-month-old Winky, a Virginia opossum ambassador with WildCare looks over the crowd while snacking on a raspberry during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animals included Winky, Sequoia, a northern spotted owl and Rosie, a rosy boa. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>Hazel Gough, 3, of San Rafael, pets Rosie, a rosy boa being held by WildCare volunteer ambassador Eileen Munroe during a visit by WildCare for an interactive presentation about their Wildlife Ambassador Program at Paradise Beach Park in Tiburon, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. The WildCare presentation introduced three rescued, non-releasable wild animals to the crowd of children and adults. The trio of wild animals included Rosie, Virginia opossum Winky and Sequoia, a northern spotted owl. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet wildlife with Marin Parks and WildCare at Paradise Beach Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hazel Gough, 3, of San Rafael, pets Rosie, a rosy boa being held by WildCare volunteer ambassador Eileen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,23,992,180,993,266,101,103,102,104,106,105,31023],"class_list":["post-455335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-marin-county","tag-newsletter","tag-north-bay","tag-northern-california","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tiburon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}