This book is primarily an attempt at bringing into focus the relationship between the disciplines of conservation biology and wildlife rehabilitation (from here on “rehab”). It is both descriptive and prescriptive. The project that supports this work grew out of the author’s sense, gradually developed over time as a conservation biology student, that a story of relevance to conservation has not been and is not being sufficiently told in the North American animal conservation community. An attempt is made in this work to tell the most important pieces of this story, while acknowledging the necessary limitations of such an account. The view taken is largely of a conservationist less than satisfied with the current state of conservation and may be interpreted as a call to reform by more explicit inclusion of an ignored, and at times dismissed, set of practices. To make the foundational underpinnings of the view I take clearer from the outset, I have attempted to distill some of the basic beliefs I hold into 10 statements, which I provide below.