Since then, she has flourished there, and the rescue center’s founder, Jane Newhouse, jokes that Nibi is “spoiled rotten” and “a diva.”
“I love her, and … many people have fallen in love with Nibi,” Newhouse said in a video posted on Facebook this week.
Nibi’s future there is uncertain because MassWildlife, the state’s division of fisheries and wildlife, is arguing that Nibi, as a healthy animal, must be released back into the wild.
“Wild animals like this one belong in the wild,” MassWildlife said earlier in a statement cited by CBS News. “The role of licensed wildlife rehabilitators is to care for sick and injured wildlife so that animals can be released back into the wild as soon as possible … by their permit and state regulations.”
Newhouse has argued that the rescue center has tried — and failed — to prepare Nibi for life in the wild and that it would be dangerous to release her during the winter months.
“When Nibi was found … there were no other orphaned beavers in rehab in all of New England,” Newhouse said. The options were to leave her in a cage alone or to interact with her, she added, which the team opted to do.
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