Wildlife Incident Reporting (WIR)

The WIR System assigns a designated “Investigator” based on the geographic location of the wildlife incident reported. The Investigator may be a Department Biologist or Wildlife Officer (warden) and will receive general notification by email of an assigned WIR incident. Department staff strive to respond to all WIRs in a timely manner.

The WIR System enables a public user, referred to as the reporting party (RP), to do the following:

  • Incident Reporting:
    • Report an observation involving species of interest to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
    • Report nuisance activity and/or property damage involving wildlife (depredation).
    • Property damage reports may result in the issuance of a depredation permit, pending investigation to confirm damages if requested by the RP, for species requiring a depredation permit by California Codes and Regulations. A depredation permit allows a permit holder to take the animal believed to cause the property damage.
    • Receive via email, download, and print depredation permits issued by Department staff.
  • Take Entry:
    • Report carcass information online for animals taken/killed by depredation permit as required by conditions of the permit.
    • Report take pursuant to a depredation permit using the WIR System.
      • Depredation permits for wild pigs require monthly reporting of take using the WIR System, even if zero animals were taken during that reporting period.
      • Depredation permits for other designated species require take reporting using the WIR System at the time an animal was taken, or when the depredation permit expires if zero animals were taken.

Report a wildlife incident

CDFW users login here.

NOTE: WIR app was developed using Google Chrome. It will work with other browsers, but may be more prone to glitch.