Barbara B. Picon is the founder of Squirrel Sanctuary Inc. based on Long Island, New York.

Her organization offers temporary rehabilitative care, rescue, and intervention to squirrels that are orphaned, ill, or injured, thus in need of specialized attention, with the objective of returning them to their natural environment with intact survival skills.

Squirrel Sanctuary Inc. is an all-volunteer home-based 501 (c) 3 tax exempt nonprofit organization. Squirrel Sanctuary devotes its efforts exclusively to the rehabilitation, protection, and preservation of indigenous tree, ground and flying squirrels. We are a volunteer collective of State licensed wildlife rehabilitators and rehab assistants.
Unprecedented as specialists in the metro NY area, we have focused on squirrels to directly address needs unmet by general care wildlife centers, where priority is often given to high profile avian and other species.