Over the past four years, hundreds of European responders have opted to attend EUROWA training courses and obtain recognised qualifications in order to be better prepared to provide assistance during an oiled wildlife incident. The portfolio of EUROWA training courses…
Spanish oiled wildlife response stakeholders came together on 3 and 4 March 2020 in Madrid at the headquarters of the Fundación Biodiversidad for an oiled wildlife workshop focused on improving processes for oiled wildlife response at the regional and national…
In September, Sea Alarm, in cooperation with WWF Poland, presented a National Workshop on Oiled Wildlife Response Planning in Poland, followed by a EUROWA Basic Response training. The one day workshop was attended by 32 representatives from Poland’s national authorities,…
In June 2019, EURopean Oiled Wildlife Assistance (EUROWA) Network members, and interested potential members, met in Ostende to strengthen their cooperation and define the decision-making structure which will support EUROWA’s function in European oil spill response and preparedness. In conjunction…
In April 2019, sixteen veterinarians from seven European nations attended a course in Ostend, Belgium to earn the Veterinary Specialist Qualification under the EURopean Oiled Wildlife Assistance (EUROWA) network. The course, given to veterinarians affiliated with EUROWA member organisations, was…
Recently Belgian authorities approached Sea Alarm with the offer to help to house the EUROWA equipment stockpile. That equipment has now been moved to a warehouse in Ostend. The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain safety and Environment has been following…
A new oiled wildlife preparedness project, which builds on the previously EU-funded European Oiled Wildlife Response Assistance (EUROWA) training and preparedness programme, is underway. Funding from Aramco’s Citizenship Programme will enable an effective roll-out of this new EUROWA project, which…
In March of 2018, PRO Bird presented a EUROWA Basic training session to two German partner organisations, continuing EUROWA’s work of improving response to oiled wildlife in Europe. Fifteen staff and volunteers from Wildtierstation (Wildlife Rescue Centre) Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein …
Within hours of the of the chemical tanker Bow Jubail incident in Rotterdam Harbour in the Netherlands, hundreds of mute swans moulting in the harbour area were oiled. Bow Jubail’s fuel tanks ruptured in the early afternoon of the 23rd…
EUROWA partners Wildlife Rescue Centre Ostend (WRCO)/ Belgium and PRO Bird e.V. / Germany delivered a four-day ADVANCED Oiled Wildlife Responder training course in Foynes, Ireland in October 2018.The event was hosted by the Irish Oiled Wildlife Response Network (OWRN)…