Wildlife Response: Guidelines for Exercise Development
Wildlife Response: Guidelines for Exercise Development
Oiled wildlife response featured in Baltic Sea exercise: BALEX DELTA
BALEX DELTA is the largest annual transnational oil spill response exercise in the Baltic Sea region. This year, the exercise was held in Kotka, Finland from the 23rd-25th of August and led by the Finnish Border Guard. The exercise included…
Tabletop exercise ‘Alicia’ takes Eurowa network members through the steps of a response
On 2 December 2020, representatives from the 8 different EUROWA Network members, along with 4 technical experts, gathered online to carry out a EUROWA Tabletop exercise coordinated by Sea Alarm in its role as EUROWA Secretariat. The main objective of…
The EUROWA team meets again
The EUROWA project partners met at RSPCA Mallydams Wood in October 2017 for the first in-person meeting since the end of the EU-funded aspect of the project. EUROWA is in the process of transitioning from a philosophy developed as part…
Oiled wildlife response exercise in the Wadden Sea
Elements from the EUROWA Basic Responder Course have been used in a large scale exercise organized in the Dutch Wadden Sea, which took place in early September 2017. Claude Velter of the Wildlife Rescue Centre Ostend led the wildlife component…
The EUROWA Project comes to a close
The EUROWA Project Team gathered for their last Team Event to showcase SPECIALIST training and exercise modules, and to evaluate and close the EU-funded project. The event took place from December 12-16 at the RSPCA’s Wildlife Hospital in Mallydams Wood,…
Exercise and evaluation improves management of specialist response equipment
EUROWA partners met in Hamburg for a second equipment inspection and evaluation exercise aimed at refining and maintaining the stockpile of specialised oiled wildlife response supplies in readiness. ProBird, one of the EUROWA partners, kindly provided local support for the…
EUROWA autumn team event
Wrapping up year one of the EUROWA project, the last 2015 meeting in Ostend was a team event involving all members of the project team. This event, hosted by the Wildlife Rescue Centre Ostend, concentrated on the group working together…