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 …
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)…
At the 2018 conference of the RSPCA Wildlife Officer Team, held in March at Mallydams in East Sussex, England, the eighteen officers in attendance were trained in EUROWA ADVANCED Responder Search and Collection procedures. Geoff Edmond, the RSPCA National Wildlife…
On the weekend of 17/18 November 2018, SON-Respons, the new umbrella organisation for oiled wildlife response preparedness in the Netherlands, facilitated two EUROWA BASIC Responder training courses. As part of a 5-year oiled wildlife preparedness programme (2017-2022) coordinated by Sea…
A pilot project to begin integration of wildlife rescue into oil spill response in Arctic Russia included a two-day EUROWA Basic Responder Course, which took place in Russia in August 2017. The course, originally developed under the POSOW project, and…
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…
Key Principles for the protection, care and rehabilitation of wildlife
