WRI e-newsletter
   
January 2021
 
 
 
  
NEWS - Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland
  
Watch This Space - A Hospital is Born!!!...
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The emergency interim Wildlife Hospital IS HAPPENING!     

We have rented a site near Navan with on-site apartment, 18 stables, a barn and services, and our small army of superb enthusiastic volunteers have been hard at it for the last 2 weeks converting the stables into wildlife care units.
 
We are looking for a large porta-cabin to install in the barn as the Hospital wards and surgery [in case any of our readers could provide one?], and as many tradespeople as possible to get this Hospital ready for the Spring orphan season.

Separately, our Wildlife Hospital and Visitor Centre project plans continue, but it was imperative we responded immediately to the current huge increase in wildlife casualties.
 
Stay tuned for further updates on this very exciting project!
 
  
Animal Handler Internships
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WRI is now delighted to be able to accept applications for Animal Handler interns in our new emergency interim Wildlife Hospital.
 
This high paced, full-time position is for a minimum of 3 months.

This internship is an unpaid position.
The successful candidates will be provided with accommodation for a minimal rent fee of 80 euro per week, excluding food.
 
More details can be found on our Facebook page or contact us on office@wri.ie
 
  
Volunteer Tradespeople

Building this Wildlife Hospital requires a small army of people and we are looking for volunteers of all trades particularly roofers, carpenters, plumbers, and a heating engineer.
 
Qualifications aren't required - if you, or someone you know is generally "handy" and can donate some time to the project please contact us on office@wri.ie
 
  
NEWS - GENERAL
 
  
Think Reusable When Buying Masks
 
Low, Forest, Rainforest, Environment
 
Sadly, discarded face masks are not only adding to litter and pollution in parks, rivers and seas – they’re also injuring and killing wildlife. A swan had to be rescued in Dublin recently after getting tangled in a disposable face mask.

Over the past year there has been an alarming increase in the number of seabirds and wildlife found tangled up in carelessly discarded single-use face masks.
Find out what you can do to help, read more..
 
  
NATURE STORIES
 
  
Wild Loop Head
 
Low, Forest, Rainforest, Environment
 @ Carsten Krieger Photography
 
For all those people stuck in their 5km radius Ireland's Nature Stories brings some virtual bird watching at the Shannon Estuary to your screen.
 
Querrin is a small village on the County Clare side of the Shannon Estuary. On first view Querrin isn’t much more than a bit of mud, sand and saltmarsh but the longer and the closer you look the more beauty you will discover.
 
  
FUNDING APPEAL
 
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Wildlife casualty numbers have doubled during Covid. It is a human AND a wildlife emergency.
 
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