WRI e-newsletter
   
September 2020
 
 
 
  
NEWS - Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland
  
Wildlife Crime and Conservation Conference 2020
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Only 24 days to go until this year’s Wildlife Crime and Conservation Conference.
We are delighted to announce that Minister Darragh O'Brien will be giving the opening address.
 
As an online event you can sign up and watch the presentations from your own home.
 
Day 1 (24th October) will focus on wildlife crime and our speakers will explain how our wildlife is protected in law, how it is enforced and you can contribute to discussions on how we can all help to reduce wildlife crime.
 
Day 2 (25th October) will be about mitigation for wildlife protection and will focus on the various dangers our wildlife face every day from our activities, and what is being done to reduce these dangers.
Programme and more information HERE
 
  
WRI Back at University College Dublin (UCD)

WRI was back in UCD teaching 4th year veterinary nurse students practical sessions on wild animal casualty admissions, which can be different from your usual 'tame' domestic pet.

Topics included handling techniques, physical examination, injections and tube feeding.
UCD did a great job implementing safety precautions for Covid 19 so WRI Instructors and students both had a safe, productive and enjoyable day.
 
  
New Bat Hospital
 

WRI exists to support rehabilitators with their work helping wildlife. We were delighted to be able to help Bat Rehabilitation Ireland open a new purpose built bat hospital for the south of Ireland.
Already this year 100 bats from all over Ireland have been admitted and treated and 65 of those have been successfully released back into the wild.
In addition the team has responded to almost 300 calls offering advice and reassurance to members of the public, veterinary clinics, rehabilitators, and rescue centres.
For more information on the bat hospital and the work of Bat Rehabilitation Ireland visit their Facebook page
 
  
Mobile Home Wanted
 

Do you have a mobile home you'd like to donate to WRI?
      
We're still looking for a Mobile Home, 10ft wide, in very good condition please, for accomodation for volunteers. It'll be located in North Co Dublin.
If you can help, we'd love to hear from you so drop us an email at office@wri.ie
 
  
 WILDLIFE CRIME
Convicting people of wildlife crimes is extremely difficult and time consuming, so each month we're going to draw your attention to interesting cases (both old and new).
Continuing our tales of Past Prosecutions - this month we go back only a few months to July 2020
  
Wildlife Crime Prosecution: NPWS
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@ www.akellyphoto.com
 

Illegal shooting of a protected bird       
[2020] On 27th July 2020 Andrew Walsh, Croistoir Reville, and Adam Moore, all living in Co Wexford, were convicted in Wexford District Court of unlawful shooting of herring gulls in Ballyteige Co Wexford on 11 May 2019.
 
The incident was investigated by conservation ranger Tony Murray, and the three men were convicted by Judge Brian O’Shea under Section 22 (4) (i) of the Wildlife Acts 1976 and 2000.
They were fined €1,000 each and had their firearm certificates revoked and were banned from obtaining a firearm certificate for the next five years.
 
More Past Prosecutions Info - 'Case Details' tab on the 'Prosecutions' page of www.wildlifecrime.ie
 
  
NEWS - GENERAL
 
  
Vanishing Wildlife
 
Low, Forest, Rainforest, Environment
@ www.carstenkrieger.photography
 
The WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature, recently published their Living Planet Report 2020.  The sobering conclusion of the paper which saw contributions from more than 100 experts from around the world is that there has been a near 70% decline in wildlife population between 1970 and 2016 with many species on the verge of extinction. 
 
“The findings of this report, and the Covid-19 crisis have demonstrated quite how closely human and planetary health are linked. Now is the moment for our politicians to put their money where their mouth is, by earmarking half of the EU recovery fund for environment and climate action, and ensuring that not a penny will go to fossil fuels and other harmful sectors,” concluded Ester Asin, Director of WWF’s European Policy Office.
 
More details can be found here
 
  
Wildlife Books
 
  
Book Tip: The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson
 
Low, Forest, Rainforest, Environment
 
Seabirds make up one of the largest group of wild animals in Ireland.
Some mysteriously appear at our coast every spring and disappear again in late summer, others are misunderstood and seen as pests and vermin.
 
In this book British author Adam Nicolson gives a unique insight into the life of these animals.
 
Each bird or group of birds gets its own chapter: The much loved puffin, the guillemots and razorbills, kittiwake, gannet, fulmar, cormorant and shags and of course the gulls.
 
Nicolson includes the latest research which will make you see these birds in a different way.
 
A must read for anybody with even the slightest interest in wildlife.
 
  
Ireland's Nature Stories
 
Low, Forest, Rainforest, Environment
 @ www.carstenkrieger.photography
 
All about foxes

This month’s nature story is about one of our most common animals : the fox.
 
'Intelligent, adaptable and opportunistic, it is a very welcome connection to nature for many people in rural as well as urban areas.'
 


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