WRI e-newsletter
April 2019
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NEWS - Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland
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Advanced Wildlife Veterinary Treatment Course
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Course for veterinary professionals **June**
This Course concentrates on the theory and practice of wildlife
treatment available to veterinary practioners.
It is limited to just 20
attendees.
This course is open to anyone IN THE VETERINARY PROFESSION -
regardless of your wildlife experience.
We're offering this course only once a year so book early to avoid disappointment.
Credits: 11 CVE credits
Venue: Ashbourne, Co Meath
Date: 29th June
REGISTER: HERE
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Introduction to Wildlife Rehabilitation Course
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Course date announcement - **November**
Topics include:
the legal and ethical issues regarding wildlife rehabilitation; safe rescue and handling; how to perform a physical examination; first aid and common ailments; what to feed wildlife; how to house them; zoonotic diseases; and release considerations.
The highlight for most attendees - the practical sessions!! (on cadavers), include:
capture and handling; physical examinations; injections; tube feeding; bandaging; etc..
The course is open to anyone - regardless of your wildlife experience.
Credits: 22.5 CVE credits
Venue: Ashbourne, Co Meath
Date: 30th November & 1st Dec
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Convicting people of wildlife
crimes is extremely difficult
and a huge amount of effort goes into it, so each month we're going to draw your attention to the cases we've been
told about (both old and new) |
Wildlife Crime Prosecution: NPWS
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Cutting vegetation outside the legislated time frame
[2016] Farmer Patrick Reburn of Cashel, Cootehill, Co Cavan, was found guilty of wildlife offences pertaining to the cutting of vegetation outside the legislated time frame.
More Info - 'Case Details' tab on the 'Prosecutions' page of wildlifecrime.ie
Wildlife Crime Ireland website offers: Basic information on wildlife crime Links to further information Advice on Recognising & Recording a crime Contact details for Reporting a wildlife crime
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RSPB Wildlife Crime Magazine
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RSPB's latest issue of 'Legal Eagle'
The latest news from the UK on egg smuggling, bird trapping, developers and bats, badger diggers and more.
Cover photo: On 10 January 2019, Jeffrey Lendrum (56) of Cliftonville Road, Northampton pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to four counts contrary to Section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979. He was caught at Heathrow Airport on 26 June 2018 and found to be carrying live eggs of species including African fish eagle, Cape vultures, African hawk-eagles and black sparrowhawks. The eggs – two of which had hatched – were strapped to his chest and concealed under his coat. He was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment.
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) in Ireland
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XR - fighting for our planet's future
Around 200 Extinction Rebellion (XR Ireland) supporters symbolically lay down on Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork to depict the looming possibility of species extinction in the absence of meaningful action to curtail global temperature rise.
XR’s main demands include the declaration of a climate and ecological emergency, immediate government action to halt biodiversity loss and targets to reach net zero emissions by 2025. One in every four of the 3,000 species that have undergone a red-list conservation assessment is threatened with extinction in Ireland.
There are peaceful XR civil disobedience events and talks taking place in over 40 countries as part of the Week of International Rebellion.
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Maritime Pollution Awareness
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'Trash Wall'
Measuring 15 meters long by two meters high, the wall was built with plastic trash removed from only three days of garbage left on the beach of Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro.
The effort aims to draw attention to the fight against maritime pollution caused by plastic in the oceans. According to Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum, by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the sea.
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Bee Identification Workshops
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Irish Wildlife Trust People for Bees 2019
As part of the ' People for Bees' programme the Irish Wildlife Trust is running a series of wild bee monitoring workshops. At this event you will learn the basics of bumblebee identification and wild bee monitoring as well as some pollinator friendly actions you can take in your garden.
Venue: Limerick and Donegal
Date: May 11th and 19th
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EDUCATION - International
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Resolve Conservation Issues Through Technology
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WILDLABS.NET
The WILDLABS platform brings together a community of conservationists, technologists, engineers, data scientists, entrepreneurs and thought leaders. WILDLABS aims to build and support an active cross-sector community of conservationists and technology experts who use the WILDLABS online platform to:
Share information to increase transparency and reduce replication of effort;
Ask and answer questions to share best practice, to increase efficiency and effectiveness of technology deployment to address conservation challenges;
Collaborate to improve existing technologies or develop new technologies that address identified conservation needs.
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Did you know
Ants keep aphids as ‘sugar cattle’. Our agricultural revolution only happened 10,000 years ago. By then,
ants had been keeping aphids as livestock for something like 100 million
years
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