WRI e-newsletter
March 2020
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We realise this is a difficult time for many, if you want some diversion - take a moment to read this newsletter and learn about WRI's progress
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NEWS - Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland
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Meet our new Patron - Pete Wedderburn
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Pete joins Mary Reynolds and Sharon Shannon as patron's of WRI
Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland is privileged to have Pete Wedderburn as our additional Patron promoting the value of our work, in particular, our vision to build Ireland’s first Wildlife Rehabilitation & Teaching Hospital.
Dr Pete Wedderburn BVM&S CertVR MRCVS qualified as a vet Edinburgh, Scotland in 1985. He has worked with 3 other vets in his own companion animal practice in Bray, County Wicklow, since 1991, and he has his own menagerie of dogs, cats, ducks, hens and other animals.
Pete is well known as a media vet www.petethevet.com in Ireland and the UK, with a weekly breakfast television slot on TV3 for the past fifteen years. He has also presented prime time television programmes (TV3’s “Animal A&E”) as well as contributing regularly to national radio programmes.
Read more about Pete on our Patron page, or come and meet him at one of our events!
Pete's support for WRI over the years has been extremely valuable, and through his involvement at our events, and his media channels, Pete has brought the plight of injured wildlife to the attention of a wide and varied audience. Only through awareness can we hope to increase compassion.
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*NEW Wildlife Hospital Fundraising T-shirts
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Wildlife T-shirts for sale
As part of our fundraising drive to build Ireland's first Wildlife Rehabilitation & Teaching Hospital, we're delighted to bring you these new t-shirts!
Support WRI in this exciting venture with this unique T-shirt and display your commitment to safeguarding Ireland's wildlife.
These new WRI T-shirts feature a beautiful illustration by Steve Mulreany @thecaricature_guy. The t-shirt highlights the care that will be given to injured and orphaned wildlife in the dedicated Wildlife Hospital.
The Hospital is being built to save the lives of thousands of injured
wild animals, whilst promoting public respect and love for nature, &
providing educational opportunities and therapeutic benefits to people
who visit and work at the wildlife hospital.
Price: €20 including P&P A good range of unisex adult sizes available. Visit our SHOP here.
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Meet our new Rehab & Outreach Manager - Dan Donoher
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Click on the image below for video. A great demonstration of cooperation leading to success for this beautiful Grebe thanks to N.P.W.S, Castlebar Animal Hospital, Ark Vets, Galway & Claddagh Swan Rescue & now Dan in Kildare Animal Foundation Wildlife Unit
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WRI takes to the road
Dan has worked at Kildare Animal Foundation (KAF) for the past 17 years. Ten years ago he founded a Wildlife Unit there and has been managing it ever since. The role involves hands on wildlife rehabilitation on a daily basis, managing volunteer wildlife rehabbers at the shelter and the daily management of more than 80 volunteer wildlife responders. Read more about Dan on our Orphan Course page - click on Programme tab then Intructors HERE
While continuing his work at KAF, Dan was recently appointed, on a voluntary basis, as the Rehabilitation and Outreach Manager for Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland.
In this role Dan continues as assistant Instructor at all our wildlife courses and UCD teaching sessions, but additionally acts as the vital conduit to wildlife rehabilitators 'on the ground'.
WRI's aims are to support rehabilitators so we're delighted to have Dan visiting Ireland's rehabilitators, finding out how WRI can help them, and working with us to develop best practice guidelines specific to Ireland.
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China and Vietnam clamp down on illegal wildlife trade
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In this photo (Jan 9th 2020) provided by the Anti-Poaching Special Squad,
police look at items seized from store suspected of trafficking
wildlife in China
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It's no longer an option to ignore the dangers of the illegal wildlife trade
In February, in response to the pandemic, China's top legislative body announced tougher measures to restrict the trade in wild animal species to reduce the risk presented by illegal and unregulated wildlife trade to human health.
Then earlier this week Vietnam announced it would press ahead with similar legislation, with the country's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, instructing the ministry of agriculture and rural development to draft a directive to stop illegal trading and consumption of wildlife. Read More Here
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Coronavirus pandemic leads to huge drop in air pollution
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New satellite data reveals a significant reduction in air pollution as industrial activity stalls
As factories closed their doors, businesses were forced to shut and traffic fell sharply around cities and industrial clusters in Asia and Europe, there was a marked fall in global nitrogen dioxide levels.
The toxic gas is produced by car engines, power plants and other industrial processes.
The impact – a silver lining amid a tragic crisis – is revealed in satellite imagery recorded by the European Space Agency in recent weeks and transformed into striking visualisations.Read More Here
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Sniffer Dogs Detect Invasive Species
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40 times faster than humans: How dogs are tackling Japanese Knotweed
Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is a threat in open and riparian areas where it spreads rapidly to form dense stands, excluding native vegetation and prohibiting regeneration. This reduces species diversity and alters habitat for wildlife. Once stands become established, they are extremely persistent and difficult to remove.
It is also of concern to developers and private citizens as it has the ability to grow through tarmac and concrete if a weakness already exists, and therefore must be cleared completely before starting to build or lay roads. ( Invasive Species Ireland) Helga Heylen of Conservation Dogs Ireland (CDI) explains “Dogs don’t need visuals, and as such are not season dependent. They can find knotweed during dormancy and underground. They can work in dusk, and in densely overgrown terrain where small colonies would be invisible to human surveyors, and missed.."
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The most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife
World Wildlife Day was officially the 3rd of March, it was created to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants, so take 2 minutes to enjoy this beautiful video - ' Sustaining all life on Earth'
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