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| IFAW
sponsored response helped save 20,000
oiled penguins in Cape Town, South Africa in June 2000.
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As International
Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) has grown over the years,
we've also forged a unique relationship with another non-profit
organization, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
IFAW's Emergency Relief Program has funded IBRRC's
many international responses to devastating oil spills, often
to areas that have no infrastructure to deal with large scale
animal oiling events such as the Treasure
spill of South Africa in 2000. We've continued, throughout
the years and responses, to strengthen the global emergency
relief team by adding experienced and trained individuals
from around the globe.
After working collaboratively for many years,
IBRRC and IFAW have partnered to jointly manage some aspects
of IFAW's Global Emergency Relief Team. Although IFAW's Emergency
Relief Program also includes animal work with sanctuaries,
rehabilitation centers, mammal strandings and natural disasters,
oil spill response is the strongest focus of the program and
the main area of expertise that IBRRC brings to the team.
Along with our collaboration on oil spill contingency plans,
training and response, IBRRC also helps oversee many aspects
of the work with wildlife rehabilitation centers and sanctuaries.
Currently, IBRRC is
working on several IFAW projects
ranging from our assisting with
the development of a new raptor
center in Beijing, China to providing
guidance on a cockatoo rehabilitation
and reintroduction program in Australia.
Within the oil spill response area
we are also networking with aquaria
and wildlife rehabilitation organizations,
along the east coast of South America,
from Brazil to the southern coast
of Argentina, to respond to chronic
oiling of magellanic penguins. See:
Penguin
Network
In addition to oil spill response, we continue
to provide training in strategic areas, places that either
suffer from chronic oiling or regular spills. Earlier this
year we gave intensive, oil spill response training in France,
near the site of last years devastating Erika spill and have
just completed three oiled wildlife training classes in Germany,
as well as one in Ireland. Along with these on-site training
classes, we hosted a group from the Netherlands at the headquarters
in Cordelia.
In each of the geographic areas that the IFAW
Global Emergency Relief Team works, we have established working
relationships with local wildlife resource managers, wildlife
rehabilitation centers and industry which allow us to collaborate
with local groups to bring the highest standard of animal
care possible to the region.
It is through these relationships that we often
receive invitations to respond to oil spills outside of the
United States such as our responses in South Africa, Japan,
Germany, France, Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador.
More info:
Treasure oil spill
response
IFAW website
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