As the Wildlife Rescue Industry is unregulated in Wales, England and Northern Ireland, whenever a member of the public takes a wildlife casualty to a Wildlife Rescue or Rehabber, they can't know in advance - unless it is one of the few very large centres - whether they are dropping that animal off at the welfare equivalent of a hospital or a horror shop.

 

It is even the case that, unless a Vet Practice or Wildlife Rescue actively visits and closely works with local (and other) Wildlife Rescues/Rehabbers in their area, even they find it impossible, observing from the outside, to judge if the Wildlife Rescues in question really have the right knowledge/structure to rehab the wildlife who come into their care versus who, despite good intentions, accidentally cause a great deal of suffering, through misdiagnosis, illegal and ill given medications and more...  

 

The Wildlife Care Badge has been launched to change all that...