Wildlife Emergency Services
I have founded/co-founded 2 organisations that I think of as 'emergency wildlife organisations'. They are called the Wildlife Care Badge & UK Wildlife Transporters. We're all just one planetary community & these 'wild' organisations are just a way to provide a helping human hand, as & when needed, to our UK wildlife: recognising the right that we ALL share, to thrive.
Wildlife Care Badge
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...
UK Wildlife Transporters
UKWT is a UK based, non-profit organisation that recruits, equips - with carriers & disinfectant - and funds fuel costs for a national network of wildlife-loving Volunteer Drivers who all give up their time, and use their own vehicles, to respond at short notice to help get injured/poorly UK wildlife to medical care ASAP.
Over a million - perhaps even up to 2 million - wildlife casualties found in the UK can end up passing away purely because they couldn't be transported to & from Rescues/Vets/Rehabbers quickly enough/at all...
UKWT is here to change all that....
