A Wonderful Announcement, To Help Wildlife Carers & Wildlife More...

I’m really pleased to announce a new WCB step towards supporting not just our WCB Holders more but also Vet Practices, across the UK, to help wildlife...

• We have been receiving an increased number of requests by Vet Practices for advice on wildlife that have been dropped into them.  In response, we have been reaching out to veterinary professionals who are very experienced in wildlife care, to help advise them.  Emily Elliott, as a RVN and a highly experienced rehabber, has been called on increasingly as this year has gone on.  It has reached a point where it’s time to formalise the arrangement, because of the amount of times that Emily is especially being called upon.

• Equally, it has been proven to us again this month how vital high welfare, smaller Rescues - often home based Wildlife Rescues - are.  As well as running the WCB, some of you know that I also run UK Wildlife Transporters, so I speak to Rescues & Vet Practices all across the UK, every day, and there is one area in particular in the UK that is struggling a lot from a lack of high welfare, smaller Rescues being able to share the load with the larger hospital centres.

With no structure that new wildlife rehabbers can start into (like a degree, that then leads to a residency, like veterinary professionals and human health care professionals can start from) rehabbers have all self educated themselves, in a multitude of ways, to try and be the best rehabbers that they can.  The least we can do is SUPPORT high welfare Rescues and wildlife care practices (however small a Rescue is) as much as possible AND celebrate them.  So Emily’s role will also be supporting WCB Holders with wildlife care advice, as and when needed AND offering advice to any Rehabbers who might want to improve their knowledge base and standards, on how to go about it.

Emily and I have agreed upon a ‘wildlife care advice role’ of 15hrs a month, to start with.  [Discretionary bonus hours may be gifted on top, up to 8hrs a week - purely at Emily’s discretion & only if Emily is available & not too busy with her own rescue work.]

I am really excited about this new way of helping humans to help wildlife and thanks so much Emily for trialling this new idea with us.