Brambles Wildlife Rescue F @brambleswildliferescue BRAMBLES WILDLIFE RESCUE is run by Mel and Justin Greenhalgh, starting up in early 2020 during lockdown alongside their full-time working to help wildlife in need of help in Lancashire. Mel had volunteered with small wildlife for a number of years and the lack of local wildlife rescues on the Fylde Coast at the time prompted them to become more involved and set up the rescue.
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hey rescue mostly takes in injured, poorly and orphaned garden birds, gulls, ducks, pigeons and doves, rabbits, mice and hedgehogs.
The rescue also carry out outreach and monitoring work and attend to wildlife injuries on local parks and reserves such as fishing hook injuries and relocating swans and cygnets that have crash landed in places that they can’t take off again from. Recently they have arranged treatment for a swan at Stanley Park that needed an eye removed and they continue to monitor a group of swans with emerging similar eye problems. In the last 18 months, they have admitted over 370 wildlife into their small 18 bed rescue, and over 70% of them survived and were rehabilitated. The rescue doesn’t put any wildlife to sleep unless they’re in ongoing pain and have no quality of life, and they currently find sanctuary homes for disabled birds so they still have a chance at life. Most birds that the rescue treat have illnesses such as worm and parasite burdens, fungal problems, severe bacterial strains such as salmonella or E-Coli or viruses that can easily spread. Injuries treated at the rescue include problems such as tears in the crop, broken wings and broken legs caused by traffic or predators. Then there are the many orphans that come into the rescue after falling
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