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Brambles Wildlife Rescue
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BRAMBLES WILDLIFE RESCUEis 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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They 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
Donations received from kind-hearted members of the public are used to buy medicine, pay for treatment, feed and give the injured wildlife a warm and safe home whilst they recover.
The rescue is planning to relocate in early 2022 in order to have the land and space to erect some aviaries and waterfowl pens for soft release and to give disabled birds a long-term home.
Ready for relocation in 2022, the rescue are looking for public or sponsorship support to raise funds for aviaries and pens, alongside the day-to-day running costs. This will help the rescue to see the recovery journeys of wildlife right through to the end and to be able to give disabled birds a quality of life. The rescue receives no government or supported funding and the costs are currently covered by their full-time jobs and the generosity of public donations.
The rescue is run via their Facebook page www.facebook. com/brambleswildliferescue where you will find links of how to donate or support them at the top of their page or feel welcome to message them for further details.
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