Welcome....
September and October are always ext remely busy months when it comes to releasing many of our orphaned animals back to the wild. Of ten f inding the t ime to release our animals is dif f icult when staf f are also car ing for the other animals in our care that are not ready for release. Some releases also require a sof t release approach which involves set t ing up cages in the f ield to provide a suppor t ive return to the wild.
It is a real juggling act at t imes, especially when we also said goodbye to our fully trained year-long students and welcoming in our new 'raw' recruits. Joseph, Cameron, Dean and Monica (pictured lef t to right above) have come f rom all over the country to join us and will be working alongside our wildlife and cat tery teams. Arriving in September is really dropping them in at the deep end because we are so busy but they are lucky that they get to experience the best part of the job which is releasing some of our animals back to the wild. I know
some of the team have already spent some long and t iring days out with Rob on his fox releases this year which they have seemingly loved (see pages 4/ 5) .
In addit ion to the usual wildlife admissions at this t ime of year, hedgehogs, swans and pigeons, the team have also admit ted a number of rare exot ic admissions which has created quite a storm on the press f ront . We are current ly holding a raccoon and a silver fox (see page 6); the silver fox being the f irst for the Society so his arrival has been quite excit ing for the team.
Both, likely exot ic pets that have either been dumped or have escaped, will now be found suitable loving forever homes, which is easier said than done.
2018 has been another extremely busy year and as of 15th November we had admit ted 6,331 animals into the wildlife centre, which means we are likely to exceed 2017's tally if things cont inue as expected.
Lee Stewar t , Cent re Manager
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