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Animal Rescue

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for marine animals in distress

Marine animals in distress need our help and this help needs to be both professional and swift. Rescue experts help stranded animals, such as whales, dolphins or whale sharks back into the water. They also help to disentangle whales, dolphins, sea turtles, seals, seabirds and other animals that get entrapped in plastic waste or fishing gear.

This is why OceanCare supports expert rescue organisations around the world. We support training, capacity building and knowledge transfer among rescue experts. We assist with manuals for field operations and help purchase rescue-kits, food and medicines for animals that are hospitalised.

OceanCare has co-founded the Sea Turtle Rescue Alliance, a worldwide network to connect and empower the sea turtle rescue and rehabilitation community worldwide with expertise, knowledge-transfer and exchange of data. This pioneering project to improve the care and welfare of injured sea turtles is unique and full of potential.

 

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      Grindwale Strandung
      Strandings

      Whales and dolphins sometimes strand alive. The reasons vary and strandings can be due to natural causes. However, all too often, mass stranding is also caused by human activities. There is clear evidence that loud underwater noise, for example from military sonars ,can cause strandings. In addition, drive hunts deliberately drive whales and dolphins ashore where they are subsequently killed. OceanCare works with stranding networks worldwide to save animals and also to work to better understand the causes. OceanCare also campaigns against underwater noise and the cruel hunting of whales and dolphins.

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      Entanglement

      Over 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear are abandoned or lost at sea every year. The abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear threatens millions of marine animals. Fish and invertebrates become entangled, die and become bait for larger marine animals – such as whales, dolphins, sharks, sea turtles, seals, seabirds and other animals, which, in turn, can themselves become entangled in the nets as they feed, become ensnared themselves and then die in agony. OceanCare supports expert organisations that free marine animals from ghost nets and plastic waste and, as a member of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, works toward the reduction of ghost nets.

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      Rescuing stranded seals in England

      British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is one of the most prominent marine life rescue organisations for marine animals worldwide. It has received the support of OceanCare since 2012. In 2021, BDMLR carried out over 3,200 missions and took 378 seals into its care.

      Rescuing sea turtles from their suffering due to plastic

      Since 2108, OceanCare has been supporting the Olive Ridley Project, which is rescuing sea turtles in the Maldives. The main problem here is the ghost nets that are dumped or lost in the sea by fishermen. The animals get tangled in the lines, injure themselves or end up dying.
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      you make an important contribution to ensuring that injured dolphins, whales, seals and sea turtles can be found, cared for and released back into the wild.

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