lunes, 28 de octubre de 2024
Join us from 28th October to 1st November for OSRL’s Wildlife Week, an event designed to raise awareness and promote tiered preparedness for oiled wildlife response!
Hosted by OSRL, in collaboration with Sea Alarm and the GOWRS Network, this year’s event brings together internal and external activities to foster learning, dialogue, and collaboration across the industry.
Building on the success of previous editions, Wildlife Week has become a key event for OSRL, our wildlife partners and our Members. Since its inception, the event has focused on increasing the global readiness to respond to wildlife emergencies, sharing best practices, and discussing the latest advancements in technology and strategies. Past events have highlighted the importance of collaboration among industry leaders, wildlife experts, and response teams worldwide, creating a platform where knowledge sharing can help wildlife affected by oil spills.
This year, we are thrilled to welcome experts from Sea Alarm, GOWRS and its member organisations, including Aiuká, OWCN/UC Davis, and Focus Wildlife as special guests.
How to Join
Throughout Wildlife Week, we’ll be hosting four informative webinars on Microsoft Teams, featuring key discussions on building wildlife response capacity, understanding legislation, and responding to complex offshore and nearshore wildlife incidents. There will be an option to turn on live subtitles for all webinars.
Rest assured, the timings listed in the schedule are accurate, the presenters and special guests will join us from various locations around the globe.
Please note that all sessions will be recorded, and we will provide catch-up links to everyone registered. This means you can revisit the discussions at your convenience.
Click on the links in each of the sessions below to register:
📅 31st October 1 PM UTC: Exploring Wildlife Response and Legislation Around the World
Gain insights into global wildlife response practices and evolving legislation from top industry experts.
- Speakers: Daniela Barreras-Biesot (Sea Alarm), Adam Grogan (GOWRS), Paul Kelway (OSRL)
REGISTRATION LINK: Exploring Wildlife Response and Legislation Around the World
📅 31st October 2 PM UTC: Developing a Local Wildlife Response Organization (in Spanish)
A Spanish-speaking webinar to “Explore how local wildlife response organizations are developed, with examples from South America.”
- Speakers: Valeria Ruoppolo (Aiuká) and Mariana Braga (OSRL)
REGISTRATION LINK: Developing a Local Wildlife Response Organization
📅 1st November 2 AM UTC / 10 AM UTC+8 Singapore: Oiled Wildlife Response in the Incident Management System: A closer look at the Asia Pacific Region
With a focus on the Asia Pacific Region, explore key wildlife response strategies and learn how oiled wildlife response fits into the IMS.
- Speakers: Louise Chilvers (Wildbase), Lih Hern Yow (OSRL)
📅 1st November 2 PM UTC: Oiled Wildlife Response in Offshore and Nearshore Events
Understand response strategies for challenging wildlife incidents in offshore and nearshore environments.
- Speakers: Michael Ziccardi (OWCN/UC Davis), Jenny Schlieps (Focus Wildlife), Michael Hernandez (OSRL)
REGISTRATION LINK: Oiled Wildlife Response in Offshore and Nearshore Events
Building a Global Network for Wildlife Response
Over the years, OSRL has contributed significantly to building a global community focused on wildlife protection during environmental emergencies through our support for and work with our wildlife response partners. Wildlife Week provides an opportunity to raise awareness and to enhance preparedness for wildlife emergencies, both internally within our preparedness and response teams as well as with our Members and other key stakeholders.
We invite you to be part of this year’s event and join the conversation that will continue supporting the development of robust wildlife response frameworks worldwide.
We look forward to welcoming you to Wildlife Week 2024!