“Sometimes a fresh perspective renews a sense of priorities – release from pre-occupations that didn’t really matter, and fresh awareness of things that can pass us by in the confusion of the busy lives we lead”. These are the words of city lawyer Colin de la Rue on why he decided to climb eight mountains in support of eight charitable causes (Eight up campaign).
It is with great sadness that we learned that our friend Jim Conroy passed away on March 22 after losing his battle with cancer.
It is with great sadness that we learned that our former chairman, Alessandro Barisich, passed away on January 20th after an illness.
On Saturday April 16 Sea Alarm hosted the board meeting of the Dutch national oiled bird rehabilitation network (SON – Stichting Olievogels Nederland) at its offices in Brussels.
Sea Alarm has completed three new Country Wildlife Response Profiles: for the USA, Greenland and Iceland.
Sea Alarm was invited to present its views on European oiled wildlife preparedness and response at a national wildlife seminar in Norway. The seminar took place on 17 and 18th March in Oslo and was jointly organised by Friends of the Earth Norway and the Norwegian oil companies operating association (NOFO).
Sea Alarm was invited to make a presentation at a recent meeting of the European Community Shipowners Association (Safety and Environment Committee) in Brussels.
Sea Alarm hosted the 3rd meeting of key European wildlife response organisations at its office in Brussels in April. The group, which includes Sea Alarm, the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA), the Ostend Wildlife Rescue Centre (Belgium), and ProBird (Germany), meets twice a year to evaluate and further optimise their joint international response preparedness.
Sea Alarm attended a briefing in February on the new European Environmental Liability Directive. The ELD is based on the polluter pays concept: polluters can be held strictly liable for environmental damage…
After their meeting at the EnSaCo workshop in September 2010, Heather Parker of the US Coast Guard invited Hugo Nijkamp to attend a HAZWOPER course in Everett, Washington, in late February 2011.
In the days following the HAZWOPER course, Hugo visited various wildlife organisations based on the West Coast of the US, including Focus Wildlife, International Bird Rescue (formerly International Bird Rescue Research Center), Oiled Wildlife Care Network and WildRescue.
Sea Alarm would like to wish all its readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year!