East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) has been committed to wildlife well-being since 1985.
Our mission is to provide a front-line rescue service for wildlife casualties, who, unlike their domestic counterparts, often have no one else to turn to. We work closely with other animal welfare organisations across the South and around the country, to ensure that every animal gets the care and attention it deserves.
Every year, we handle between 3-4,000 calls, 2023 was our busiest year yet with over 5,500 casualities, all managed by our passionate team of volunteer rescuers. We offer our services completely free of charge, relying on the generous donations from people like you to cover our operational costs, which average £85 per call-out.
Here we are mid-summer, and everything remains as busy as ever, you will see in this newsletter some of the rescues we have undertaken and some firsts for example our first Goshawk. It is with mixed feelings as we care for these creatures, a sadness that harm is coming to these amazing birds, but excitement that the population of these birds is spreading into the Southeast and that we are here and able to take care of them when they need us most.
The staff and volunteers have been doing an amazing job over the last few months, one day at the end of July we counted up that we had around 400 casualties in our care. That’s a lot of feeding, cleaning and monitoring going on – a big thank you to everyone involved, from the public taking the time and the care to help the injured to the amazing volunteers and staff who help rehabilitate and return all the wild creatures.
These are just four of the recent rescues which WRAS has undertaken. Click on each link to watch the video on our You Tube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@EastSussexWRAS
Once again, we are having a record year for casualties and as the numbers keep growing so do our costs. The space at the casualty centre is at a premium and we are grateful to all the supporters who have the remote pens that allow us to have ‘halfway’ pens preparing the wildlife before they are released.
Celebrating Seaford 