Canarian Weekly
31-05-2013, 13:00
The Centre for Wildlife Recovery (CRFS), located in La Tahonilla, Tenerife are opening its doors to the public from Monday 3rd June until Friday 7th June to enable visitors to see the work that they do.
A mixture of events will be taking place which began with the release of Loggerhead turtles at El Medano in the municipality of Granadilla, yesterday (Thursday) and will culminate with a bird of prey release at El Sauzal on the 8th June.
Throughout the week you can visit the centre between the hours of 11.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.00 hours. In addition there will be lectures; cetaceans (Friday June 3) birds (Wednesday, 5 June) and environmental volunteering (Monday June 6), day 4 will be a presentation of the database of the past 15 years of the Tahonilla, which will publicly be available via the internet.
Tahonilla is part of the Biodiversity Environment unit of the Tenerife Cabildo – they take in injured wildlife found in Tenerife, both on land and at sea, which have been located by citizens, police, civil defense, diving clubs, sports clubs, fishermen, etc.
The basic objective is the rehabilitation and release of the animals returning them to the wild as soon as possible. Alongside this work they evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and track the most interesting animals once returned to the wild.
During the last 15 years the Centre has rescued 28,156 animals of which 21,174 have been released.
Many marine animals end up in the centre as they’ve been caught in drift nets and suffer injuries from plastic and raffia bags, ring pulls and cans which are thrown into the sea without considering the serious consequences. The loggerhead turtle is the most common reptile assisted by the centre of which 83% are returned to their natural habitat.
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A mixture of events will be taking place which began with the release of Loggerhead turtles at El Medano in the municipality of Granadilla, yesterday (Thursday) and will culminate with a bird of prey release at El Sauzal on the 8th June.
Throughout the week you can visit the centre between the hours of 11.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.00 hours. In addition there will be lectures; cetaceans (Friday June 3) birds (Wednesday, 5 June) and environmental volunteering (Monday June 6), day 4 will be a presentation of the database of the past 15 years of the Tahonilla, which will publicly be available via the internet.
Tahonilla is part of the Biodiversity Environment unit of the Tenerife Cabildo – they take in injured wildlife found in Tenerife, both on land and at sea, which have been located by citizens, police, civil defense, diving clubs, sports clubs, fishermen, etc.
The basic objective is the rehabilitation and release of the animals returning them to the wild as soon as possible. Alongside this work they evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and track the most interesting animals once returned to the wild.
During the last 15 years the Centre has rescued 28,156 animals of which 21,174 have been released.
Many marine animals end up in the centre as they’ve been caught in drift nets and suffer injuries from plastic and raffia bags, ring pulls and cans which are thrown into the sea without considering the serious consequences. The loggerhead turtle is the most common reptile assisted by the centre of which 83% are returned to their natural habitat.
More... (http://www.canarianweekly.com/wildlife-centre-opens-doors-public/)