Tips for saving wild animals in distress

Trisk'ailes

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Action zones

Bretagne

The project

BiodiversitySensibilization

Trisk'ailes provides advice and support by telephone to anyone who finds themselves faced with an injured, sick or young bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian left to fend for itself.

of wild animals in distress are caused by human activities

2 600

wild animals

wild animals are helped each year thanks to the telephone mediation service

26 000

wild animals

wild animals in distress were cared for by Trisk'ailes between 2007 and 2021 in its former care center

Solution

The Trisk'ailes wildlife mediation service accompanies an average of over 2,600 people every year, helping around 8 birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians a day. The service is based on the principle of "learning by doing", which teaches the right gestures to adopt, avoiding errors of interpretation and action, and limiting unnecessary intervention (capture, captivity and transport being stressful acts for wild animals).

This way, Trisk'ailes favors the least intrusive possible intervention on site. Thus, during the breeding season (March-August), its team guides the birds back to the nest or builds a replacement nest.

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12/18/2024

Prevention is better than cure, and the proof is in the pudding...

Charres difteurs,

On December 3, we received a solicitation from a resident of Normandy (even though we're chauvinistic Breton-nes, we help animals across the border!). As her garden is conducive to biodiversity, she's used to coming across hedgehogs, especially during the breeding season.

But as winter arrives, a 240g juvenile comes into view. It doesn't look good. It's covered in ticks, which is not a good sign... This may be a consequence of immune weakening, and if the extreme cold ever decides to show up, it will, in any case, not have sufficient fat reserves to hibernate and cope.

It's too late for him to be entrusted to his mother as she has already gone off on her own, like all hedgehogs. And as far as we know, there's no care center nearby that can take him in. So the only solution is to take him into temporary care at a veterinary clinic to have his ticks removed one by one, and to help him feed so that he gains weight.

Unfortunately, despite good intentions, this doesn't work every time. The hedgehog, probably too weakened, couldn't stand captivity, and didn't survive.

That's also the lot of our business.

That's why we raise awareness of biodiversity issues among 200 children and over 4,000 adults every year, thanks in no small part to you.

Thank you for your support and generosity ✨

11/7/2024

The European hedgehog: officially a near-threatened species

Dear difteurs,

It's official, the European hedgehog has just joined the red list of threatened species edited by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

This alarming observation, that of the decline in the hedgehog population, had been that of Trisk'ailes in Brittany since 2018, the year in which this species became the most frequently encountered species in distress, overtaking the herring gull which has topped the list since 2007.

In October 2024, the hedgehog remained the animal most often in distress in our solicitations... It alone accounted for 1/4 of all solicitations. And most alarmingly, 90% of them were juveniles. The correlation between climate change, which is making our autumns milder, and the hedgehogs' increasingly late litters puts them in danger: not all the young will be able to face winter and survive it, not without our help.

Thank you, dear difteurs, thanks to your support, we can come to their aid via our necessary telephone accompaniment, our containment advice and our solutions.

More information on our actions on our social networks !

The money will be used for

The mediation mission impacts several expense items. Here's what your donations finance in concrete terms:

A majority of the salary of the animal caretaker who handles 99% of the requests to help wild animals in distress
A cell phone package necessary for processing
Part of the electricity and internet charges
A small part of the salary of the development officer who analyzes and valorizes mediation data to make it accessible and improve the mediation service
A portion of the allowance reserved for the civic service volunteers trained to replace the salaried mediator during her leave

Trisk'ailes

Offer a dift

Thanks to your difts

356

rescued animals

261 difts

Action zones

Bretagne

Why we love it?

This Breton association provides a wildlife mediation service that enables us to learn how to better cohabit with wildlife, and thus preserve biodiversity in the best possible way!

I defend environmental and animal causes, but also social ones. That's why I believe in the Trisk'ailes care center project. My aim is to create a welcoming structure that provides real well-being for wildlife and the people who help them.