Case Study: Bow Jubail Wildlife Response

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018

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Facts & StatisticsThanks to Hugo Nijkamp & Sea Alarm Foundation

Bow Jubail Incident TimelineDay 0 23rd June 2018 1330 Incident 2000 “Hundreds of swans oiled; being rescued by public” 2030 SAF contacted Rijkswaterstaat for verification

Day 1 Response plan activated (rehabilitation centers act as buffer)Day 2-3 Building Temporary Wildlife Hospital (TWH)Day 3 Swans start streaming in into TWHDay 30 Last swan released from TWH

Oil spill and pollution

Tier 1 and 2 mobilisations

Oiled swans66

40

261

Temporary Wildlife Hospital

Oiled swans

Temporary Wildlife Hospital

Streams of animals (swans)total 522 into THW; 509 (497+12) released

Houtsnip

Wulp

Maassluis

Karel Schot

Temporary Wildlife Hospital

Released with scientific ring

Released without scientific ring

?

~90

66

40

155 261

497

14

Euthanasia

Died in care

74

Released with scientific ring

12

Euthanasia1

Died in care

1

Intensive care

Personnel, work days

• 91 experts• 27 experts SAF/EUROPE/GLOBAL• 32 experts Dutch professionals• 32 experts Dutch trained

volunteers• >142 convergent volunteers• 233 individuals involved• 1,387 man days of experts and

volunteers

(10,401 swan days)

Bankers hours (6) vs swan days (7.5)

Personnel over timeInternational, national, volunteers

Wildlife hospital swan population

Overall result522 swans received

522

14

Success factors

Authority+

WildlifeResponse

Plan+

PreparednessProgramme

(2009-2022)

GOWRS-Project Network

SON-Responsnetwork

National Regional (Europe) Global

Costs of wildlife response?Item Assessed (Euros) % of total

Bow Jubail in total 200 mln 100

Wildlife response total 4 mln 4%

SAF/EUROWA/GOWRS/SON-Response

0.470 mln 0.47%

Expensive?