It is not uncommon to cross paths with a sparrow, a bat or a hedgehog in bad shape, and to find yourself very helpless. Is he injured? Should we rescue him? How to do it? Since May 2024, the SOS Faune Sauvage Bretagne platform has been supporting you by telephone 7 days a week. Enough to concretely help the wild animals that our lifestyles put to the test.
Meet a need
SOS Wildlife Brittany was created to fill a gap. Previously, discoverers had to turn to nature defense associations, veterinarians or health centers. Everyone worked on their own scale and with their own means. From now on, it’s simpler since pooling is at work.
The regional platform was designed to meet the needs of wildlife subject to increasingly difficult living conditions. Road traffic, bay windows, phytosanitary products, predation of domestic animals, city lights, climate change make cohabitation difficult.
For this reason, a team of professional mediators is ready to respond to requests received daily on the single number.
How to do it?
For the walker, road user or gardener that you are, contacting the mediation service is as basic as a call to the SAMU.
After providing precise information about the animal and the place where you spotted it, you receive the first recommendations. If necessary, a logistics chain is set up to transport your loved one to a suitable care structure.
Making contact not only saves an animal and relieves the burden on care centers, it provides the satisfaction of making a contribution. It can even make you a hero, because sometimes it takes a little to do a lot: place a baby bird high up and away from predators, place a small mammal calmly in a box, or not intervene unless necessary. is not necessary!
And then?
The platform, which received aid from the Brittany Region and the European Union, will continue the experiment until 2027. Given the number of requests processed since its launch – 9,317 between May 6 and August 21, 2024 — we can predict a recognized usefulness and a long life for it.
Because we better protect what we know, the team dreams of broadening its field of action with, among other things, the compilation of regional faunal data and raising awareness among the general public.
It is also seeking to expand its network of volunteer repatriators in order to complete the coverage of the Breton territory. The call is on!
All you have to do is save the SOS Faune Sauvage Bretagne number on your cell phone and keep your eyes peeled!
If necessary, reception is available every day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., on 02 57 63 13 13.
More information on the SOS Faune sauvage website
