GOWRS - Specialists in Oiled Wildlife Preparedness and Response
The GOWRS Network is 10 wildlife emergency response organizations, who speak with a unified voice on preparedness and response for oiled wildlife. The Network’s members provide professional oiled wildlife services to any interested client, industry and government alike, through the utilisation of experienced and trained wildlife response personnel working to agreed international standards.
Our members have over 200 years of experience between them, working to prevent wildlife being impacted by oil and other potentially harmful contaminants. We help wildlife!
Our World Class Members
The GOWRS Network members are spread throughout the globe and are internationally renowned for their work in assisting wildlife. They have operational experience in many locations and habitats around the world, working in marine and terrestrial environments with birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
Services Offered
The primary service we offer is the deployment of four experts (the “Assessment Team”) to perform key assessment functions in the early days of a spill. Their role is to provide recommendations as to how to best deliver a wildlife response to the client. More details of this service, and the others we offer, can be obtained by following these links: - assessment service, exercise service, training, consultancy, operational response led by one of our members.
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GOWRS network members convene monthly in a number of working groups in order to increase capacity and develop the initiative.
