Line of action:

Marine ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Autonomous City of Ceuta

Execution date:

2022

Duration:

01/01/2022 - 31/12/2025

Total budget:

€298,060.90

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€283,157.86 (95%)

CECAM is the only association authorised to carry out rescue, recovery and clinical treatment work for marine species in a vulnerable or endangered state on the coast of the Autonomous City of Ceuta. Its volunteer staff is fully available, throughout the year, offering immediate response and permanent attention and action in strandings. The project will strengthen the management of the network and raise awareness of this problem in society. This project aims to solve the problem of management and immediate application for the Autonomous City of Ceuta when it comes to finding a stranded marine animal alive, as well as the appropriate information to quickly resolve the rescue procedures and logistics of transport and reintroduction at sea.

Some of the actions contemplated in this project are:

• Preparation of daily water tanks, feeding the animals with the appropriate diet, water conditioning, veterinary tests, euthanasia if necessary.
• Isolation of animals, handling by trained personnel, performance of animal disease tests.
• Dissemination in educational centers and associations of the work of the center, as well as protocols of action in cases of strandings to the general population, publications of press releases.
• Training days and open days at the centre, as well as notifying the reintroductions of animals in the press.
• Reintroduce marine species in the least traumatic way for the animal and disseminate this media event, which usually awakens a marine animal.