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Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring & Surveillance Network
Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring & Surveillance Network
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Below is a list of the schemes that form the WILDCOMS network. For each scheme a brief description, website link, contact name, telephone number and e-mail address is given.
If you run a scheme that you think should be included as a collaborative partner please contact Lee Walker on 01524 595830 or e-mail him at leew@ceh.ac.uk
A national surveillance scheme quantifying contaminants in sentinel predatory bird species. The PBMS is run by CEH and co-funded by CEH, Natural England (NE), Environment Agency (EA) and the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) — run by an industrial consortium of rodenticide suppliers.
Link: Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme
Contact: Lee Walker, Tel. 01524 595830
Investigates wildlife deaths in England and Wales where there is evidence that pesticide poisoning may be involved. WIIS monitors the effects of pesticide use after approval, so that approvals can be revised if necessary, and provides a measure of the success of the pesticide registration process. WIIS is funded via the Pesticides Safety Directorate. The Central Science Laboratory (CSL) conducts the toxicology investigations for WIIS and interprets the significance of residues detected.
Link: WIIS
Contact: Libby Barnett, Tel. TBC,
This is the companion Scottish scheme run by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA).
Link: SASA
Contact: Elizabeth Sharp, Tel. TBC,
Conducts wildlife disease surveillance (including wildlife related emerging diseases and zoonoses, diseases of conservation importance and diseases that may reflect pollution) for all vertebrate wildlife species. It is run by the VLA and funded by Defra.
Link: VLA DoWS
Contact: Paul Duff, Tel. TBC
Investigates contaminant concentrations and the incidence of fish diseases in vertebrate fish at offshore and inshore sites to assess the health status at both the organism and population level. Within England and Wales, it is coordinated by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) and is funded by Defra.
Link: CSEMP
Contact: Robin Law, Tel. 01621 787271,
This scheme monitors otters (a sentinel top predator in riverine systems) to assess otter health, screen for disease, and measure exposure to contaminants. The scheme is run and co-funded by CardiffUniversity and the EA.
Link: Cardiff University Otter Project
Contact: Elizabeth Chadwick, Tel. 02920 874046,
The prgramme conducts disease risk analysis and health surveillance for rare native species and species within NE’s Species Recovery Programme. The scheme is run by the Institute of Zoology (IoZ) and funded by NE.
Link: Species Recovery Programme
Contact: Tony Sainsbury, Tel. TBC
A programme started in 2004 to monitor organic contaminants in eels (Anguilla anguilla) at 36 sites as part of assessing the state of the Scottish environment.
Link: SEPA
Contact: Janet Moxley, Tel. 0131 273 7315
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