Sea Alarm Foundation, Oil Spill Response Ltd, and Estonian Fund for Nature organised the 10th EOW Conference in close cooperation with the founders of the conference series, International Bird Rescue Research Center and TriState Bird Rescue and Research Centre.

Sea Alarm Foundation

Sea Alarm is a non-profit organization that advances and coordinates professional responses to oiled wildlife emergencies.

Since its inception in 1999, Sea Alarm has made significant contributions to oiled wildlife preparedness and response in Europe. Its activities and projects have lead to oiled wildlife response plans, guides to good practices, international workshops, conferences, and cooperative activities in many countries. Sea Alarm also trains and coordinates a network of European and global wildlife response experts that are ready to respond to an oiled wildlife emergency within hours. Sea Alarm has been cooperating closely with Oil Spill Response since 2005 on a joint programme to expand international oiled wildlife response and preparedness services.

Oil Spill Reponse

Oil Spill Response is the largest oil spill response organization in the world. Wholly owned by the oil industry, it provides response and preparedness services to clients worldwide.

Oil Spill Response specializes in mobilizing resources quickly and effectively to oil spill incidents globally and has attended all major spill incidents, including the Prestige, Braer and Sea Empress. In cooperation with Sea Alarm, Oil Spill Response offers an oiled wildlife response service. Specialised response equipment is stockpiled in Oil Spill Response’s warehouse in the UK, Bahrain and Singapore, and can be sent out around the world at a moment’s notice. Its preparedness activities include oil spill contingency planning, and the delivery of oiled wildlife response plans for oil industry clients.

Estonian Fund for Nature

Eestimaa Looduse Fond - Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF) is a non-profit nature protection organisation, established in 1991 by biologists and conservationists and in close co-operation with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). ELF’s primary objective is the preservation of the natural diversity in Estonia.

On ELF’s initiative, natural parks and wildlife preserves have been established, and extensive inventories to map Estonia’s natural resources have been carried out. ELF has been active in numerous projects and has proven its ability to organize large events, such as recently a one-day country clean-up event in which 50,000 volunteers were involved. Together with from the state authorities and international NGOs, ELF also put in place a system that includes nearly 1000 volunteers who stand ready to assist in the event of an oil spill.