Submitted by Ms. Jacky Chaplow on
The latest WILDCOMS newsletter (Summer 2017) is now available: Summer 2017 newsletter or navigate to the Newsletters tab of the WILDCOMS website for this and all of our previous newsletters.
The PBMS is a member of WILDCOMS - a collaborative network formed between various UK surveillance schemes that monitor disease and contaminants in vertebrate wildlife.
WILDCOMS aims to:
- provide a focal point for disease and contaminant monitoring in wild vertebrates
- provide an integrated overview of the health status of UK wild vertebrates
- facilitate collaboration between WILDCOMS network partners
- facilitate identification of disease and contaminants of emerging concern
The WILDCOMS website contains a wealth of information about the partner schemes involved which include:
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), formerly AHVLA
- Cardiff University Otter Project (CUOP)
- Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme
- Disease Risk Analysis and Health Surveillance Programme
- Garden Wildlife Health
- National Fish Tissue Archive
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Lipophilic monitoring network
- Scottish Raptor Health Study
- The Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme (PBMS)
- The Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS)
- The Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS) - Scotland
- UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme
