05/10/2024
Would you like to help us during Flying-fox Heat Stress Events?
Fauna Rescue Flying-fox Team are seeking expressions of interest for helpers to assist the team at Flying-fox Heat Stress Events (HSE) that may occur in the coming season. Not all the roles will require you to be vaccinated against rabies.
For insurance reasons, you must be a Fauna Rescue financial member to be able to participate.
If you wish to join Fauna Rescue, you can do so here: https://www.faunarescue.org.au/membership/
Once you have joined, the ticket fee will only be $5 for members.
It is ESSENTIAL that you are able to attend our HSE Training Workshop 10.00am-12.30pm on Saturday 26th October 2023 at Fauna Rescue Headquarters, 24 Gaelic Avenue, Holden Hill 5088, if you wish to be part of the Flying-fox Heat Stress Event Team.
There will be a tour of the Botanic Park Colony after lunch for those not familiar with where the bats reside and where Fauna Rescue set up their meeting point and triage area.
A Heat Stress Event can take place from November-March, when temperatures reach over 42 degrees, so you must be able to cope with those temperatures for periods of time. We get an indication by following weather forecasts when an event could happen. Often bats do not start to need help until the latter part of the day, so even if you work you could be of vital help from late afternoon into the evening or at weekends.
The course will cover:
A History of Heat Stress Events in Adelaide
The different roles of volunteers
Monitoring an HSE
Site set up
Role of the site Coordinator
Occupational Health & Safety
Stages of an HSE
When to assist the bats
Triage
Fauna Rescue HSE Policy
The non-vaccinated roles include:
Photographers to record the day's events (you do not need fancy professional equipment for this, good shots taken on a phone will be adequate), spotters of bats in difficulty, communications, respite and refreshment organisers, scribes for weights and measures of deceased bats.
We need to be open and not hide the fact that some Heat Stress Events can be extremely traumatic with many deaths (over 10,000 bats are estimated to have died in 2019/20 season's events), but if you feel you are able to participate, you will be invaluable in helping save many lives and Fauna Rescue and Adelaide's Flying-foxes are in need of your assistance.
If you are interested, please book your place by clicking the link below.
https://www.simpletix.com/e/flying-fox-heat-stress-event-training-26-1-tickets-186750
This course is ESSENTIAL if you wish to be part of the Flying-fox Heat Stress Event Team. A Heat Stress Event can take place from November-March when temperatures reach over 42 degrees. We get an indication by following weather forecasts when an event could happen. Often bats do not start to need ...
