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Oiled Wildlife Cleaning & Rehabilitation
One of the recommendations from the Review of the Response into the Iron Baron Oil Spill stated:
"Appropriate wildlife rescue and rehabilitation kits should be included in any pool of response material and be made available, under the national Plan, at key locations around the country."
In response to this recommendation four kits were assembled, and transported by AMSA to the following locations and have become part of the National Plan equipment stockpile.
- Sydney - New South Wales
- Darwin - Northern Territory
- Townsville - Queensland
- Como - Western Australia
Further to this, the second meeting of the National Plan Operations Group (NPOG 2) approved the assembly and distribution of an additional three kits to complete the Oiled Wildlife Response Kit acquisition program. These kits have been placed in the following locations
- Dampier - Western Australia
- Adelaide - South Australia
- Brisbane - Queensland
With the existing oiled wildlife kits at AMOSC Geelong, Victoria and State owned equipment in Tasmania the National Plan has oiled wildlife kits with a capacity to treat in the vicinity of 4000-5000 birds.
Oiled Wildlife Response Kit Policy and Loan Agreements
An Oiled Wildlife Response Kit Policy and Loan Agreement has been developed to clearly set out the States/NT responsibilities for the maintenance and management of the kits. This policy was endorsed at NPOG 2.
A copy of the Policy and the Loan Agreement can be found at the following links.
Cleaning Agents
One of the outcomes from the fourteenth meeting of the National Plan Advisory Committee (NPAC 14) was a recommendation that Oiled Wildlife Response Kits should be updated with new detergents. This followed a study conducted by Taronga Zoo, commissioned by AMSA, to test the detergents currently in the kits and compare them to a number of other commercially available cleaning agents.
The main recommendation from this report was that the existing detergents should be removed from the kits and be replaced with Dawn© and Biosolve© cleaning agents. AMSA distributed these new detergents to the existing wildlife kits in July 2000.
Kit contents
Taronga Zoo, in conjunction with the Zoological Parks Board of NSW, was commissioned to review the veterinary supplies in the kits by the National Plan Environment Working Group. Taronga Zoo provided AMSA with an alternate listing of the veterinary supplies that should be in the kits. Further to this AMSA has incorporated these recommendations into the three (3) kits that have recently been distributed.
The oiled wildlife protection kit consists of two main parts; general equipment and veterinary supplies. The general stores are packed within plastic boxes marked Box 1, Box 2 etc. Veterinary supplies are contained in two locked plastic shipping trunks.
The kit comprises the following main components:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 6 | Plastic storage/treatment boxes - General Equipment (see contents list below) |
| 2 | Plastic shipping containers - Veterinary supplies (see contents list below) |
| 45 | Collapsible cardboard pet packs |
| 4 | 4 Large collapsible animal/bird cages |
| 5 | 5 Stackaway boxes with lids (top box contains 10 x 1 L plastic bottles and specimen jars) |
| 2 | 2 25 L plastic drums |
| 5 | 5 10 L plastic buckets |
| 2 | 2 Folding tables |
| 2 | 12 mm x 30 m plastic hoses |
General Equipment
Box 1 contains:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | PVC chest waders (with repair kit) |
| 10 | Disposable overalls (size XL) |
| 10 | Leather riggers gloves |
| 3 | Dayglo safety vests with reflective panels |
| 5 | Safety goggles |
Box 2 contains:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 2 | Poly tarps |
| 2 | Faceshields |
| 1 | 2 m x 20 m 200 UM Polythene sheet |
| 1 | 2 m x 20 m 100 UM Polythene sheet |
| 2 | Flexible plastic funnels |
| 3 | Large towels |
Box 3 contains:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | First Aid kit |
| 2 | Aerogard spray |
| 1 | Disinfectant bottle |
| 6 | Toilet rolls |
| 2 | Tins barrier cream |
| 3 | Boxes tissues |
| 1 | Tube Antiseptic cream |
| 500 | Card tags |
| 1 | Room thermometer |
| 1 | Kitchen thermometer |
| 2 | Torches with batteries |
| 1 | 4 mm x 30 m nylon rope |
| 1 | 6 mm x 15 m nylon rope |
| 200 | Cable ties |
| 5 | Rolls masking tape |
| 5 | Rolls packing tape |
| 5 | Large marker pens |
| 10 | 2B pencils |
Box 4 contains:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | Electric fan heater |
| 5 | Rolls paper towel |
| 2 | Clear box lids |
Boxes 5 and 6 contain:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | Electric fan heater |
| qty | qty Specimen jars |
| 1 | Metal toolbox |
| 5 | Hessian bags |
Veterinary Supplies
Veterinary Box 1 contains:
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 20 | Isopto tears |
| 20 | Optigentin |
| 100 | 0.9% saline 10ml disposable tubes |
| 1 bottle | Activated charcoal tablets 300mg (100 tabs) |
| 1 | 0.9% saline 1l |
| 6 | Spark Electrovet |
| 1 | Scourban 2.5l |
| 2 | Lethabarb 500ml |
| 10 | Hills a/d canned food |
| 6 boxes | Sporonox capsules (100mg) |
| 100ml | Normal hydrochloric acid (32%) |
| 1 | De-ionised water 1l |
| 2 | Sterile water 100ml |
Veterinary Box 2 contains:
Non-perishables
| Quantity | Item |
|---|---|
| 4 | KY gel tubes |
| 4 | Digital thermometers |
| 10 pkts | Gauze swabs (1000) 10 x 10cm |
| 1 box | Scalpel blades size 22 |
| 1 | Size 4 scalpel handle |
| 4 | Tissue forceps |
| 1 | Bone cutters/pliers |
| 3 | Surgical scissors |
| 1 | Sharps container 8l |
| 10 | DAWN liquid detergent |
| 25 | Twist tie bags (75 x 125mm) |
| 25 | Twist tie bags (140 x 220mm) |
| 5 | Plastic bottles 500ml |
| 10 | Plastic bottles 250ml |
| 10 | Plastic bottles 50ml |
| 1 | Microshield 2, 2.5l |
| 2 | Oil spill manuals |
| 2 | Sunscreen |
| 2 | Insect repellant |
| 6 | Safety goggles |
| 1 | Measuring jug 1l |
| 1 | Measuring jug 2l |
| 20 | Feeding tubes (8 Fr) |
| 20 | Feeding tubes (10 Fr) |
| 20 | Feeding tubes (14 Fr) |
| 20 | Feeding tubes (18 Fr) |
| 10 | Feeding tubes (24 Fr) |
| 1 | Buffered formalin 10% 5l |
| 1 box | 25g needles (100) |
| 1 box | 21g needles (100) |
| 50 | Syringes 1ml |
| 100 | Syringes 2.5ml |
| 100 | Syringes 5ml |
| 100 | Syringes 10ml |
| 100 | Syringes 35ml |
| 100 | Syringes 50ml leuer lock |
| 100 | Syringes 50ml catheter tip |
| 1 box | Small disposable latex gloves |
| 1 box | Medium disposable latex gloves |
| 1 box | Large disposable latex gloves |
| 1 | Office Scissors |
| 10 | Calico bags (small) |
| 10 | Calico bags (medium) |
| 10 | Calico bags (large) |
| 2 | Extension cord |
| 2 | Power board |
| 1 | Tarpaulin (5m x 5m) |
| 25 | Plastic fold up cat boxes |
| 200 | Cotton buds |
| 2 | Masking tape |
| 200 | Record sheets |
| 5 | Clip boards |
| 5 | Pens |
| 5 | Permanent markers |
| 2 | A4 writing pad |
| 5 | Heat lamps |
| 10 rolls | Paper towels |
| 1 | Hanging scales (Salter 5kg) |
| 25 | Cloth nappys |
| 50 | Garbage bags |
| 2 | Emergency treatment protocol (laminated) |
| 2 | List of contents of boxes (laminated) |
| 1 | Procedure for compounding itraconazole liquid (laminated) |
Equipment Suppliers
To order new equipment contact the following:
a. General Equipment items:
| Hardwarehouse PO Box 306 Fyshwick ACT 2609 Ph: (02) 6260 6887 Fax: (02) 6280 6914 |
Workin' Gear Paragon Mall Gladstone St Fyshwick ACT 2609 Ph: (02) 6280 5885 Fax: (02) 6239 1311 |
b. Medical Equipment:
| Cenvet Pty Ltd PO Box 130 Artarmon NSW 2064 Ph: (02) 9436 0671 Fax: (02) 9438 1812 |
Lyppard Victoria Pty Ltd 2 Shearson Crescent Mentone VIC 3194 Ph: (03) 9585 1600 Fax: (03) 9585 1611 |
last updated: 23 October 2003