A wildlife sanctuary is to stop rescuing wild birds due to financial pressures. <\/p>\n
Sharandys Birds of Prey, based in Vurlands Animal Farm in Swyre, Dorset, had been rescuing wild birds for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
But it announced it could no longer provide the service due to rising costs. <\/p>\n
Centre owner Sharon Cox said the move was “heartbreaking” and “one of the hardest decisions” they have ever had to make.<\/p>\n
Cox, who runs Sharandys with her son Matt, said: “I’ve been rescuing birds most of my life, and raptors for over 20 years. I don’t think we’ve ever said no before, and that’s why this hurts so much.<\/p>\n
“But we cannot allow our own birds to be affected by rescuing. Where do you draw the line?<\/p>\n
“The thought that there are going to be birds out there now that we can’t rescue, that won’t make it or will suffer… it’s heartbreaking. It really is.”<\/p>\n
Cox highlighted the recent rescue of a tawny owl from a chimney that involved a 128-mile drive: “Everything is self-funded and it can be hundreds of pounds for a single bird by the time you factor in fuel, vets and food.<\/p>\n
“One year it cost us over \u00a35,000 to rescue around 50 birds. That’s not money you just have lying around.<\/p>\n
“You can get a call that’s two hours away. You look at the fuel in the tank and think, how are we going to do this?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife sanctuary is to stop rescuing wild birds due to financial pressures. Sharandys Birds of Prey, based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-222241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}