The manual "Helping birds with a stick and rope", the first of its kind in the region, was presented at an interactive lecture for students and high school students in the EU info center called "A bird in the palm of my hand".
The EU info center announced that Montenegro does not have an official shelter for wild animals and that is why those who need help usually do not receive care until they fully recover and return to nature.
"If an injured animal reaches humans, care is usually taken by unprofessional individuals, unaware of the danger they expose themselves, the environment and the wild animal itself. As a result of unprofessional care, we have wild animals accustomed to humans, trapped in cages and sentenced to life imprisonment," the statement said.
It is stated that the world's rehabilitation centers for wild animals are the most frequently housed birds, that they make up 70 to 90 percent of the "patients" in these institutions.
As they said, in order to partially fill the long-term vacuum created in anticipation of the establishment of a shelter for wild animals in Montenegro, the Delegation of the European Union in Montenegro and the EU info center financially supported the production and printing of the manual "Helping birds with a stick and rope".
As they state, the manual was created on the basis of notes and drawings by Bjanka Prakljačić, a biologist and proven connoisseur of the world of birds.
“Ten years ago, I was in your shoes. I attended a lecture on birds and realized that there is no organized help for birds in our country. I decided to change that, even though I didn't have enough knowledge at the time. "I literally started to help them with a stick and rope," Bianka said at the beginning of the lecture.
The manual describes in detail what to do when you find an injured bird, what are the first steps, how to take care of it, feed it, warm it, when it is necessary to call professional help, and when the situation should be left to nature, because sometimes human intervention causes more damage.
"Over the course of ten years, about 1 thousand birds passed through my hands, from tiny ones to birds with a wingspan of three meters. "The vet I took them to can now buy a small apartment with that, I'm sure, because taking care of birds is very expensive," said Bianka.
Birds most often die due to the destruction of their habitats, human influence and pressures, which include: poisoning, wounding, injuries on roads and fences, in collisions with electric poles, wires and glass on buildings, and in many other situations caused by the human factor.
In the NGO "Center for the Protection and Study of Birds" (CZIP) they try to fight against poaching and poaching.
They said that the biggest problem is when registered hunters hunt outside the hunting season and exceed the permitted number, and they often kill species protected by law.
"In our database, we have a long list of protected species that have been killed. In Montenegro, pelicans or bald eagles are killed, of which there are only about 50 pairs left in Montenegro. We also have a problem with the illegal capture of songbirds because they are beautiful and sing beautifully People catch them and then resell them," explained Marija Šoškić from CZIP.
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