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IBRRC international
intern: Jeremy Simar
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Jeremy Simar, 26,
from Lille, France received his Baccalaureate of Biology in
1994 and spent the following two years earning a Sciences
of Life diploma. In 1998 he received his degree of Organisms
Biology and Mastery of Populations and Ecosystems Biology
In 1999, he received his postgraduate certificate of Behavioral
Animal Biology from Paris XIII.
Jeremy has held a number of internship positions
in France that included a study of black woodpeckers, an inventory
in a heron nature reserve, a study of the effect of the spatial
dispersion of ant foraging, a study of the spatial distribution
of geese(Brabta bernicla) compared with their food distribution,
an inventory of wetlands functional characterization and recommendation
for their conservation along the Scorff River as well as an
inventory of the different ecological habitats on the Gaillec
River.
Jeremy met the IBRRC team when he volunteered
at the Erika oil spill in January 2000 in Brittany, France.
It was there that our team noticed Jeremy’s professionalism
and commitment to the environment. Jeremy was invited to join
the IFAW/IBRRC international response team in Cape Town, South
Africa in June 2001 where he helped care for 20,000 oiled
African Penguins.
Jeremy began his four-month internship at IBRRC’s
northern California center in May 2001.
“This experience gave me the opportunity
to train with a team that is internationally recognized, not
only in oiled birds, but birds with all kinds of injuries,”
says Jeremy. “I am lucky to be receiving training in
the rehabilitation of aquatic birds from wetlands,
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recognized, not only in oiled birds, but birds
with all kinds of injuries,” says Jeremy. “I am
lucky to be receiving training in the rehabilitation of aquatic
birds from wetlands,shores and the sea and am also learning
how to save orphan birds as well,” he said.
“As an ecologist by training, I’ve realized
how important rehabilitation is in a world where often the
legal protection, or the awareness, doesn't prevent the human
destabilization of the frail ecological balance,” states
Jeremy.
“Animal rehabilitation may be the most certain
and direct way to struggle against the direct or indirect
attacks against wildlife that occur today. I wish that everyone
was able to gain the experience of being able to release a
bird they have successfully treated, as I have at IBRRC,”
adds Jeremy.
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