FUNDRAISING APPEAL

The Wildlife Ark Trust has launched a fundraising appeal to complete the vaccine research.

The importance of the vaccine research project has now also been endorsed at government level internationally by

Denmark’s Nature Agency which stated that the squirrelpox vaccine will be “an important management tool”

Norway's Ministry of the Environment which congratulates the Wildlife Ark Trust on "the discovery of a candidate for an effective squirrelpox virus vaccine"

Austria's Federal Ministry of Health which lends its “moral support to the work of generating an effective vaccine”

Estonia's Ministry of the Environment which supports this "vital cause"

Poland's General Directorate of Environment Protection.

Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment which “highly values the current work, and future plans, of the Wildlife Ark Trust for the conservation of the red squirrel”

The Netherlands’ Director of Nature and Biodiversity wrote “I am in no doubt that it is extremely important to find an effective vaccine to protect the red squirrels against SQPV. I therefore wish you every success in your continuing research”

Ireland's National Park and Wildlife Service whose Dr. Ferdia Marnell stated. "The development of an effective, targeted vaccine thet could help protect wild red squirrel populations would be a significant step forward in red squirrel conservation and I commend the work of the Wildlife Ark Trust in this regard."

Germany's Federal Environment Agency which wrote that, “The expansion of the squirrelpox virus constitutes a dangerous threat to European red squirrel populations. Your intensive commitment to developing a suitable vaccine is very welcome!”