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CSAM

  • The Paca pour demain association is going to open near Cannes, with community support, the second wildlife care center in the region.

  • This space will be "neither a refuge, nor a reserve" and its mission will be "to release injured animals as quickly as possible, without human impregnation and in the environment most favorable to their reintegration", summarizes the association. .

Broken wing, broken leg or small fallen from the nest… To the west of the Alpes-Maritimes, a real hospital will soon be able to treat wild animals found injured.

“Until now, only one care center in Paca, managed by the Bird Protection League in Buoux, in the Vaucluse, could collect them.

In May, we will open one in Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne ”, near Cannes, explains to

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Hélène Bovalis, president of the Paca association for tomorrow, which will be responsible for overseeing this structure.

Sparrows, swifts, corvids, small raptors, bats, hedgehogs, red squirrels, protected reptiles ... "It is estimated that each year in the department, 400 animals are discovered in difficulty and are poorly managed", specifies the person in charge.

Especially since it is forbidden for an individual (except in case of exemption) to collect, hold and transport species of wild fauna.

The future clinic will allow the public "but also firefighters, motorway companies, forest guards and even hunters, who are also among the discoverers of these injured animals", according to Hélève Bovalis, to find an appropriate response.

"Release them as soon as possible"

The Alpes-Maritimes Health Center (CSAM) will be "neither a refuge, nor a reserve" and its mission will be "to release them as quickly as possible, without human impregnation and in the most favorable environment for them. reintegration ”, specifies the association.

Concretely, it will work with "a referring health veterinarian" based in Nice who will be consulted remotely or who will intervene directly on site.

"And the goal is also to create a network of relay veterinarians who will be able to provide emergency care and radios with convalescence and, if necessary, rehabilitation in Saint-Cézaire-sur-Saigne", further details Hélène Bovalis.

The future hall of mammals - CSAM

The CSAM, set up over more than 120 m2 in a former school provided by the municipality, will benefit, in addition to two treatment rooms, one for birds and the other for mammals, from an outdoor aviary.

"We are launching a call for patrons ready to help us"

It will employ a manager and a “capacity” (holder of a certificate issued by the prefecture) who will provide care.

"We would need 200,000 euros to be at full power from the opening," indicates the president of the Paca association for tomorrow.

Communities should confirm their financial support to us and we are also appealing to private patrons who would be ready to help us.

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As part of the Pays de Grasse Ecological Transition Contract (CTE), the project also received support from the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Loïc Dombreval (LREM), president of the “Animal condition” study group of the National Assembly.

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