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Name: Brendan Price

Address:  “Cloch�n”,  Tobergregan, Garristown,  Co.Dublin,  Ireland.

Telephone:  +3531-8354370 (work)  -8354487 (home).

Date of Birth: 31^st May 1954.

Marital Status:  Married with two children.

Qualifications:  C.U.S.(Marist Fathers), Leeson St., (1971 hons.);  B. Agricultural Science, National University Ireland; Member Biology Institute Ireland; Euro Pro Biol.

Brendan and his wife Mary have two young children Cormac and Orla, Brendan runs the Irish Seal Sanctuary as a full time volunteer from it's Garristown base in Fingal.

Brendan is an agriculture scientist and member Irish and European Institutes of Biology, pioneer of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Sanctuary and developing with the Fingal Local Authority a National Marine Conservation Centre for Ireland.

Brendan has contested Seanad Eireann on 4 occasions, rising progressively higher each time and is now presenting himself for the Euro Elections, with the full backing of his Seanad team and cabinet of advisers. He has pledged, when elected, his MEP salary, surplus to average industrial wage, to sustain the work of the Irish Seal Sanctuary, until such time that the Government honours it's promise to seed-fund the Marine conservation Centre and then to other marginalised conservation/community initiatives.

Further education:
Diploma Wild Animal Management (National Extension College Cambridge);
Diploma Conservation of Endangered Species (Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust);
Marine Mammal Rescue and Rehabilitation (Irish Seal Sanctuary and British Divers Marine Life Rescue);
Wildlife Oil Spill Response (International Bird Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre).

Awards:
Oidhreacht Aware (National Environment Award);
Animal Welfare Person of the Year;
Environmental Endeavour  Award;
Saoirse na Mara (Freedom of the Sea)

Career: From the age of 14 he worked a variety summer and hildoliday jobs through school and college (tourism, buing, farming, factories, fishing, landscaping et al.)

After qualifying in Agriculture he joined Government Valuations Office for a year and subsequently went to Dublin Zoo as a keeper for 10 years.

During his time in the zoo, he introduced Animal Management Training; represented keepers on the Union Branch Committee; drafted first Union Environmental Policy; changed Zoo Constitution to reflect Conservation and Education; secured Government Enquiry into Dublin Zoo (the forerunner of future Government Enquiries), at cost to his own career.

He subsequently financed and ran first cruelty case against Dublin Zoo to save last remaining elephant, and further wildlife test cases.  The Zoo Enquiry resulted in the current investment and expansion scheme at Dublin Zoo.

During the years  that followed, till publication of the Enquiry and his validation, he founded the Irish Seal Sanctuary (ISS) and Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IW&DG) and continue to serve on the B.O.D., ISS.  During this period he pioneered and developed Marine Mammal Rescue in Ireland; established Rehabilitation Centre, which has returned c. 250 seals to the sea in Ireland’s largest wildlife and community events; secured the Irish Whale and Dolphin Sanctuary, bringing the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to Ireland and setting the course for the development of Sustainable Marine Eco Tourism; developed a National Strandings Network and Oil Spill Response for wildlife. He continues to work with the ISS, Fingal Local Authority and Government to provide a Marine Conservation Centre for Ireland.  In this period he helped secure Ireland’s ratification of CITES.

He organised  2 National Exhibitions for Department of Environment and Marine Institute (UNYO) – “Seals the Enchanted People” and “Land Dividing, Sea Uniting”, amongst ENFO’s most successful to date.  He continues to visit schools and develop school projects as a pilot member of the National Heritage Visitors to Schools Scheme.

He contributes regularly to national wildlife and environmental policy and through the Embassies on a variety of international wildlife issues.  He is a regular commentator in the media on wildlife issues.  He has extensive experience in areas of wildlife conflict and conciliation.

He has contested 5 National University Ireland elections for Seanad �ireann (Ireland’s Senate), promoting the need for a National Conservation Strategy and representing the voiceless in our society.

He continues as a consultant/advisor on a variety of issues and his work has been mostly with and for the voluntary sector and Civil Society