How Can you help?
What can you do to help?
There are many ways to help our wildlife and we get lots of calls a week with concerned Members of Public wanting to help animals in their area. If you are unable to find an answer below and are concenred about wildlife in your area. Please contact us.
💦 It’s a good time to refresh
It’s a good time to refresh any birdbaths or water containers with cold water
Our Flying Fox need your help!
Many pups are now in care at wildlife shelters and adults are searching for food and getting caught in fruit tree netting.
Litter can create so many problems
This video shows a poor Cockatoo who was caught and tangled in the string from a kite
Quick thinking Member of Public!
We received a call about a juvenile magpie that had been caught in some children's soccer goal netting.
Juvenile Wombat
This juvenile wombat was found on a path in a caravan park down in Gipplsand.
Blue Tongue Lizards
When the weather starts warming up, reptiles like the Blue-tongued lizard are waking up from their winter sleep and love to get out and bask in the sun
A baby possum on the ground.
Possum breeding season begins in winter, and baby possums (Joeys) start emerging from their mothers pouch in spring and summer.
Not the best builders - Tawny Frog Mouth
Tawny Frogmouths are not the best at making nests and this happens all too often.
Pouch checks
We can send one of our volunteer rescuers out to check their pouch for young.
Junk food is bad for ducks 😥
When you’re out and about at a lake, please remember that bread, chips, crisps, confectionery and other such junk food is bad for ducks
Swooping Season
Swooping season for Magpies and it can be very frightening! Here are some tips to avoid this happening to you.
Is it a rat or a Dusky Antichinus
So do you know what this animal is? It’s not a mouse... or a rat.... it’s a native Dusky Antichinus.
Introducing the Animal Pool Lifesaver (a.k.a. Frog Log)