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If you find an injured or sick native animal please contact your local wildlife rescue group. These volunteers are trained to care for and will come and pick up the animal to nurse it back to health.

While you wait follow their advice - keep the animal warm in a quiet, dark place, handle it only as much as absolutely necessary and do not offer it food or water unless advised by the carer.

ACT

  • Wildlife Carers Group Inc
    Wildlife Carers Group is a volunteer service, dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife in the ACT.
    24 hour Emergency Hotline 0406 056 099

  • RSPCA Wildlife
    RSPCA Wildlife volunteers work with RSPCA-ACT Inc to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife in the ACT.

NSW

Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services (Sydney Wildlife)
This volunteer organisation is dedicated to caring for Sydney's sick, injured or orphaned native fauna.

Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES)

The Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES) is the largest wildlife rescue organisation in New South Wales.

Sydney, Central Coast and the Hunter

Mid North Coast and Northern NSW

Southern NSW

Western NSW

  • Lachlan Wildlife Carers
    'Revenue', Condobolin 2877
  • Rescue and Rehabilitation of Australian Native Animals (RRANA)
    PO Box 5089, South Broken Hill
    Phone: 04 2920 4416
  • RSPCA Australian Capital Territory Inc.
  • Sunraysia Wildlife Carers Group
    PO Box 189, Gol Gol 2738
  • Wildlife Carers Network (Central West)
    PO Box 787, Mudgee 2850
    Phone: 02 6374 4286.
  • WIRES branches in Western NSW

NT

  • Wildcare Inc is a non-profit organisation, which provides a support network for carers of sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. The primary objective is to rehabilitate and release these animals back into their natural habitat and to raise community awareness concerning the care and conservation of native animals.
    Phone: 08 8988 6121
  • Wildlife Rescue
    Emergency Hotline 0409 090 840
    Large or dangerous animals phone: 1800 453 210

QLD

  • Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
    24 hour Emergency Hotline 1300 130 372
  • Granite Belt Wildlife Carers Inc
    Based in Stanthorpe, SE Qld. Looking after animals specific to the Granite Belt area. Rescue boundaries are the NSW border, Texas, Allora, Warwick, Killarney, Liston and Stanthorpe.
  • Wildlife Wanderer's Carers Group Association Inc.
    24 hour service out of Nanango; covering; Benarkin, Brooklands, Blackbutt, Bunya Mountains, Cooyar, Goodger, Yarraman, Maidenwell, Kingaroy, Goomeri, Bell, Kumbia, Crawford, Memerambi, Nanango, Wooroolin, Wattlecamp, Tingoora, Kilkivan, Tansey, Wondai, Coolabunia, Ellesmere
    Emergency Hotline: 0447 196 704
  • Redlands Wildlife Rescue
  • ONARR Orphan Native Animal Rear and Release
    Rescues, rears, rehabilitates and releases orphaned wildlife in the greater SE Qld area
  • FAUNA Fostercare of Australia's Unique Native Animals Association Inc
  • Far North Queensland Wildlife Rescue
  • Bat Rescue Inc
    Cares for sick, injured and orphaned bats - Sunshine Coast and Brisbane
  • ARROW Australian Rescue and Rehabilitation of Wildlife Association Inc
    Rescue, care and release sick, injured or orphaned native wildlife
    Esk: Phone Monica: (07) 5424 1997
    Fernvale/Wivenhoe Pocket: Phone Glendell: (07) 5426 7879 or 0413 453 722
    Gatton: Phone Sarah: 07 5462 1934
    Hattonvale/Laidley: Phone Tania: (07) 5465 6865
    Ipswich: Phone Fiona & Brett: (07) 3281 1351
    Rosewood: Phone Ann: 07 5464 2070
    Toogoolawah: Phone Kay & Tony: (07) 5423 1963

SA

TAS

  • Wildlife Care
    24 hour Emergency Hotline: (03) 6233 6556

VIC

  • Help for Wildlife is a 24 Hour State-wide Wildlife Emergency Service which is a voluntary, community based, non-profit, non-political organization established in 1995 to assist with distressed wildlife on all levels.
  • Wildlife Victoria is a state-wide volunteer wildlife rescue and rehabilitation organisation who run a 24-hour emergency phone number for people who have come across injured, sick or orphaned wildlife.
  • Wildlife Rescue & Information Network Inc. Rescue WRIN
    WRIN inc. is an organisation dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of native fauna found injured, sick or orphaned anywhere in Victoria. Its members are all volunteers.
  • BADGAR Emergency Wildlife Rescue
    24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the BADGAR team rescuers work tirelessly to help restore the balance for our wildlife that has been injured, orphaned or is sick
  • Wildlife Rescue North East Victoria (NEV)
    NEV is a group of volunteers who give their time and patience to care for and rehabilitate thousands of injured and sick native animals each year.
  • RACV Wildlife Connect
    Following the bushfires, RACV established Wildlife Connect where callers are connected to a volunteer wildlife carer for help and advice on injured wildlife found on the roads.
    Phone: 13 11 11
  • Wildlife Rescue Emergency Service
    rescue service for injured wildlife in central Victoria

WA

  • F.A.W.N.A (WA) Inc. (Fostering and Assistance for Wildlife Needing Aid)
  • WILDCARE Helpline
    The Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation runs the WILDCARE Helpline. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, diverting to after hours numbers at nights and weekends, to provide immediate assistance. Volunteers handle telephone inquiries and refer callers to one of 340 registered wildlife rehabilitators who take care of the animal before releasing it back into its native Habitat.
  • Native Animal Rescue
    Native Animal Rescue support vets will treat injured native wildlife for no charge and arrange for a wildlife carer to collect the animal for rehabilitation and release. Find the nearest support vet on this list.
  • Native Arc
    Caring for injured, orphaned and sick wildlife with the hopes of rehabilitating them and successfully returning them to their natural habitat.

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