Backyard Buddies

Buddy in trouble

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.

There are wildlife rehabilitation and rescue groups in each state and territory.

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.
  
  02 6287 8133 business hours
  0413 459 031 after hours
  
  http://www.rspcawildlife.org.au
  http://www.rspca-act.org.au 
  

NSW

Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES)

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

Call 1800 641 188 or visit the WIRES website to get phone numbers and website links for your local branch.

Contacts for other wildlife rehabilitation organisations are listed below.

Northern NSW

• Australian Seabird Rescue
• For Australian Wildlife Needing Aid (FAWNA)
• Friends of the Koala
• Friends of Waterways (Gunnedah)
  02 6742 1826
• Great Lakes Wildlife Rescue
  c/-Huntley, The Lakes Way, Bungwahl 2423
• Koala Preservation Society of NSW
• Northern Tablelands Wildlife Carers
• Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers
• Wildlife Carers of Glen Innes
  02 6732 2771
• WIRES branches in Northern NSW

Southern NSW

• Looking After Our Kosciuszko Orphans (LAOKO)
• Native Animal Network Association
• Wildcare Queanbeyan
• WIRES branches in Southern NSW

Sydney, Hunter and Illawarra

• Hunter Koala Preservation Society
• Native Animal Trust Fund
• Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans (ORRCA)
• Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services
• Wildlife Aid
  PO Box 619, Singleton 2330
• Wildlife Animal Rescue and Care (Wildlife ARC)
  PO Box 2308 Gosford 2250
  Phone: 0500 551 121.
• WIRES branches around Sydney, Hunter and Illawarra

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.
  
  08 8988 6121
  
  
• Wildlife Rescue Emergency Hotline 0409 090 840
  
  
• Large or dangerous animals 1800 453 210

QLD

• Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
  24 hour Emergency Hotline 07 5485 354
  
  
• 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

SA

• Native Animal Network Inc.
  08 8388 6944, 08 8398 3117 or 08 8388 4556
  
  
• Bird Care and Conservation Society Inc.
  0409 984 910, 08 8390 3254 or 08 8279 4416
  
  
• Fauna Rescue of SA Inc.
  08 8289 2920, 08 8289 3775 or 08 8326 3797
  
  
• FaunaCare and Release Inc.
  08 8396 3669, 08 8244 3208 or 08 8263 0563
  
  
• South East Native Animal Rescue Network
  08 8726 8199, 08 8735 1177 or 08 8736 3228
  
  
• Kangaroo and Wildlife Rescue and Information Service
  08 8556 5464, 08 8289 3775 or 08 8388 0360
  
  
• Wildlife Welfare Organisation (SA) Inc.
  08 8555 3273, 08 8540 2156 or 08 8562 1675

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.
  
  24hour Emergency Hotline 0417 380 687
  
  http://www.helpforwildlife.com

• 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.
  
  Emergency Hotline 13 000 WILDLIFE (13 000 94535)
  
  http://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au

• Wildlife Rescue & Information Network Inc. Rescue and
  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.
  
  Emergency Hotline 0419 356 433
  
  http://www.wrin.asn.au/

WA

• 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.
  
  24-hour emergency number (08) 9474 9055

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