Wildlife Answers

20/07/2023

635 signatures are still needed! Provide Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital emergency funds to keep saving sick & injured wildlife

18/03/2023

We need your help!

We know you care about the rescue of critically injured and orphaned wildlife. Do you ever wish you could do more but due to everyday commitments feel it’s just not possible?

Wildcare is running a raffle to raise much needed funds to purchase specialised food and first aid supplies, rescue equipment as well as fuel vouchers to help our volunteers with costs associated with transporting injured wildlife to the closest wildlife hospital, which may be over an hour away.

Every year our trained volunteers respond to over 35,000 calls from the community to help wildlife in distress, who are badly injured, trapped, sick or displaced. This also includes wildlife effected by bushfires, floods, land clearing and extreme weather. They all need critical care.

A volunteer’s work can be heartbreaking and costly, we do it because our wildlife need us but volunteers can only do their roles with the help of the community.

Please help us by purchasing as many tickets as you can afford, and by sharing this raffle👇 with your friends and family. We have had some AMAZING prizes donated, with a total value just under $5000 and with only 1000 tickets available.

OUR FUNDRAISING TARGET IS $10,000

To purchase raffle tickets: https://rafflelink.com.au/saveinjuredwildlife?fbclid=IwAR1g5gM21DEPuBV43RYCYSJGSSlTQHQQSyvBqUrVE6RsPmus5J19Q32lErE

Website: www.wildcare.org.au

To follow us on Insta: www.instagram.com/wildcareaustralia

📷 Renee

01/02/2023

Look out for sick lorikeets.

Lorikeet paralysis syndrome (LPS) is a seasonal syndrome that has been occurring in eastern Australia for at least 10 years during the summer months. This su...

20/11/2022

Did you know that Ibis' have learned how to safely eat cane toads?

These underrated birds are a key player in the evolution of Australia's native species to coexist with and control the invasive cane toad.

When cane toads are threatened by predators, they excrete toxin from the paratoid glands on the back of their neck to poison their attacker and if they are stressed enough, they will empty the glands through this process.

Ibis have learned to use the cane toads' own defence strategy against them. Ibis will pick up cane toads and fling them about, causing them to become stressed and expel all their toxin. The birds then rinse the toads off in water, or wipe them in the wet grass to remove the poison, before swallowing them whole!

It's very encouraging to see that native animals are learning how to cope with cane toads. One day, we are confident that native animals will be able to manage cane toads on their own. Until then, we still need to give them a helping hand through toad busting activities.

The 'stress and wash' method of eating cane toads has also recently been observed in Cattle egrets, Purple swamphens and Moorhens.

19/09/2022

01/09/2022

Ridiculous irony

https://fb.watch/fg5MCDTp7g/

14/08/2022

https://www.facebook.com/190541094292456/posts/5694337373912773/?d=n

Thank you Logan City Council!

A very important aspect of the role of wildlife volunteers is to educate the community on the ways in which we can all help to protect our local wildlife. It has long been Wildcare's hope to create an informative booklet highlighting easy ways we can all help.

With the incredible support of Logan City Council's EnviroGrants Program, we have been able to bring this idea to fruition. We are so excited to have now received the printed booklets which we hope provides practical solutions to many of the day-to-day challenges our wildlife face in our urban environments.

A big thank to the wonderful Council staff who have supported the project!

15/05/2022

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-05-15/biodiversity-app-threatened-species-crisis-election-agenda/101052636?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

Researchers have created a new web-based tool that allows users to find the threatened species in their electorate and then petition their local member, in order to put biodiversity loss on the election agenda.