Our WILVOS 5441 6200 Hotline gets to experience ‘clusters’ of calls. Different species, at the same time each year, become casualties of human impact on the landscape. Our backyard swimming pools are death traps to many native animals. Birds fly into those...
Over the past weeks our WILVOS 5441 6200 Hotline continues to receive many calls for rainbow lorikeets. Unfortunately, this is not unusual during the warm weather. Over recent years there has been a seasonal recording of cases of Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome. LPS,...
WILVOS do get some interesting phone calls. Someone phoned on the 5441 6200 Hotline worried about how lawn grub poisoning would affect the native wildlife. Poisons of any type are devastating for our wildlife. Of course, as with rat baits, the manufacturers say...
With everyone in lockdown for the Easter Holidays, we expected our WILVOS 5441 6200 Hotline would be much quieter. (Where were the Bilby Easter Eggs?) There were less fishing line entanglements and road accident victims but our volunteers were still kept busy. With ...
It is important in these times to have some cheery news. It is supposed to be most helpful to stay with routine in stressful times, but no one seems to have reminded the media of this. Entertaining nightly television shows are replaced by tales of doom and gloom,...
Firstly, thank you Kerry Brown. You can be justifiably proud of producing the Sunshine Valley Gazette, a publication that has always been informative, educational, optimistic and entertaining. Welcome Tanya and Cameron – we look forward to many more years of...
