The WILVOS Hotline 5441 6200 has continued to receive over 400 phone calls a month for orphaned and injured wildlife. Our amazing group of volunteers record all their calls and this is a story in itself. We can see what is happening out there in the...
The weekly promotion of the WILVOS 5441 6200 Hotline in our local newspapers began back in March 2005. Sandra Whiting wrote a lovely story on Jaffa the Greater Glider, and it was given an impressive double page spread, complete with photos, in the Nambour...
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 ...
