The Christmas/New Year break can be a worrying time for native animal carers. Hopefully, wildlife carers across Australia have not had too many more patients with the increased number of cars on the road over the holidays, along with more abandoned , or just plain...
Our WILVO volunteers handling the 5441 6200 hotline have been kept busy with the severe weather lately. I wonder that all the little birds aren’t washed out of the trees in the heavy downpours. There have been numerous bedraggled, wet animals arriving into care. ...
By the time this goes to print the elections will be over and we can sit back and try to be optimistic. I would really like to think that foreign mining companies and deforestation will not further destroy Queensland over the coming years. Is it too much to hope...
As our environment is vandalized and habitat destroyed, I am just mesmerized by the antics of our Australian federal politicians. For months we have had our intelligence insulted by procrastination over diversionary tactics such as the citizenship of politicians or...
Our weather just isn’t kind to our wildlife at the moment. It’s either too cold, too hot, too dry, too wet, or too windy! It has made that baby bird season a tough struggle for the chicks. WILVOS are really looking for new wildlife carers at the moment. The more...
Sometimes I have these incredible feelings of despair as I drive around the Sunshine Coast area. There is just so much clearing of vegetation under way. This week, on the way to the Australian Wildlife Hospital at Beerwah, there were huge tracts of forest cleared...
