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Strong winds and heavy rain can put wildlife under stress.

How you can help:

After the storm has passed and it is safe to do so please check under trees for fallen chicks, nests or injured birds. There have also been many flying-foxes entangled in backyard fruit tree netting, made worse this year by the severe natural food shortages up and down the east coast of Australia. If you see an injured young or adult flying-fox please do not touch, call WIRES immediately for assistance 1300 094 737. read more

Congratulations to everyone who entered our 2017 competition and especially to our three prizewinners, Mary-Lou, Teneale and John, take a look at their amazing entries, we think you will agree all three were worthy winners. read more

During periods of extended high temperatures you can help local wildlife by providing containers of fresh, cool water. Make sure you have a few sticks or stones in bowls or containers so that if small creatures fall in they can make it back out. Where possible refresh the water frequently throughout the day.  read more

Open for entries from 13th January, 2017. To enter you simply have to like and then private message your wildlife images to WIRES facebook page. You can also register to receive emails notifying you of the finalists and the competition winners.   read more

While most native animals are well adapted to changes in climatic conditions they can still suffer during heatwaves.  Animals can cope with extremes in temperatures they are used to, but if these extremes are unusual for a particular area the animals there will struggle.  read more

We have seen a dramatic increase in underweight and abandoned flying-fox pups during early November.

The pups are being abandoned due to a shortage of natural food along the NSW coast, a combination of fewer flowering eucalypts and fruiting trees this season and the ongoing deforestation around coastal areas of NSW. read more

WIRES is calling for help to feed the large number of juvenile native animals that have been recently rescued and is inviting native animals lovers from across NSW to give to the WIRES Food Fund.

WIRES CEO Leanne Taylor said that from now and right through Summer, WIRES volunteers will be feeding hundreds of hungry young native birds and animals to ensure their survival - and the rescue and assistance calls from the public just keep on coming. read more

It is important that everyone who visits WIRES website is able to access information quickly and easily. It is especially important to ensure everyone is able to find out how to call WIRES to quickly make a report about native wildlife requiring assistance.    read more

In the past financial year WIRES received a record number of calls for rescue advice and assistance, over 77,600 calls in 12 months!  In the next 3 months 25,000 animals are expected to need help. We can assist them, with your support Leanne Taylor, CEO of WIRES, reports a rise in calls for rescue advice and assistance over recent years. In the last 12 months WIRES recorded over 10% more requests for help than the year before. 

The majority of our rescue calls take place in the spring and summer seasons.  read more

We are currently receiving an increased volume of calls about young flying-foxes needing help. The main locations of concern are in the east, inner west and Penrith areas of Sydney where there seems to be the most reports of animals in distress. read more