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April 2024

Celebrating National Eucalypt Day

March 23 is National Eucalypt Day, a special occasion dedicated to honouring the vital role that these magnificent trees play in Australia’s... Read More...

December 2024

NSW Koala Strategy Under Review Amidst Threat of Extinction Test

The NSW Koala Summit took place in Sydney on March... Read More...

October 2023

WIRES Snake Handling Training

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Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Return and Earn for WIRES

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Raptor Rehabilitation Centre launches

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

September is Biodiversity Month!

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Entanglements: What to Do If Wildlife Gets Trapped

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

What to Do If You See a Snake in Your Garden

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Possum in Your Roof? Here's How to Help

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wet Weather and Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wildlife and Pool Safety

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Emergency Response in the wake of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

International Women's Day Volunteer Spotlight: Shelley

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Positive change for nature?

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

What it takes to rehabilitate for the wild

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Being prepared is critical to reduce the wildlife impacts of a H5N1 outbreak in Australia

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Continuing RRANA’s Wildlife Rescue Legacy in Far West NSW

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

A 24/7 Emergency Rescue Service dedicated to wildlife - thanks to you.

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Contributes Significant Funds to Great Eastern Ranges Project

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Assists Gumbaynggirr Country Weave Roosts For Threatened Bat Species

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Why become a wildlife carer?

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES grant provides life-changing support for marine conservation

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

18 months on - the fight to protect wombats from Mange grows

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

National Volunteer Week 2024

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Saving Orla

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Rescued Koalas Mack and Gage Set Free as NSW Govt. Announces $5m Investment to Support Koalas

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Celebrating World Earth Day: The History of Environmental Action and Collaboration

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Feathers of Change: Native Duck Identification Project

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

NSW Koala Strategy Under Review Amidst Threat of Extinction

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Teams Up With SES To Save Black Swan

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Celebrating National Eucalypt Day

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES National Grants Support Heathcote Local to Landscape Project

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES and Taronga Team Up To Deliver World-Leading Platypus Facilities

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Research Grant Recipient Aims to Protect Platypus Populations

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Vet Dr. Tania Bishop's Wildlife Journey

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Securing Koala Survival: Appin Road Wildlife Crossings Fall Short, Urgent Need for Overpasses

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Untangling Wildlife: The Silent Threat of Discarded Fishing Gear

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

A Journey to Preserve: Glossy Black-Cockatoos and Unexpected Visitors

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Flying Fox Mass Death Event: WIRES' Efforts to Protect and Preserve

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Noël's Christmas Miracle

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Answering the Call of Australia’s Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Snake Handling Training

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Canberra Excludes Wildlife Rescuers from Disaster Preparedness: A Call for Action

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Coming Together to Save Pelicans After the Western Australia Oil Spill

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

$80 Million to Protect Koalas in South-West Sydney

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Safeguarding Australia's Cherished Wombats: A Compassionate Collaboration

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Joining Forces for Platypus Rescue: WIRES and Taronga Zoo's Collective Mission

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Highlights from the Australian Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2023

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Preparing for Elevated Bushfire Season

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Drones Used to Monitor Post-Release Outcomes of Koalas

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

How a Community Saved a Kangaroo Mob from Ticks

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Primary Schoolers become Wildlife Warriors

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Sophie and Oscar's Journey Back to the Wild

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Response Training for Wildlife Volunteers

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Introduces New Wildlife Rehabilitation Governance Courses in Collaboration with NPWS

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wedge-tailed Eagle crashes through windscreen

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Community Support for Post-Bushfire Recovery of Wildlife in the Greater Blue Mountains

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Research Grants Program-2023 Recipients Announced

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

National Koala Conference

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Nature Conservation Council's Bushfire Conference

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Support Stronger Nature Laws

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Helping Endangered Cockatoos: WIRES Grant Success Story

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Landmark Conservation Project Ensures The Future of The Northern Bettong

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Netting a hazard for python

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Caring motorist rescues kestrel

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wildlife Road Collisions Unveiled

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Loggerhead Turtle Release

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Tiny orphaned joey lucky to survive

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wombat joey, growing up

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Vigilant and proactive Excavator operator helps chicks

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Trapped in chicken coop

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Mystery chick

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES springs into action on native animal rescue

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

National Volunteer Week

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES EMERGENCY WILDLIFE RELIEF AND RECOVERY PLANS

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Sugar Glider

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Brushtail Possum

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Introduces Rescue Course for Sea Snakes

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Support WIRES when you shop online with PayPal

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES 2nd Wildlife Ambulance in Tasmania

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Helping feed 350 Parma Wallabies

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Tambaroora fire wildlife search and rescue

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Snake-friendly Fire and Rescue

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Corporate Workshops with WIRES

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Lesser Long-eared Bat home rescue

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Restoring Wildlife Corridors

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Limited edition wombat cake helps to support wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Satin Bowerbird chicks reunited with parents

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Orphaned Wallaroo joey

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

NSW Flood Response November 2022

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES partnership with Flight Centre Foundation takes off

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Join the fight to save wombats from mange

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Improving Animal Rescue Response Times

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Australia State of the Environment Report 2021

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Phillip Island Nature Parks National Grant Update

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Vets Beyond Borders - upskilling the veterinary sector to help wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Australian Wildlife Conservancy Project Update

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES attends the Conservation in Action Conference

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Emergency Response Team attends the Response, Recovery and Resilience Expo

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Floods and Storms - Wildlife Assistance Advice

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Flood Emergency 2022

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

University of Sydney Native Wildlife Health and Disease Research Grant Update

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Research Survey

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Yellow-bellied Glider, vocal and vulnerable

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Heat Stress in Flying-foxes - Interview with Dr. Tania Bishop

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

National Science Week: Conservation Ecology with Aussie Ark

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Koala Health Hub | Project Update

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Supporting ARC in Emergency Response Capacity Building

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Men's Sheds Helping Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Bushfire recovery update: Mid North Coast Macropod Enclosure Construction

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Australian Floods - Wildlife Assistance Advice

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

International Women’s Day 2021

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Rescue Rehabilitation and Recovery

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Official Opening of Currumbin Wildlife Hospital Extension

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

New Kangaroo Island wildlife refuge launched to protect Australia’s most endangered mammal and support bushfire recovery

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Tiny Rocky

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Superb Fairy Wren

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Ringtail possum

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Magpies

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Little Lady

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Pelican

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Shensu

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Sleepy Grumpy Wombat

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Black-Cockatoo

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Baby Kookaburra

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Australian Bushfires Impact and Recovery

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Official Opening of the Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Introduces Vaccination Grants Program for Veterinary Clinics

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Visiting Aussie Ark

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES Water for Wildlife Project

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES and AWC

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES uses bushfire donations to support University koala research

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Relief Grants Overview

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Supporting Emergency Vet Care

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES and ARC Helping Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Flying-fox Veterinary Vaccination Grant

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

COVID-19 Wildlife Rescue Advice

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Water Stations for Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

FAQs Bushfire Funding

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wallaroo rescued from suburban roof!

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

WIRES announce 3 Million Dollars for Emergency Wildlife Rescue and Care

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Over 1 Billion Animals Lost

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Help Requests

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Food, Water and Shelter for Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Update January 2020

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Wildlife Rescue Advice

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Unrelenting Fire Emergency

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Koala Rescued from Tragic Fires

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

NSW Fire Catastrophe

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Why Birds Swoop and How to Stay Safe

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Help Needed for Flying-foxes

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Emergency Fire Update

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Native animals are not pets

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Help us save wombats

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Wet Weather and Wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Young Archie finalist inspired by wildlife

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Black Swan Cygnets

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Vale Helen George

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Extreme heat causes mass deaths of keystone species

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

How to rescue an echidna

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

New Bat Rehabilitation Centre opens at Goulburn

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Chaci

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Hatching a Green Tree Snake

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Photo Montage - Lorikeet chicks

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Brown Cuckoo-Dove

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Murray River Local Rescue - Australian Hobby

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Reuniting Chicks - Magpie

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The love life of a Brush-tailed phascogale

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Blue tongue rescue

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Whistling Kite Chick

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