Wildlife Volunteers 
Christmas is a time to help our wildlife(0)
In recent months there has been a great increase in orphaned and injured animals being reported on the WILVOS hotline. It always makes me so aware of the value of this 24 hour a day, 365 days a year rescue number for distressed wildlife.
It is always a challenge to find enough people to man the [...]
Lock up those cats
Once again our WILVOS hotline received a call for an injured animal. This time it was a glider — maybe a sugar glider, maybe a squirrel glider. It doesn’t really matter which one it is, gliders are fast reaching extinction on the coast and hinterland areas. Yet it is so simple to prevent the extermination [...]
Wildlife: a changing climate is not their only concern
I wish that we could blame the decline of our Australian native species on one major influence such as climate change, but unfortunately that is not the only problem facing our wildlife.
Human impact, in many forms, have been the direct culprit from the moment humans stepped onto this beautiful country. As the population has increased [...]
Wasting Wildlife
As a wildlife carer I am always saddened by anything that negatively affects a country’s native animal population. Unfortunately, it’s usually our species that is the crux of the problem.
I was recently appalled when watching a television program on the Galapagos Islands. To see the amount of waste created by the increased visitors to the [...]
