Your Impact
Your impact-
walking for a wilder future
Your fundraising efforts will make sure thousands of injured, orphaned and displaced native animals get the urgent rescue and immediate care they need, for a second chance of life in the wild.
For many of our most vulnerable species – your efforts will help to safeguard the future of their species in the wild!
About WIRES
WIRES has an urgent mission – we provide 24/7 emergency rescue and care for Australian native animals in need.
Backed by our dedicated volunteers, Emergency Responders and fully equipped Wildlife Ambulances in NSW, QLD and Tasmania; we receive more than 230,000 calls a year from the Australian public; and we assist over 160,000 native animals in distress.
The WIRES Wildlife Rescue Office is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Every day, WIRES receives hundreds of urgent rescue requests.
WIRES co-ordinates over 3,000 volunteers to help rescue and rehabilitate native animals.
We have a growing team of Emergency Responders with fully equipped Wildlife Ambulances.
the change you'll make
We do deal with a lot of loss. The reason we keep doing it is because of an overwhelming passion for Australian native animals. And, once you've released one of these animals back into its own natural habitat, that's the prize. That's the gift that we get for ourselves.
- Morgan, WIRES Volunteer, Hawkesbury
It's the best feeling in the world to rehabilitate and release a native animal. You're giving a second chance back to a native animal. I monitor it closely and I'm almost at 1,000 animals released back into the wild and that's wonderful - without WIRES those animals wouldn't have had a chance
- Tracy, WIRES Volunteer - Blue Mountains
When an orphaned joey, like Margot the little Wallaroo above, comes into our care, they’ll often be so severely dehydrated we’ll need to provide them with subcutaneous fluids. This is usually the case when their mother has been dead for some time.
We then give them a warm bottle of specialist formula. It’s hard to imagine the trauma they’ve gone through, so we focus on their most immediate needs - making sure they're no longer feeling pain or hunger or fear.
- Rylee, WIRES Volunteer, Far West
