To report a population emergency, please contact WAIF on

(02)9456 0452

If you have a single injured animal please call your local care group. 

For care group phone numbers contact your local council,  national parks authority or check the White Pages under Wildlife.

Wildlife welfare covers a wide spectrum from the rescue of a baby possum to the rescue of a million oil-soaked seabirds.

 

In most areas rescue and care of individual animals is handled well by trained carers.  At the other end of the spectrum big organisations like IFAW and WWF have specialist teams which can be mobilised.  In the middle of the spectrum there is less coverage; situations which are big enough to swamp local carers but not big enough to mobilise a world-wide rescue team.  It is this area that WAIF aims to provide a support service.

 

Typical mid-range problems may include:

·           a flying fox colony hit by a heat wave with 3,000 dying bats

·           a forest being hit by bushfire

·           a wetlands flooded with paint

 

In these cases the local carers are swamped trying to rescue affected wildlife without time to call in re-enforcements or feed or rest themselves.  Then - still exhausted – they have to cope with caring for hundreds of extra animals.

 

WAIF can assist with disaster-recovery backup.  A single call can alert the WAIF team who can then organise help from carers further away, arrange transport of animals out and supplies in, support ground crews with food, etc. and assist sourcing of funds to support the surviving animals.

 

Some care groups have to face a particular situation, e.g., bush fire, many times and have developed state-of-the-art emergency protocols.

 

Anyone wishing to set up disaster recovery plans and training can contact WAIF and be put in touch with experienced people.

 

Those with well-developed plans are welcome to contact WAIF and have their plans and contact details or web links added to our site.

 

Anyone who is interested in the project please contact WAIF on 02 9456 0452 or International +61 2 9456 0452.

Wildlife Assistance & Information Foundation