Aussie Wildlife Recovery & Emergency Preparedness

Thank you for supporting our urgent work for wildlife.

What we collectively achieved in 2025 was staggering:

• Over 160,000 native animals were assisted who were in urgent need of rescue
• Opened two new wildlife recovery centres
• Answered 234,000 rescue calls
• Fueled our lifesaving fleet of Wildlife Ambulances across a staggering 270,000 kms
• Lodged 10 submissions to Government calling upon urgent support for Australian wildlife
• Supported over 60 Australian wildlife groups involved in the preservation of Australian habitats and species.

Your support over the past year is helping us make a very direct and tangible difference - both for individual lives, and for the future of their species in the wild.

For tiny joeys like the orphaned antechinus (pictured), a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia, and one of five orphans currently in care with WIRES volunteer Tracy, your support is providing daily specialist Biolac formula. Soon, she'll be weaned onto finely chopped mealworms, insectivore mix, and some native flowers, fruits and leaves before getting ready for release. As a species deeply vulnerable to habitat loss (they often live in the hollows of trees), your support has been a critical safeguard for the future of their species.

Late last year, we also started working with local councils, schools, businesses and community groups to plant and cultivate Wildlife Foodbanks. Wildlife carers often spend hours a day searching for native foliage and browse, and this is getting harder and harder to do, as more native areas are cleared for development.

We've so far planted more than 7,000 native trees with a local council near Sydney, whilst last month we joined with Sydney Wildlife Rescue and another council south-west of Sydney, to plant an additional 500 native shrubs and trees. 

This is just part of a long-term program supporting the health and nutrition of rescued native animals!

Thanks again for being such a vital source of protection and help for Australian wildlife.

This year marked an important milestone for WIRES - we launched a specialist recovery facility for injured raptors! 

Every year we receive around 1,700 calls for injured raptors, and yet birds of prey are extremely difficult to rehabilitate. They often need specialised care, followed by vast, circular flight aviaries so they can regain muscle and wing strength before they can be successfully returned to the wild. 

This specialist facility is named it Mullyang, which means Wedge-tailed Eagle in the local Gundungurra language. 

The facility is undergoing an extensive range of essential maintenance and upgrades, making sure it is fully equipped for the rehabilitation of injured raptors, and other local native species needing specialist care.  

We look foward to updating you on the magnificant species that will learn to spread their wings and soar once more - thanks to your support! 

From country to city – you're helping give rescued wildlife their second chance.  

Still on the topic of lifesaving wildlife facilities, we also recently co-launched the WIRES Native Animal Recovery Centre in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

A facility has actually existed near the site for over two decades, but it recently received a significant upgrade, in collaboration with the New South Wales government, WIRES and Randwick City Council. It’s a great example of the protection and support we can provide local wildlife when we work together!  

The purpose-built facility supports the work of WIRES volunteers and now includes nine possum enclosures, three specialist bird enclosures and a pre-release flight aviary. Among the first wildlife patients to attend the facility were a ring tailed possum, a brush-tailed possum, some rainbow lorikeets and two juvenile ibis – the very bird that helped sparked the birth of WIRES 40 years ago!  

Thank you for your support. You are helping to provide rescued native animals with a second chance of life in the wild, and on their behalf we are very grateful.