Rehabilitate Wallabies & Other Native Wildlife

Remember our report back in November last year on The Wombat Warrior?

After all the battles Mulan won when only a little joey, she has continued to thrive and has now begun her rehab phase in the Sydney Wildlife Rehabilitation facility.

Rehab for some animals has many stages as they are in rehab for quite a long time. Mulan first started in a small secure enclosure that she was unable to escape from and also included plenty of artificial shelter and protection from the elements. In this enclosure Mulan started off living in the pouch she had been sleeping in at her carers house and over time, started to dig burrows and rely on the safety of the pouch less and less and the burrow more.

Once completely independent of the pouch, the next phase for Mulan was a larger enclosure with no artificial sheltering except to protect any supplementary food from the elements.

Before this could happen, the large enclosure needed to be completely cleaned out as it was full of weeds, abandoned fencing, carpeting, old shelters and plenty of rubbish. For such a large transformation, we needed to ensure we had the right tools and plenty of resources to complete the task at hand. So immense was this task, it took place over several working bees and lots of people power to get the enclosure ready for the next phase of Mulan's rehabilitation.

To provide plenty of natural food for Mulan to eat, we needed to purchase and lay turf on a portion of the enclosure and allow it to grow prior to her taking up residence. This would ensure the grass was established enough and continued to provide natural food for her.

About an hour after moving in to her new enclosure she showed us how ready she was by starting to dig a burrow into one of the large dirt mounds. She has now dug 3 burrows throughout the enclosure to suit her needs. She can sometimes be seen basking in the sun amongst the bushes at the entrance of one of her burrows.

She has adapted really well to this phase of her rehabilitation. She is now rarely seen out during the day and if she is out and gets a fright, she retreats straight back to her burrow to hide.

Mulan now weights a whopping 12kgs and will remain in care until she reaches around 20kgs.  

Mulan would like to thank you for your ongoing donations as without them, she would not have such a interactive enclosure enabling her to learn all the natural behaviours she needs to master before returning to the wild.