Wildlife care

• Rescue
during
bushfires and
other disaster
events
 Education for conservation

• Koalas on the
peninsula are
10x more
likely to
endure dog
attack
• Feather tail
gliders newly
discovered in
Frankston
A common resident on the peninsula in every home,
often rescued from cat attack
• Psittacine
Beak and
feather
disease,
common on
the
peninsula
• Key species
• Threatened species
• Intelligence equal to
primate apes
 Removing pinkies from pouches
• Never
pull
pinkie
off the
teat ,
you’ll
fracture
their jaw
Ensure you cut the
teat between the
mother and the
forceps, leaving the
forceps attached,
this ensures the
pinkie does not suck
in the teat.
• Australasian Owlet Nightjar
Langwarrin to Portsea
• Sugar
glider
rescued
after cat
attack
Our rescuers are often called to
tricky situations
Statewide
AWARE helps
out with rescue
Burns on a flying fox wing -
superficial
Partial thickness burns
-deep and painful
Full thickness burns- nerves have
been destroyed
• IT CANNOT BE EMPHASISED
ENOUGH, THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW
THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE BURN
UNTIL THE END OF THE SECOND
WEEK.

• IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT THE DEAD

SKIN LIFTS AND THE TRUE DAMAGE
IS SEEN.

• Therefore all wildlife involved in

bushfire should come into care
Photo courtesy Anakie CFA
All koala burns never
look bad at the time,
until later
Progression of burns on koala feet
Admission
Day
13
Day
3

Day
26
Babies need to be feed and
rehydrated
Photo courtesy of CFA
Photo courtesy of CFA
Our New seabird enclosure
Little penguin in Moult
Golden Rules for injured wildlife
• Keep them warm, dark & quiet
• Remember it is a wild animal that is
terrified of YOU
• No matter how calm it seems, its stressed.
• Smoke inhalation causes pneumonia in
wildlife.
• Call AWARE to request pick up at bushfire
sites
• AWARE rescuers are fully trained
24/7 wildlife rescue hotline

0412433727