The Northern Rivers is home to a passionate network of wildlife carers, and collaboration is key when animals need urgent care. Recently, with some local services temporarily unavailable, the NRWH volunteer team rallied to fill the gap, ensuring injured and displaced wildlife continued to receive the help they needed.
Our friends at Vitality Vetcare, a member of the Northern Rivers Wildlife Network, joined forces with wildlife nurse Amy Hart, NRWH directors Kim Hollis-Simpson and Dr Megan Kearney, NRWH General Manager Bronte Potts, and NRWN coordinator Helen Cahill to provide emergency care for 10 days. Operating out of the Vitality Vetcare clinic as a temporary wildlife hospital, they treated a variety of wildlife, including a kookaburra, magpies, rainbow lorikeets, a crested pigeon, a tawny frogmouth, a swamp rat, a brown tree snake, a barn owl, a black flying fox, a mountain brushtail possum, and several coastal carpet pythons.
We are incredibly grateful to our amazing volunteers, the NRWN, and the Vitality Vetcare team. It’s inspiring to see organisations come together to support wildlife in need!
