The Northern Rivers region of NSW is one of Australia’s biodiversity hotspots and home to many of the nation’s unique, rare and threatened animals. It is also home to some of the most active wildlife care groups in NSW who urgently need more support to provide swift and efficient rescue, treatment, rehabilitation, and release of our wildlife.

The threats to wildlife in our region come from many sources, including a changing climate (floods & fires), demographic factors, habitat destruction, land clearing and degradation. Car strikes and predation by introduced species are significant threats.

The NRWN is made up of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation service providers licensed by the NSW Government, wildlife hospitals, veterinarians with a special interest in wildlife, and environmental conservation organisations who are active across the 7 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the Northern Rivers. These LGAs are Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, Kyogle, Richmond Valley and Clarence Valley.

Organisations who form the Northern Rivers Wildlife Network are: Australian Seabird & Turtle Rescue; Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital; Currumbin Wildlife Hospital; Friends of the Koala; North Coast Local Land Services; Northern Rivers Wildlife Carers; Northern Rivers Wildlife Hospital; Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers; Vitality Vetcare; Wildlife Heroes, Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife; WIRES Clarence Valley; and WIRES Northern Rivers.