Media and News Stories
Bunnings Kangaroos, South Morang - March 2010
Members of Wildlife Rescuers have worked tirelessly over the previous four years with Government agencies and other organisations and businesses in an effort to reach a satisfactory outcome for the mob of kangaroos left stranded and enclosed by commercial and residential development occurring around the McDonalds Road - Plenty Road area in South Morang.
The wildlife organisations were working towards having the kangaroos relocated. Unfortunately, as it became apparent that we might be able to succeed with the application to relocate, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) took a unilateral heavy-handed approach - without any consultation or advise to the other parties involved - and secretly culled all of the 21 healthy kangaroos that were left there.
Hey, Joey. I've Discovered the Milky Way
Sunday Herald-Sun
28th March 2010
The following is an excerpt from the article which features one of our rescuers, Sky Jackson.
THEY are unlikely milk mates, but premature babies and wildlife bubs have a special connection. The Royal Women's Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit is donating up to 300 single-use milk bottles used to feed babies each day to wildlife shelters across the state.
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Backpack-bearing honeyeaters on a mission to boost numbers
BRIDIE SMITH
The Age - May 11, 2010
AS PART of the largest captive-bred release of its kind in the state, 44 critically endangered regent honeyeaters will be released into the wild tomorrow.
The birds - all banded and 25 of them boasting ''mini backpacks'' containing a radio transmitter for researchers to track their travels - are part of a national recovery program designed to boost the species' declining numbers.
Preface from Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm by C David Coates
Isn’t man an amazing animal?
He kills wildlife by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This is in turn kills man by the millions because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer.
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals.
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man who kills so easily and so violently and yet once a year sends out cards praying for “Peace on Earth”
If you wish to be persuaded to give up eating meat, you might like to read: Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Heat-stressed possums suffer burnt feet
The Age
February 3, 2009
Wildlife carers are still treating thousands of animals after last week's heatwave, including a high number of ringtail possums suffering burnt feet.
Animal care organisations received a record number of animals last week, with Wildlife Victoria receiving more than 1000 emergency calls a day - five times the average.
