Two grants to Possumwood
This week Possumwood Wildlife secured two grants to assist with its operation. Both grants recognise the significant contribution...
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A Great Summer Read
Gypsy Wulff’s new book Turning Points in Compassion is a great read this Summer for those interested in the compassionate lives of ...
Herpes virus isolated in kangaroo respiratory illness
In the Fact Sheet section we reported on our success in treating a life threatening respiratory illness in infant eastern grey kangaroos...
Steve and Rosemary speak at the MAC3 International Conference on Animals in New Delhi
Steve and Rosemary delivered three papers at the Third International Minding Animals Conference in New Delhi in January. One paper was on...
Manar
It was late one night when Manar, a severely injured adult female wombat, was brought to us. She had a fractured skull and jaw , severe...
A Big Thanks From Big Bertha
The rescue and rehabilitation of injured native animals is a team effort and Bertha the wombat has many people to thank. Bertha was...
Monga Goes Home
Monga the wombat was rescued near Mongarlowe. Weighing in at 34 kilograms the wild wombat, despite having a dislocated elbow and...
Wilma’s Story
The snow lay lightly on the surrounding hills on a frosty July morning when the call for a wombat rescue came in. The prospects for a...
Denton takes the Wheel
Denton was never your typical wombat. Named because of the dental and other surgery to fix a fractured jaw when his mother was killed by...
Big Max makes full recovery and goes free
Just before Christmas Steve and Rosemary were called to rescue a huge kangaroo that had been hit by a vehicle near Queanbeyan. Max must...
Big Autumn Move Almost Completed
Our Autumn move of rehabilitated kangaroos to their delayed-release site is now nearing completion; with their eventual release on 2000...
A new beginning for Scottie the wombat
Rosemary and I rescued Scottie last September. He had been attacked by dogs and was in a bad way. But this was to be his lucky day. His...
From Chaos to Calm in a Second
One of the joys of living with wild animals is going for a walk and having previously cared-for animals come over to you to say ‘hello’....
Tangled up with Tangles and Captain (his father)
Late in the afternoons the local kangaroo mob with their alpha male gather near our treatment centre in the hope they might get some...
Fur Elise
She was as beautiful as the music she was named after and a very lucky little joey. Elise was caught by her foot in a wire fence...
Emotional Eyes
Steve and Rosemary’s story ‘Dasher’ had lost her long time and inseparable companion ‘Rudi’ to cardiomyopathy – resulting from being...
George
George is a lucky kangaroo. A member of the public stopped by the side of the road in the ACT and noticed movement in the pouch of a dead...
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