What Will The Future Hold For Local Wildlife in Taringa?

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Here is a photo i took last night that represents the area and species well!



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PLEASE DO NOT RING THE EMERGENCY NUMBER EXCEPT WITH INJURED WILDLIFE

The current fire situation has left its devestation on our wildlife including the loss of at least two wildlife shelters to the fires. Wildlife Victoria are trying to assertain the safety of other shelters in the fire areas and to offer support and help with evacuation of animals already in their care if they need it. Donations desperately needed to help save the animals, to donate to the bush fire appeal click here.

Please donate now to Wildlife Victoria's Urgent Bushfire Appeal 2009 - click here. Download our information for donation of goods and supply drop off points

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Hundreds of thousands of wild animals are killed, injured and orphaned throughout Australia as a direct consequence of human activities. As government resources for wildlife management dwindle, much of the work of rescuing and caring for these animals falls on the shoulders of volunteer organisations such as Wildlife Victoria

Mr. Rob Gell

Patron, Wildlife Victoria

Letter From Wildlife Victoria

Dear Peter

Thank you for your generous offer of support to assist Wildlife Victoria to raise funds in support of our precious wildlife injured by these terrible fires. Your support is greatly appreciated by Wildlife Victoria and Australia’s furry friends.

Peter, allow me to provide you with a quick update on the fires and how much needed funds are being utilised:

Currently burning fires are gradually being brought under control, thanks to milder weather, rain, and the tireless efforts of CFA firefighters. We have lost 7 of our volunteer Wildlife Shelters to these devastating fires. We are doing what we can to get these shelters up and going as soon as we can.

Wildlife Victoria volunteers are scouting large areas of burnt bushland and have already rescued 100s of animals from the fire grounds. More animals are being found and saved every day, receiving emergency first aid followed by longer term treatment and care.

We are doing what we can to relieve the suffering of burnt animals quickly, setting up triage centres for emergency treatment and doing food drops for animals we can't find or reach.

We are organising the distribution of $50,000 worth of food supplies for animals who have survived the fires but are now starving because their food source is now gone. We are supplying vets in the field with supplies they need to cover the wildlife (and some other animals), including the Kinglake vet clinic that was burnt down where we are providing support for medical supplies, veterinarian staff, and logistical support.

We are supplying temporary cages, food for the animals, medical supplies for shelters whose equipment was burnt. We are supplying fire-proof safety gear for volunteer shelter operators to wear while out on their own properties, caring for wildlife that is coming to them. We are doing all we can to ensure the volunteers and the animals have everything they need to have the best possible chance of recovery and long term survival.

I can report that 'Koala Sam' is doing well, responding to treatment, and is at this stage likely to make a full recovery.

Just a few days ago we brought out another 17 koalas from another area of burnt bush (near Colac) and taken them into care. The koalas had been burnt a week earlier, and were severely dehydrated so our rescuers got there just in time.

Just one koala in care costs around $400 per week (including burns creams, dressings, IV fluids, food, antibiotics and general care) and rehabilitation can take many months before the koala can be successfully released back to its natural habitat.

The recuperation and recovery of the animal victims will take many months, the recovery of their habitats, food supplies and bushland will take years.

Your donation will make a huge difference to our capacity to get resources on the ground quickly and save as many animals' lives as possible.

Just a reminder that regular updates are available, including becoming a Wild Friend, Member, and other important information by visiting www.wildlifevictoria.org.au

Kind regards,

Amy

Amy Amato

Wildlife Victoria

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some of the places they sleep - To Inform Developers/Demolition CrewsS

Ive got great concerns that many animals will be inside the house when they go to knock it down. ive passed on this internet site to the developers and will also be providing them with information to assist with proper treatment of the wildlife.


Also very concerned that the developers will lay RAT BAITS down because of the current rat problem here and it will kill many of them if they eat the baits.

The wildlife/possums pose great threat to the development if the trees they rely on cant be cut down. Then the church cant be relocated to harrys rd Taringa and The Taringa gateway Project proposal may have some problems.

Work has Begun @ 1 harrys rd Taringa

a quick update!

Work has Begun @ 1 harrys rd Taringa



I want to work with the developers to take care of the Animals here.

7 Year Old Brushtail Possum - help Me Save her Life from Developers

The Miss PiGGy Post - Aussie Wildlife

This is Miss Piggy. She is now at least 7 years old.

fact:

Brush tail possums do not normally live longer than 4 years in the wild. She is now at least 7 years old. Little Aussie battler. Been in a lot of fights. Had 4 offspring and I saved her life from Exudative Dermatitis. Exudative Dermatitis is a killer and you can help save there lives if you know what to look for.

You can see in the photos.


Miss Piggy lives @ 1 harrys Rd Taringa next door to the rail way line.

Myself I ve lived here for over 5 and half years. Miss piggy was the first brush tail I had contact with daily and I became to love her. She is a gentle animal. She walks around the house follows me like a puppy does!


Now that the new Taringa gateway Project developers have purchased the houses on harrys rd they are going to demolish her home and will immediately endanger her and many other possums on this block of land.


Ive presented Ronan Lee & Jane Prentice all the information about the problems and Ronan said he would look into it. I really do hope that he can help them. They are really special animals and are protected.



This is her about 2 months ago.

1st state of Exudative Dermatitis



2nd/3rd State of Exudative Dermatitis



after she came home from Wildcare Australia!




3 years old

Help Save Taringa's Wildlife

After reading this blog you will come to an understanding that Wildlife in Taringa are now facing a Developers bulldozer and without your help and that of Cr Jane Prentice & Ronan Lee these guys are in a lot of trouble.

Ive passed on all the information about the problem to


Cr Jane Prentice

Ronan Lee - Greens Mp Indooroopilly

Paul Reed - Chief Of Staff Channel 9

and various other local people.





UPDATE COMMING SOON

1/1 Harrys Rd has been marked!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

1/1 Harrys Rd has been marked!

Yesterday i found these 2 new spray paint markings out the front of the house. Iam not sure what they are so if you know let me know.



There are 2 separate markings.

Miss Piggy Update Images & Problem Comming Real Soon!

This is Miss Piggy. She is Fatso's grandmother and Great Grandmother to Gizmo. Look at there tails.. All White Tips, but Piggy & Gizmo are the only 2 with White Tips that long ive seen in over 130 possums who have lived here over the years.


Keep Watching this page. Ive got a big problem with the owners/developers and real estate are evicting myself from this house where ive looked after the local wildlife for over 5 years now.

They (owners/developers & real estate) do not have any plans to take care of all the animals ive featured in this blog and iam working on a solution so they don't die from the reckless practices Urban Developers are well known for.

The destruction of the premisis will endanger there existance and i will be getting someone from Ecology Sector/Ecologist/s to do an impact asessment on the protected wildlife who enbabit the land.

Fatso & Her New Baby - I Call Him Gizmo

Here a 2 of my favourite pets! they are called Brushtail possums and very common in Australia. The Adult is Fatso, she is 3 and half years old. Little fella is not got a name yet.

Its Fatso's second baby and both born in my house now.. If you are from Overseas and not Australia they are known as Common Brush tail Possums

I got him by himself and he like the camera! haha. Click each image to get bigger views

Notice that white tip on the end of his tail? that is not normal with these breed. they do normally have mostly black but his is much more white.. So i think i will be calling him Gizmo!

Trying to find his mum ma again.

A symbol of hope - Sam the Koala - meets her saviour

you can also follow up on this story

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25042373-661,00.html

Wildlife toll may top a million after Victoria bushfires

World's most famous koala Sam reunited with bushfire rescuer

This is extremely heartbreaking to think not just the people who have passed on but over a million animals due to this Australia's worst natural disaster in history. Iam not sure how the species will hold up after this

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25042249-2862,00.html#

Daniel Fogarty

February 12, 2009 12:00am

MORE than a million native animals may have died in Victoria's fire inferno, a wildlife expert says.

The huge effort to rescue animals caught in the fire has begun with triage centres set up to assess injured wildlife at staging posts at Kilmore, Whittlesea and Redesdale near Bendigo.

The animals are then being treated and assessed by vets at nearby shelters, who make the agonising decision about which ones need to be put down.

Those animals still able to may wait several weeks before walking out of fire-affected forest, Gayle Chappell from the Hepburn Wildlife Shelter said.

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Ms Chappell is among those working to rescue the animals and says the extent of the devastation may never be known.

"It (the animal death toll) will be in the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions," Ms Chappell said.

"We are not just talking the animals we are familiar with, there are gliders and all sorts of possums, antechinus (a mouse-like marsupial), bandicoots, birds -- there is so much wildlife.

"It is devastating, the actual size of the destruction is devastating to a number of wildlife populations."

It is feared endangered populations of gliders, owls and lizards may be among the dead.

For those that have survived, the recovery process will be long and slow.

"They have lost their homes too and they are not going to be rebuilt in a year or two years, it is a much longer-term picture," Ms Chappell said.

"You can't reconstruct a forest."

The fires also destroyed four wildlife shelters, including Stella Reid's Wildhaven shelter at Kinglake.

Ms Chappell said Ms Reid escaped with her life, but the animals were not so lucky.

"It has been a real blow for everybody, I think. That is what has really brought it home for everybody, hearing that Stella Reid's place was totalled and all her animals . . . they weren't able to get any animals out at all."

To provide some help to wildlife and pets affected by the bushfires click here

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Heat Wave Causes Wildlife Deaths

Thursday, 29 January 2009 07:31

Wildlife Victoria volunteers have been at the site of the largest Grey Headed Flying Fox Colony Wednesday and Thursday of the heat wave and are heading back today, by the end of the first two days over 1000 GHFF's had died from the heat. Volunteers spent hours spraying water onto the juvenile creche in an effort to rehydrate in situ. The GHFF's were happy for our efforts and readily drank the water either straight from the stream or from droplets on their wings and bodies. Many were saved but with another day of intense heat the prognosis does not look good. Dozens of juveniles and some adults were taken into care by a licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitator from Wildlife Vic. These are the fortunate ones, they will spend the next two days in the flying fox aviary at the carer's house which is situated in a cool part of her garden and has a fine mist spray from the sprinkler giving the bats constant relief from the overwhelming heat. Today volunteers are gearing up for more of the same. They will weather the heat to bring relief to the colony in the hope of saving just a few more. Ringtail possums have also suffered badly from the last week of heat and are coming in to shelters and vets in enormous numbers, many with burns to their feet from walking on the hot ground, something that is an anomoly for these animals who prefer to move from shrub to shrub without going to the ground. If you would like to donate to help Wildlife Victoria click here To help the wildlife in your area put out some bowls of water.

Fires threaten the state

Bushfires threaten Wildlife Survival – affected wildlife already in care PLEASE DO NOT RING THE EMERGENCY NUMBER EXCEPT WITH INJURED WILDLIFE Feb 2009 The current fire situation has left its devestation on our wildlife including the loss of at least two wildlife shelters to the fires. Wildlife Victoria are trying to assertain the safety of other shelters in the fire areas and to offer support and help with evacuation of animals already in their care if they need it. Donations desperately needed to help save the animals, to donate to the bush fire appeal click here. Please donate now to Wildlife Victoria's Urgent Bushfire Appeal 2009 - click here. Download our information for donation of goods and supply drop off points

Read more...

International Donations

You can donate using our secure webform here. Enter the amount you would like to donate in Australian dollars. Your credt card provider will convert from your local currency to the Australian dollar amount. Alternatively, you can Donate online via paypal in $US.

Hundreds of thousands of wild animals are killed, injured and orphaned throughout Australia as a direct consequence of human activities. As government resources for wildlife management dwindle, much of the work of rescuing and caring for these animals falls on the shoulders of volunteer organisations such as Wildlife Victoria

Mr. Rob Gell

Patron, Wildlife Victoria