WILDLIFE care
Apart from planting trees, we are also wildlife carers, and together with a loose-knit but dedicated group of carers in the area, we have formed Wet Tropics Wildlife Rescue. Our main focus is on bats, but we also care for a wide range of other wildlife from our region. Pictured here are three orphaned baby Northern Brown Bandicoots. All were successfully soft released once old enough. If you live in the Daintree Area and find an animal in trouble, please phone:
07 4098 9056
Please note: if you find a bat in trouble, DO NOT TOUCH. Contact us or your nearest wildlife care group - as we are trained and vaccinated.
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
- Albert Einstein
Animals for sponsorship - 3
featured below are some of our current animals in care available for sponsorship
Raising native wildlife can be an expensive business, but you can help us by sponsoring one of our animals in care.
All sponsors receive an emailed certificate and hi-res photo. To sponsor, just pick the animal of your choice
and sponsor via PayPal (links included) or via bank transfer (details at base of page).
FULLY SPONSORED
NIKI: female Spectacled Flying-fox
Niki is an endangered 7-week-old orphan Spectacled Flying-fox in care. Her sponsorship covers all costs such as milk replacer, medication, fruit, high protein supplement, and then support feeding post-release next year. You can choose to cover her rearing ($50), her creche ($50) or release ($50), or all three ($150). Just follow the link below and put ‘niki raise’, ‘niki creche’ or 'niki release' in the note. As an optional extra, for ($10) you can also have a rainforest food tree planted for her. Sponsors will receive a personalised certificate and a hi-res photo via email for you to print out and keep.
https://bit.ly/30Wfs3Q
FAIRY BELL: female Spectacled Flying-fox
Carla is an endangered 6-week-old orphan Spectacled Flying-fox in care. Her sponsorship covers all costs such as milk replacer, medication, fruit, high protein supplement, and then support feeding post-release next year. You can choose to cover her rearing ($50), her creche ($50) or release ($50), or all three ($150). Just follow the link below and put ‘fairybell raise’, ‘fairybell creche’ or 'fairybell release' in the note. As an optional extra, for ($10) you can also have a rainforest food tree planted for her. Sponsors will receive a personalised certificate and a hi-res photo via email for you to print out and keep.
https://bit.ly/30Wfs3Q
PART SPONSORED
$100
CARLA: female Spectacled Flying-fox
Carla is an endangered 7-week-old orphan Spectacled Flying-fox in care. Her sponsorship covers all costs such as milk replacer, medication, fruit, high protein supplement, and then support feeding post-release next year. You can choose to cover her rearing ($50), her creche ($50) or release ($50), or all three ($150). Just follow the link below and put ‘carla raise’, ‘carla creche’ or 'carla release' in the note. As an optional extra, for ($10) you can also have a rainforest food tree planted for her. Sponsors will receive a personalised certificate and a hi-res photo via email for you to print out and keep.
https://bit.ly/30Wfs3Q
FULLY SPONSORED
PART SPONSORED
$100
SIDNEY: male Spectacled Flying-fox
Sidney is an endangered 8-week-old orphan Spectacled Flying-fox in care. His sponsorship covers all costs such as milk replacer, medication, fruit, high protein supplement, and then support feeding post-release next year. You can choose to cover his rearing ($50), his creche ($50) or release ($50), or all three ($150). Just follow the link below and put ‘sidney raise’, ‘sidney creche’ or 'sidney release' in the note. As an optional extra, for ($10) you can also have a rainforest food tree planted for him. Sponsors will receive a personalised certificate and a hi-res photo via email for you to print out and keep.
https://bit.ly/30Wfs3Q
OTIE: female Spectacled Flying-fox
Carla is an endangered 9-week-old orphan Spectacled Flying-fox in care with ant bite damage to her ears. Her sponsorship covers all costs such as milk replacer, medication, fruit, high protein supplement, and then support feeding post-release next year. You can choose to cover her rearing ($50), her creche ($50) or release ($50), or all three ($150). Just follow the link below and put ‘otie raise’, ‘otie creche’ or 'otie release' in the note. As an optional extra, for ($10) you can also have a rainforest food tree planted for her. Sponsors will receive a personalised certificate and a hi-res photo via email for you to print out and keep.
https://bit.ly/30Wfs3Q
Some information about bats
- Just why are they so important?
BATS: flying-foxes & microbats
Our primary focus is on bats, and in Australia, we have around 90 species, which are broadly divided up into the large fruit and nectar-feeding megabats and the smaller insectivorous microbats. Our large megabats include flying-foxes, with wingspans up to 1.2 metres, as well as the much smaller tube-nosed and blossom bats. Microbats use echolocation to find prey, which includes insects, spiders, small fish and even other microbats. All Australian bats are vital to our environment, but also carry a small but real risk of carrying Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV)- which can be fatal. All bat carers are vaccinated, and if you find a bat in trouble, DO NOT TOUCH. Call your nearest wildlife rescue group.
HELP US continue our work
Caring for our wildlife is an expensive business, and you can help by donating for food, veterinary care and supplies. This photo is just one week's fruit supply for 80 orphan flying foxes. Choose from bank EFT or the orange PayPal button.
Bank: Commonwealth Bank
Name: Daintree Life
BSB: 064 835
Account: 1020 1397
Swift Code: CTBAAU2S