Wildlife rescue and rehabilititation in the Barrington Tops

The Barrington region north of Sydney in NSW was heavily impacted by drought and bushfire in 2019/20. ZAA-accredited organisation, Aussie Ark, were able to respond and save a number of wildlife in the area including brush-tail rock-wallabies, platypus and multiple species of turtle.

In regular communication with government, their team spent time in the field relocating animals to safer locations and monitoring the condition of those that required further care daily.

Aussie Ark began their rescue and rehab work in the Barrington in December and continued for several months given some of the long-term affects of drought and bushfire on wildlife leaving them vulnerable to starvation, predation and car strike. 

The rescue efforts aimed to:

• To provide veterinary care and ongoing health monitoring for platypus populations in the Upper Hunter and Manning regions.
• To provide care, husbandry and a variety of food to provide nutritional needs to the platypus until their release back to their wild environment.
• To release rescued and rehabilitation platypus back to the wild around September 2020
• To continue weekly monitoring and feeding of wild brush-tailed rock-wallaby populations through to September 2020.
• To provide daily care, husbandry and a variety of food to provide nutritional needs to the turtles during their care.
• To establish an insurance breeding program with 20 Hunter River turtles and release some animals back to the wild.

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