WHY DO NATIVE ANIMALS NEED SPECIAL CARE?
The essentials of caring for wildlife are the same: warmth, shelter, a balanced diet, training on how to care for itself and care while it cannot.  Every species has special needs. Special skills are needed when caring for native wildlife and NQ Wildlife Care aims to assist carers in developing these skills based on advice and supervision.
The needs of animals change as they grow, and special formulas are necessary to make sure the animal gets the nutrition it needs to grown into a healthy adult or to recover from injury or illness.
Every animal deserves the chance to live a free and natural life.  Native animals are not pets and should never be thought of as pets. The best feed and care is wasted if the animal is unprepared for life in the wild or it cannot be released.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND A NATIVE ANIMAL?

That depends on the type of animal, where it is and whether it needs help.

• If the animal seems to be in good health, is not distressed, is in no danger, and is not a danger to people, the best advice is to simply leave it alone.
  
• If you are not sure whether or it needs help, leave it be and check on it again later after half an hour or so.
  
• All native animals are the property of the Crown and most animals are protected. It is illegal to kill or harm protected animals and it is illegal to capture and move animals that are causing problems.  
  
• Injured animals should be taken to the nearest vet.  After assessment, the vet will arrange for a carer to collect.
  
• All members of NQ Wildlife Care are volunteers and we rely heavily on your help to get animals to a place where we can collect them after necessary treatment.

Please see pages on 'I've Found a.....' for more information

​If you have found sick, injured or orphaned wildlife, please call our Townsville and local surrounds 
Wildlife Number on
0414 717 374