THANK YOU!!!







January 2020

With your amazing funding, we have now established the rescue centre into a charity: The Kangaroo Island Koala Rescue Centre Foundation.Your funding has and will help us with:--- Bushfire response: Caring for the wildlife that came in from the bushfires in 2019/2020 establishing a triage and treatment centre, ongoing treatments and vet care, medications, milk formula, holding enclosures and everything in between. Also maintaining and establishing response for future disasters.--- Emergency response: Establishing ongoing emergency response equipment to respond to wildlife call outs.--- Rescue: Ongoing rescue operations for Kangaroo Island Koalas and Wildlife including all the required items such as milk formulas and vet care for the rescue and rehabilitation of joeys.--- Conservation: Undertaking projects, research and education to the benefit of Koalas and Wildlife, especially those on Kangaroo Island.--- Rehabilitation: Of both our amazing wildlife and its habitat which is in dire need of help after the bushfires.Follow us on:orIt has been six months now since the bushfires ravaged Kangaroo Island. We saw over 600 animals, primarily koalas, come through the Wildlife Park as a direct result from the bushfires. We have successfully treated, rehabilitated and released over 200 animals back to the wild now with around 30 joeys still here at the park on bottles and growing to release weight.Even through it's now been six months we are still seeing a few koalas come in. We've had two in the last few weeks. One was found with infections to several fingers and burns that were healing and the other came from a burnt out area with barely any food in sight and just needed to be moved on.It has been an absolutely overwhelming ride through the bushfires and we cant thank everyone enough. We couldnt have done it without you all and your incredible donations. Your funding has helped us with vet fees, medications, establishing the enclosures and hospital and so much more. You helped us save every life we could and we are so thankful.Going forward your amazing donations will help us to protect, save and conserve Kangaroo Islands incredible wildlife.Due to the recent tragic bushfires, the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park has received a lot of concerned phone calls and messages regarding the impacted wildlife from these fires.Over the past few days we have started to see a large number of injured koalas, along with other native species heavily impacted by this event. We have been treating these victims as best we can to supply pain relief, antibiotics, treatment to wounds and basic husbandry requirements. We spent most of January 3rd building extra holding enclosures as well as defending the park from the immediate threat of the fire. We will continue to prepare more infrastructure to house the extra wildlife we expect to see over the coming weeks.For those of you who would like to contribute we are asking for funds to help with veterinary costs, koala milk and supplements, extra holding/rehabilitation enclosures, as well as setting up a building to hold supplies to treat these animals.We are working around the clock with a highly experienced, qualified and dedicated team of volunteers including qualified vets, vet nurses and wildlife carers to rescue, rehabilitate and care for all of the animals coming in from the bushfires.On admittance to us, all efforts are made to rehydrate, treat and assess the wildlife by our vet care team. Many are being treated for severe burns with most burns being to their hands, feet and rumps.We will continue to provide the best care possible for our injured wildlife, we expect due to significant habitat loss we will be building exhibits to hold the treated koalas until we can arrange release back into the wild for many of them.Kangaroo Island is well known for its thriving koala population however over 150,000 hectares has been lost due to recent events, this will effect our koala population dramatically. We need to pull together to save this Australian icon.Once conditions improve and we are granted access to fire ground, a qualified team will be going out to rescue wildlife caught in the fires and relocate those left without a food source or home.We will provide regular updates on the wildlife in our care, their progress and more.Thank you to everyone for your support through these trying times.