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Our History
Over the past 18 years Kununurra Veterinarian Dr Sarah Brett has worked with passion and determination towards increasing public awareness and education in regard to both the decline of wildlife species in their natural habitat and the rise in numbers of sick and injured native species.
A network of community volunteers has been established who give up their time to be carers for sick and injured wildlife to prepare them for re-release back into their natural habitat.
In 2000 a group formally known as Kimberley Wildlife Orphans Carers Association, who had been in operation for several years, renamed themselves "Kimberley Wildlife Rescue", they formed a committee and became an incorporated organisation.They voted Dr Sarah Brett as Chairperson and have approximately 60+ voting members and 50+ wildlife carers (full-time, part-time and casual).
Awareness of the drop in wildlife numbers. regular bush fire damage and recent arrival of the Cane Toad into the region has caused KWR Inc. to significantly increase their activity in order to help protect and preserve the biodiversity in the East Kimberley Region.
What drives us
We love animals, great and small, and we believe that we as humans need to help our native species to thrive as they did once before. Our team of dedicated volunteers help rescue injured and sick wildlife and rehabilitate them to give these animals a second chance of life.
We believe that with the ongoing devastation and increase in population of feral animals our unique Kimberley fauna, and other fauna around the world will be struggling to survive if we don't do anything about it.
Who we treat
KWR is happy to receive any orphaned, injured or sick creatures. We treat all species of birds, from birds of prey to water birds, perching birds and parrots.
We will treat any reptiles (and yes, we have rescued and rehabilitated crocodiles!) and we have treated many different species of mammals, from joeys and bandicoots, to bats and sugar gliders.
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