Veterinary services, rehablitation, emergency response, community education, work placements, disease surveillance, research, advocacy.
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![Veterinary team providing emergency treatment to a mud-caked koala on an examination table found injured in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Alfred which impacted large areas of eastern Australia in March 2025.]()
Veterinary Services
Our team of veterinarians and nurses are experts in the physiology and anatomy of Australian native mammals, avians, reptiles and amphibians. Supported by a management and administrative team and volunteers, we provide professional, lifesaving veterinary and rehabilitation serviced for sick,. injured and orphaned wildlife.
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![Two veterinary nurses, a man and a woman, examine a large Wedge-tailed eagle in an outdoor aviary enclosure. The woman holds a towel, and the man is examining the bird's wing.]()
Rehabilitation Services
Our veterinary team work closely with wildlife carers to rehabilitate sick, injured and orphaned wildlife with the aim of releasing them to the wild. Our state of the art facilities are designed to facilitate return to health of our patients.
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![Australia's only mobile wildlife hospital driving along a coastal highway with the ocean in the background.]()
Emergency Response
Powered by UD Trucks, Australia’s only mobile wildlife hospital is fully equipped and staffed to provide immediate, expert care to wildlife during natural disasters and emergencies such as bushfires, floods, and mass disease outbreaks.
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![A sample factsheet sheet cover with a flying fox, a type of bat. It ncludes titles about wildlife, vulnerability, and learning about flying foxes, supported by NSW government.]()
Community Education
We encourage members of the public to be wildlife aware and engaged in wildlife care through volunteering, factsheets, educational videos and information on threatened species, to community events and veterinary endorsed wildlife car rescue kits to assist wildlife in need.
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![A veterinarian performing a procedure on a bird, with medical tools and equipment in the background.]()
Work Placements
Wildlife Recovery Australia’s work placement program provides practical wildlife veterinary experience to students from across Australia and overseas. In doing so, WRA is helping to create jobs for future generations of veterinarians to support immediate wildlife care.
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![A pie chart titled 'Top Reasons for Admission' showing percentages for hit by car, animal attack, disease, fallen from nest, and trauma. Below, text says 'Wildlife injured on our roads is the most common reason for admission.' Source: Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital 2023 Patient Data.]()
Research
With over 10,000 wildlife patients treated, we are compiling exceptionally valuable data and insights on trends, causes and symptoms of wildlife injury and illness.
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![X-ray of a black flying fox, lying on its side. The image includes a ruler for scale and is from Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital.]()
Disease Surveillance
WRA’s flagship Byron Bay WIldlife Hospital is one of 10 sentinel veterinary clinics in Wildlife Health Australia’s National Disease Surveillance program. It is part of a national network keeping an eye out for wildlife with infectious diseases like High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) that could impact wildlife, livestock, and human health.
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![A circular logo with a green, black, and blue background, featuring a silhouette of a kangaroo.The words "I VOTE FOR WILDLIFE " are written at the top of the circle in white.]()
Advocacy
As thought leaders in wildlife treatment and recovery, we advocate for systemic policy reform to ensure that the protection of native animals and biodiversity is a priority in state and national environment policies.
