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For emergency native animal rescue please call our 24-hour hotline on 4053 4467. We also maintain a Rescue Centre in Cairns which is staffed by volunteers.

FNQ Wildlife Rescue has been providing an essential service to wildlife in Tropical North Queensland for over 30years. At present, we have over 160 members covering an area from Mission Beach, west to Mt Surprise and north to Weipa. Our 24-hour 7-day rescue hotline receives well over 5,000 calls each year calling for our volunteers to assist sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife. Many of these animals are taken in by our volunteer carers who raise them to a stage where they can be released back into a natural environment. Raising wildlife is no mean feat and many carers give up months of their time and much of their own money to rehabilitate these animals. Many carers spent up to $70.00 per week on fauna supplies for the animals they have in care. Due to the high cost of living some carers can no longer afford to feed the animals thus we need help to buy products for them. As a volunteer organisation, we receive no Government funding and rely on our membership, sale of wildlife supplies and donations to keep us going, yet we provide an essential service to the community. Rehabilitation is very expensive, although we provided fauna at cost and yearly petrol vouchers, there is a huge cost on our carers who most of them are pensioners. We have a very large administration expenditure of $18,000.00 (being rent, electricity, telephone, insurance etc.}
This financial year 2022, 1837 animals went into care of which 1587 were birds.

12/10/2026

One lucky little Imperial pigeon. Egg hatched at the vets fingers crossed for its survival. They gave us a call now in the capable hands of Kay.
Cairns NQ

12/10/2026

These two little Welcome Swallow came into care because their nest was destroyed. Challenging times ahead fingers crossed.

09/10/2026

A huge thank you to Ash who is a fauna spotter catcher at Skardon River
Metro Mines.. which is about 100k nth of weipa.
Ash found 2 Savannah gliders during a clean up. Dad had a laceration to his left foot and had a joey near him. Both are otherwise in good health . Now Ash arranged for both gliders to be flown to Cairns the following morning with a co worker . Both are now in the very capable caring hands with Desley our super experienced carer.

02/10/2026

And here is the result of "KEEP AWAY FROM MY NEST"

01/10/2026

Luv it when the wildlife are nesting at my place. W***y Wags telling me to keep my distance.
Cairns NQ

01/10/2026

W***y Wags protecting his/her bubs

01/10/2026

Visiting a friend yesterday and look what she's got on her back clothes line...Sunbird sitting there patiently.💗 Bentley Park Cairns NQ

01/10/2026

A heartfelt thank you to Matt Smith MP
Far North Queensland Wildlife Rescue is sincerely grateful to Matt Smith MP for awarding us a Community Grant of $3,360 to support our telecommunications and insurance costs.
This generous assistance will help strengthen the vital work our volunteers and carers do every day to rescue, rehabilitate and care for native wildlife. Reliable communication helps us respond when animals need help, while insurance provides important support for the people who give their time and compassion to this work.
We deeply appreciate your care for our local wildlife and your recognition of the dedication it takes to protect them. Your support makes a meaningful difference to our organisation and to the animals that depend on us.
On behalf of our volunteers, carers and the wildlife in our care, thank you, Matt, for standing with us and helping make this work possible.

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29/09/2026

Funny story
Robert came in and told me about this curlew he nearly stood on out front and to come and look at it.
We go out, it's still there I take a photo, Robert walks around it, touches it and rolls it over; it doesn't move, looks stiff. I go over pick it up to check it, the legs drop down and a bit of a struggle so I put it down, it runs then off it flies, lands across the street and looks non-plus back at us.
How easy is it to kidnap a bush stone curlew when they play dead like that? Wongaling Beach NQ..Thanks for shareing guys

27/09/2026

Visiting a friend in Moorooka Brisbane and look who came to visit
I was here 2 years ago and 2 visited. I reckon he knew I was visiting and came to say Hi

Address

114 Hoare Street
Cairns, QLD
4870

Website

http://www.fnqwildliferescue.org.au/

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