Australian Native Animals
Australian Native Animals
Australasian Wildlife Management Society The objectives of the Society are: to promote the study and application of scientific wildlife management: to provide opportunities for discussion and the dissemination of information among members by appropriate means such as meetings, workshops, and publications.
Australian Fauna The Australian
Fauna website was created in February, 2004. Their goal and aim is provide
genuine quality information about ALL types of Australian Fauna. It provides a number of fact sheets on Australian fauna.
Australian Mammal Society The Australian Mammal Society (AMS) is an interdisciplinary society of biologists whose common interest is in the biology and
conservation of Australian mammals. Research by members of the Society spans a wide variety of biological disciplines including behavioural and community ecology, population genetics, management and conservation. The goal of the Society is to contribute to the greater
understanding of the Australasian mammalian fauna.
Australian Registry of Wildlife Health The Registry of Wildlife Health was founded at Taronga Zoo in 1985 and has since grown into a diagnostic and resource centre. The Registry focuses on detecting and diagnosing endemic, emerging and exotic diseases of wildlife that could have impacts on Australia’s trade/economy, biodiversity, tourism and human healt
Birds Australia
Birds Australia (the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) was founded in 1901 and works to conserve native birds and biodiversity in Australasia and Antarctica, through the study and management of birds and their habitats, and the education and involvement of the community.
DEH Wildlife trade and conservation Includes listings of approved native species for trade. Also includes statisitical information regarding kangaroo and wallaby harvesting and quotas along with conditions that must be met when exporting live Kangaroos or Koalas
DEH Wild Harvest of Native Animals Includes information regarding Possums in Tasmania, Kangaroo Harvesting
Marsupial Society of Australia The Marsupial Society of Australia Inc. is a small organisation, based in Adelaide, South Australia, dedicated to providing information and education regarding keeping and breeding our native Fauna in captivity. Although the Society does not rescue individual animals, it provides support and guidance to those who do.
The Society was formed in 1981, and we have been publishing a monthly Journal / Newsletter ever since. This means that we have a vast information resource that can now be more readily accessible to the world via the internet.
National Wildlife Rehabilitation
Conference 2005 A number of papers presented at this conference are
available online.
National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2006 A number of papers presented at this conference are available online.
National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2007 A number of papers presented at this conference are available online.
National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2008 A number of papers presented at this conference are available online.
National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2010 To be held 22-24 June 2010
Taronga Conservation Society Links to Taronga Zoo, Western Plains Zoo and the Taronga Conservation Society Australia.
Threatened species
network Working with the community to stop plants and animals from
disappearing is what the Threatened Species Network (TSN) is all about.
TSN is a partnership between WWF-Australia and the Australian Government.
Includes fact sheets on some species and "The Web" newsletter produced
quarterly by WWF-Australia's Threatened Species Network, providing updates
on threatened species projects and activities happening around Australia.
Fauna Rescue and Rehabilitation
Australian Fauna Care This National facility is home to the most comprehensive list of wildlife care groups in Australia.
Australian Wildlife Health Centre Established at the Victorian Healesville Sanctuary
Australian
Wildlife Hospital Established at Australia Zoo in Queensland the Australian
Wildlife Hospital and Rescue Unit collects sick, injured and orphaned koalas
and other wildlife, and provides care and rehabilitation in a state-of-the-art
facility before releasing them back into the wild
Code of practice for the welfare of wildlife during rehabilitation: Published by Bureau of Animal Welfare, Attwood
October, 2001 includes recommended minimum cage sizes
Fauna Rescue South Australia A volunteer non profit organisation established in South Australia, caring for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife in thier own homes.
Help for Wildlife (Victoria)
NSW
NPWS - Links to Wildlife rehabilitation groups in NSW Provides a listing
of Wildlife rehabilitation groups in NSW
in NSW compliled by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Northern Tablelands Wildlife Carers -
Wildlife Carers are a network of trained volunteers licensed by NSW National Parks and wildlife Service. They rescue rehabilitate and release injured, sick orphaned and unwanted native fauna.
Ozark
OZARK is the Australian Wildlife Carer's Network. It is a vital communication link enabling wildlife carers from a wide range of areas and experience, to learn from one another, to discuss pertinent issues and to be part of a non-political supportive community of fellow wildlife workers and carers. Resources on the Ozark website are checked by vets or known authorities in the field before being presented on the site.
Wildlife Victoria
Wires (NSW)
The NSW Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES) is the largest
wildlife rescue organisation in Australia. Established in 1985, WIRES
has established a network of hundreds of volunteer who rescue, rehabilitate
and release sick, injured or orphaned native animals. Each year they receive
over 100,000 phone calls and rescue over 56,000 native animals from injured
bluetongues to orphaned wombats.
WIRES is a non-profit, non-political charity with branches operating
across NSW. Over 90 per cent of funding comes from public donations.
Each year they also receive a small grant from
the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the NSW Department of Agriculture.
Finding books using the Library Catalogue
Some starting points for library catalogue searches:
Mammals
Australia
Mammals
Australia identification
Mammals
behaviour
Mammals
physiology
Marsupials
Australia
Marsupials
nutrition
Wildlife
conservation Australia
Zoology
Australia
Databases to find journal articles and other publications
Academic OneFile
Academic
Search Premier
Agricola
Agriculture
& Natural Resources
APA-FT (Australian
Public Affairs Full Text)
Australia/New
Zealand Reference Centre
Biosis Previews
CAB
Abstracts
Current Contents Connect
ENDANGER: Threatened Species in Australia
Expanded
Academic ASAP
PubMed
(Medline)
SAGE
Scopus
Web of Science
Threatened
Species in Australia (ENDANGER)
Zoological
Record
NSW National Parks and
Wildlife Services
Includes park management plans, fire strategy plans as well as native
animal fact sheets and conservation information.
Northern Territory Natural
Resources Environment and the Arts Includes Media Releases and information
about Parks and Wildlife in the NT. Also ncludes listings of threatened
species along with fact sheets about the species along with some wildlife
management programs.
Victoria Dept of Sustainability
and Environment
Australian Koala Foundation A general information site but also includes information on distribution, taxonomy, diet and a listing of preferred eucalypts.
Koala Research On these pages you will find a a large body of information about koalas - particularly the Queensland koala. If you are interested in the diet of koalas, how they breed, interact or in fact any general koala information, you will probably find it here.
Compiled by Marie Kozulic
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