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FNQ Wildlife Rescue 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.

22/10/2026
22/10/2026

Update on Figgie who now has a buddy. Camera and figgie both wobbling well this time. Cairns NQ Cared for by me

Adult Superb fruit dove.Beautiful colours. Hit a window silly fellow then was grabbed by a dog.Picked him up from the ve...
19/10/2026

Adult Superb fruit dove.
Beautiful colours. Hit a window silly fellow then was grabbed by a dog.
Picked him up from the vets thankfully no injuries. Spent a few weeks in care on meds for a few days. Successful released this morning he flew up up straight onto a branch of a high tree.
Such a great feeling to see a successful release. Cairns NQ Cared for by me.

18/10/2026

This little fig bird came into care after being found by MOP on the ground,no trees around no parents. He's a demanding little one at meal times. Sorry its hard trying to hold the phone and feed with out woppling!.being cared for by me.
Cairns NQ

16/10/2026

What a successful rescue and release...Cairns NQ

One lucky little Imperial pigeon. Egg hatched at the vets fingers crossed for its survival. They gave us a call now in t...
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

These two little Welcome Swallow came into care because their nest was destroyed. Challenging times ahead fingers crosse...
12/10/2026

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

A huge thank you to Ash who is a fauna spotter catcher at Skardon River Metro Mines.. which is about 100k nth of weipa.A...
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.

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

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114 Hoare Street
Cairns, QLD
4870

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