================================================================= 2/13/09: Victoria Burning - Help Animal Fire Victims
IN THIS ALERT:
KC Directory: Animal Relief Efforts You Can Help. Millions Died...
Nigel’s Animal Rescue: Send Money & Supplies ASAP
Wildlife Victoria: Overwhelmed With Fire Victims
Help For Wildlife: Long Recovery Ahead For Animals
RSPCA: Emergency Aid For Companion Animals
Wildlife Burning
IFAW: Team On The Ground For Animals In Victoria
Survivors Of The Fire - Symbols of Hope
Please review resources below to see WHO and HOW to help.
PHOTOS: Help For Wildlife, Victoria (Australia) -- (Warning: VERY distressing images) http://www.helpforwildlife.com/bushfires/photos.html ================================================================= 1. Animal Relief Efforts You Can Help. Millions Died...
EYEWITNESS TO THE FIRES -- VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 2/12/09, Katie, Lake Nagambie - Victoria, Australia,
beachside64@optusnet.com.au -- It feels like the whole of Victoria is up in
flames. We expect [human] fatalities to climb over 300 when they get around
to more isolated areas. [It is estimated] well over 1 million wild and
domestic animals have perished... Animals lucky enough to be rescued will
need months of care and rehabilitation. There are still 31 fires burning...
NIGEL’S ANIMAL RESCUE – CENTRAL HUB FOR DONATIONS & SUPPLIES: Nigel's Animal Rescue has been working around the clock to provide emergency
assistance to animals affected by the bushfires and we desperately need your
help! Nigel’s Animal Rescue currently operates as the central hub for
donations and supplies for all animal rescues in the area.
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS: Hay, Straw / Food Cat-Dog-Chaff / Medical Supplies
Cages Transportable Collapsible / Temporary pens
Transport for injured animals.
4g and 22g catheters (prefer introcan but anything would be fine)
5cm coplus & soffban / Idexx urea and creat slides
0.9% sodium chloride 1 litre bags
Gloves / Swabs / Bedding
Giving sets / Extension sets
Melolin 10cm x 10cm
Silvazine / Baytril injectable
Tramal injectable / Temgesic injectable
Alfaxan CD / Solosite
IV Drip pumps J / Heat pads/packs
1ml, 3ml, 5, 10ml, 20, syringes
The fires have devastated our wildlife, including the loss of at least two
wildlife shelters... Wildlife rescuers are preparing for one of the largest
operations in our history once we can safely enter fire grounds...
Unfortunately we cannot take volunteers at this time unless they’re already
trained. If people want to help -- please donate to the appeal.
DONATE TO WILDLIFE VICTORIA’S URGENT BUSHFIRE APPEAL: To fund bandages, treatment, medicines and food for injured wildlife, plus
activities to help our volunteers best respond to wildlife needs.
WEBSITE: http://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php
EMAIL: office@wildlifevictoria.org.auThis ONLINE: http://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=43 BY MAIL: Wildlife Victoria, 3/288 Brunswick St.
Fitzroy 3065
ph: 9445 0310 DIRECT DEPOSIT: Account Name: Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Account
Bank Name: Commonwealth Bank
BSB: 063 806
Account: 1007 7387
================================================================= 4. Help For Wildlife: Long Recovery Ahead For Animals
POSTED COMMENT IN BEST FRIENDS AUSTRALIA NETWORK COMMUNITY: http://network.bestfriends.org/foaaustralia/news/
The Help for Wildlife response team -- based in the vicinity where
Kinglake/Healesville fires occurred -- are on standby to enter fire grounds
when safe to rescue injured wildlife. They already have a number of animals
in care and are expecting many more. Kangaroos and wallabies found in
abundance in this area can take months to recover and require a great deal
of dressings and medication.
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS: silverzine cream / non-stick dressings
soft bandages / vet wrap
saline / disinfectant/clorhexidine
syringes / pain relief / antibiotics
feed / hay (for starving wildlife)
Donations for fuel (to carry out the extensive search and rescue)
DONATE TO HELP FOR WILDLIFE: WEBSITE: http://www.helpforwildlife.com/help_for_wildlife.html
EMAIL: helpforwildlife@bigpond.com DONATE MONEY OR SUPPLIES BY MAIL: Help For Wildlife, PO Box 181
Coldstream 3770 VIC, Australia
ph: 0417 380 687, 0359 649, 480
Denise Garratt, Director
SYDNEY -- Wildlife rescue officials worked frantically to help the animals
that made it through Australia’s worst-ever wildfires, but they said
millions of animals likely perished in the inferno. Hundreds of burned,
stressed and dehydrated animals -- including kangaroos, koalas, lizards and
birds -- already have arrived at shelters across the scorched region.
Rescuers have doled out antibiotics, pain relievers and fluids to the
critters in a bid to keep them comfortable, but some of the severely injured
were euthanized to spare any more suffering.
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) has sent an emergency relief
team to help wild and domestic animals affected by the devastating fires in
Victoria. Tania Duratovic is leading the IFAW team in Whittlesea. We arrived
in Whittlesea (2/9/09) and set up in the staging area...
Today we traveled to Kinglake West and Kinglake Central - two of the worst
hit areas. Remnants of trees and piles of rubble are all that is left of
what used to people’s homes and indeed whole towns. People are happy...to
see something emerge alive from the devastation. As one person recounted as
they handed over a slightly burned ring-tailed possum, “We have lost our
house, our neighbours and our pets but we found this little guy alive --
please help him, I just want him to live.”
So far we have been able to provide immediate aid to many animals suffering
from the effects of the fire including dogs, cats, horses, ducks, chickens,
wallabies, possums, kangaroos, joeys, koalas, a peacock, a lyrebird, a goat,
a dingo and an orphaned baby deer...
DONATE TO IFAW / ASIA-PACIFIC: https://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/donate_now/index.php?msource=DR090202001
Anyone who finds an injured animal should call Tania Duratovic on 0428 229 000.
================================================================= 8. Survivors Of The Fire – Symbols of Hope
A koala nicknamed Bob puts his paw around fellow fire survivor Sam at the
Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson, Australia. Colleen Wood / Southern
Ash Wildlife Shelter via Reuters. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
SYDNEY -- A bond between two burned koalas rescued from Australia's
deadliest wildfires has provided some heart-warming relief after days of
devastation and the loss of more than 180 lives and possibly millions of
animals. The story of the koalas emerged after volunteer firefighter David
Tree used a mobile phone to photograph and film the rescue of the bewildered
female, since nicknamed Sam, that was found cowering in a burned-out forest
at Mirboo North, 90 miles southeast of Melbourne.
Photos and video of Tree, 44, approaching Sam while talking gently to her,
and feeding her water from a plastic bottle as she put her burned claw in
his cold, wet hand quickly hit YouTube, making her an Internet sensation.
But it was after reaching a wildlife shelter that Sam met and befriended
another koala, nicknamed Bob, who was saved by wildlife workers two days
before Sam, in Boolarra, about 110 miles from Melbourne... CONTINUE STORY: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
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