This new year we face the enormity of the bushfires that have scorched our country. The skies are still smoke filled, fires still burn – and animals have suffered and perished in unknowable numbers.

To date, an estimated 1.25 billion animals have been killed across Australia. The true toll will be far higher, as surviving animals die of injuries, homelessness, thirst and hunger. These includes so many of our iconic species, like koalas and wombats.

Our organisation’s focus is protecting wombats. The rehabilitation, research and conservation work done at WPSA has never been more important. Our challenge now is to help wombats survive. 

We must care for burnt and critically injured wombats.

We must provide food for starving wombats, and water for wombats dying of thirst.

We must rebuild safe places for wombats now their habitat and food sources have been destroyed.

We must support the selfless individuals who dedicate their lives to protecting and caring for wombats. Many carers have been severely impacted by the fires or are preparing for the inevitability of new fires in their area. 

Your generous donation to WPSA will be 100% tax deductible. All funds go directly to the care and protection of wombats.

We cannot see our extraordinary wombats become extinct.

We need to ensure that wombats survive not just this month, but as a viable species for the future.

Thank you for your care, compassion, and help to keep wombats alive. Thank you too, to all the selfless volunteers facing the flame today, protecting us all, and to those trekking across the black to bring food and help to our wildlife.

Jackie French & the Team at WPSA

Jackie is an Author, Historian, Ecologist and Honorary Wombat