Ballarat Wildlife Rehabilitation & Conservation Inc

During 2024 BWRAC conducted a specialty micro bat and flying fox workshop for wildlife rescuers/carers/shelter, and landowners to educate them on how to rescue and care for these critically endangered native wildlife. Providing education opportunities for our wildlife responders is a crucial part of our mission and aims. As a way of engaging with our local community we also undertook a major tree planting project with a private landowner, engaging with local year nine high school students who came and helped us prepare and plant the tube stock. This provided an opportunity to engage with them and explain some of the issues that our wildlife face and how they can help. We also gave the students a basic introduction to wildlife first aid. We also undertook community engagement via markets, where we get to talk to local members of the community about the issues facing our local wildlife. In 2024 we established a financial reimbursement program where we help wildlife carers/rescuers/shelters with the ongoing cost of rehabilitating our wildlife. This program is funded by donations.