FNQ Wildlife Rescue

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 anima

ls 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.

🚨 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐒𝐯𝐒𝐚 𝐭𝐒𝐦𝐞!! 🚨Join us on Thursday January 15th for a fun-filled night of trivia, prizes and delicious food and d...
05/01/2026

🚨 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐒𝐯𝐒𝐚 𝐭𝐒𝐦𝐞!! 🚨
Join us on Thursday January 15th for a fun-filled night of trivia, prizes and delicious food and drinks at the Salt House!
This is a very busy time of year for us with bat rescues, orphans and injured bats in care and lots of mouths to feed. πŸŠπŸ‰πŸ“πŸ₯­
Please come along and support us!
$10 per person - email [email protected] to register your team πŸ€“πŸ€“

02/01/2026
01/01/2026
My 3 teeny birds. Welcome Swallow and Fairy Martins.Thanks for shareing Stacey Cairns NQ
31/12/2025

My 3 teeny birds. Welcome Swallow and Fairy Martins.
Thanks for shareing Stacey Cairns NQ

The Plovers are now 2.5 weeks old and have grown a lot...In the capable hands of Stacey..Cairns NQ
31/12/2025

The Plovers are now 2.5 weeks old and have grown a lot...In the capable hands of Stacey..Cairns NQ

White-breasted Woodswallows sheltering from the rain on Cairns Esplanade πŸ₯° thanks for sharing Stacey
31/12/2025

White-breasted Woodswallows sheltering from the rain on Cairns Esplanade πŸ₯° thanks for sharing Stacey

31/12/2025
24/12/2025

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MERRY CHRISTMAS from us to you.

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114 Hoare Street
Cairns, QLD
4870

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FNQ Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit organisation situated in Far North Queensland dedicated to the rescue, care, and release of sick, injured and orphaned native wildlife from Cardwell to Cape York.

As a voluntary organisation, we rely on community support to continue to operate our emergency telephone service and to provide financial assistance to our volunteer wildlife rehabilitators.

We became an Incorporated Association and registered charity in 1999 and are listed on the Register of Environmental Organisations.