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Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

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Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital is the North Coast’s first all-species wildlife hospital, and Australia’s largest mobile wildlife hospital

23/10/2025

🌿 Weekend Wildlife Warriors Wanted! 🦘🦉

Love animals? Looking for a meaningful way to spend your weekends?
Join our amazing volunteer team at Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital!

We’re looking for dedicated Hospital Volunteers to help care for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. Tasks include assisting our vet team, cleaning enclosures, food prep, laundry, and helping keep the hospital running smoothly.

✨ No experience required – just a love of animals, reliability, and a willingness to learn.
🕐 Shifts available Saturday and Sunday mornings & afternoons.
📍 Located in Lennox head.

You’ll be part of a passionate team making a real difference for our native wildlife. 💚

👉 Apply now, email: [email protected]

22/10/2025

We’re excited to announce that Wildlife Recovery Australia is a Gold Charity Partner for the TCS Sydney Marathon in 2026! 💚

After its first year as an Abbott World Marathon Major, Sydney has proven it’s one of the most iconic and picturesque courses in the world, and now one of the most sought-after races on the planet. 🏃‍♀️🌏

By joining Team Wildlife Recovery Australia, you can guarantee your place in the marathon through a Charity Place (with a $3,000 fundraising commitment), or, if successful in the ballot, create your own fundraising page to support wildlife care and recovery. 🐨🦘

Every dollar raised helps deliver lifesaving veterinary treatment, education, and research through our mobile and permanent wildlife hospitals—helping native animals survive and thrive for generations to come. 💚

👉 Get started or apply here- https://sm26.grassrootz.com/wra

20/10/2025

✨THANK YOU!✨

On Saturday, we were delighted to open our doors to our amazing ambassadors, wildlife rescuers and carers, and Northern Rivers community to showcase the incredible work our team are doing for our precious wildlife!🏥

We are truly grateful for your support, we cannot do this vitally-important work without you! 🤝

🐍 If you would like to support our wildlife hospital, please consider donating (https://hubs.la/Q03PfS5q0) or volunteering (email [email protected])!

19/10/2025

📣 We'd like to share some exciting news...! 📰

You're going to start seeing 👀 the name "Wildlife Recovery Australia (WRA)" in our social media posts, emails, and on our website, so we'd like to formally introduce you!

🦉Who is Wildlife Recovery Australia (WRA)?
WRA is the parent company of Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital. It is a registered charity specialised in operating wildlife hospitals, rehabilitation centres and native animal sanctuaries.
WRA has three facilities in the Northern Rivers:
🏥 Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital HQ (Lennox Head), the Northern Rivers first all species wildlife hospital.
🚛 Wildlife Recovery Australia Hospital, aka Matilda, Australia’s first and only mobile wildlife hospital
🦅 Byron Bay Raptor Recovery Centre (Ewingsdale), a purpose-built facility comprising large round aviaries to rehabilitate birds of prey such as eagles, raptors, falcons, kestrels, kites and owls

Under WRA, Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital and our associated organisations will continue to treat, rehabilitate and release sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, and through state and national partnerships, strive to be on the forefront of conservation efforts both in the Northern Rivers and Australia-wide!🤩

We are truly grateful 🙏 to our incredible wildlife rescuers and carers who work tirelessly year-round helping our precious wildlife, and our amazing community who have supported us from day one- we could not do this work without all of you!

16/10/2025

🌿🐾 Retired Veterinary Nurses – We Need You! 🐾🌿

Are you a retired vet nurse and still passionate about helping animals?
Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital is seeking volunteer retired veterinary nurses to support our team as we establish new operational processes at our new hospital.

This is a fantastic way to:
✅ Have a flexible volunteer role, come in when you can
✅ Stay connected to the profession you love
✅ Share your valuable skills and experience
✅ Make a difference for Australia’s wildlife

If you’d like to be part of our dedicated volunteer team, we’d love to hear from you!
Please email: [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

16/10/2025

📣 COMMUNITY OPEN DAY 🎉

Join us this Saturday October 18th for a special tour of our new hospital in Lennox Head!

WHAT'S ON:
🐸 Guided tours of Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital with CEO Dr Stephen Van Mil (tours depart every 15 minutes in pre-allocated slots.)
🐍 Interactive and educational wildlife-themed craft activities.
☕ Locally roasted coffee by Wowzer Coffee (for purchase)
🍩 Local tasty treats, including delicious ice creams from local legends YumBar
👕 Merchandise clearance sale (all proceeds go to help treat sick, injured and orphaned wildlife)

WHERE:
Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital HQ- 7/48 Ballina Street, Lennox Head

WHEN:
Saturday October 18th, 9am-11am

Guided tour spots are limited, so secure yours now- https://hubs.la/Q03NS1wj0

14/10/2025

An amazing group of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine students from the University of Sydney took on the ‘Beards for Byron’ ✂️🧔 challenge — growing (and then shaving!) their beards to raise funds for Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital. 🦉🐨🦅

Thanks to their creativity, commitment, and incredible community spirit, they raised an epic $4,275 to help us care for sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife. 🌿

A huge shoutout to Shaun Warden and the entire team for leading this brilliant initiative — we’re so grateful for your support and passion for protecting Australia’s native species. 💚👏

Have your own idea and what to create a difference for Wildlife? Head to our Fundraising Hub to create your own fundraising page today -https://hubs.la/Q03NdcKl0

14/10/2025

Leave some 💚 for "Tally"!

"Tally" is a teeny-tiny Eastern Carpet Python who was recently brought into the hospital by amazing local snake-protector Mark .
"Tally" is only a young python but she appeared to be struggling to thrive. She was underweight, constipated, had a laceration to her neck, and was having issues shedding- including the scale over her eye.👁️

snakes don't have eyelids?👀
Instead, they have a clear scale over the eye which protects it from contamination or trauma. They keep the scale- called a spectacle- clean by licking it!👅

Our incredible veterinary team performed surgery to stitch up "Tally's" wound, gently and carefully removed the loose shedding skin (called a "slough"), gave fluids and antibiotics, and lubricated the eye to assist in shedding the spectacle. "Tally" is now in care with Mark until she is given a clean bill of health for release back into the wild!🌳

Snakes are incredible animals and are vitally important for the health of our ecosystems. Please 🙏 treat them with respect, maintain a safe distance, keep pets and children away from them, and avoid using pesticides such as ratbait- which can cause life-threatening illnesses to predators and non-target species.

13/10/2025

🍾 Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital turns 5 years old! 🎉

Last week Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital celebrated our 5th birthday 🎂 and more than 10,000 wildlife patients treated 🦜, with the official launch of our new bricks-and-mortar wildlife hospital and a striking new livery for our mobile wildlife hospital “Matilda”!

Under our parent brand, Wildlife Recovery Australia (WRA), we are proud to now operate three state-of-the-art facilities dedicated to the treatment 🩺 and rehabilitation 💪🏽 of sick, injured and orphaned Australian wildlife!

Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital HQ 🏥, Wildlife Recovery Australia Hospital 🚛, and Byron Bay Raptor Recovery Centre 🦅 are unique facilities which allow us to treat more wildlife patients in our region, but also nationally through our mobile capacity.
With our fixed-location hospital now established, our mobile hospital can be deployed for research, field operations, education tours, and rapid disaster response 🚨!

We also celebrated a 5-year partnership with UD Trucks Australia by revealing a new livery, depicting a 3D panoramic landscape populated with Australian wildlife 🐨.
The original artwork forms a striking skin for a new-generation UD Quon GK17460 🚛, delivering next-generation safety, efficiency, and power to Australia’s largest mobile wildlife hospital as it takes critical care directly to wildlife impacted by bushfires, floods, and disease outbreaks.♥️

Special thanks to James D. Morgan and Peter Frare for capturing our special day, and to our special guests Mayor Sarah Ndiaye, Mayor Sharon Cadwallader, and the team at UD Trucks!🦘

Address

7/48 Ballina Street
Knockrow, NSW
2478

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm
Sunday	10am - 2pm

Telephone

+611300945354

Website

http://www.byronbaywildlifehospital.org/

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Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

Our veterinarians have banded together to build and operate Australia’s Largest Mobile Wildlife Hospital. A Mobile Hospital dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of injured native Australian wildlife.

“Australia's bushfire crisis killed one billion native animals and highlighted the massive gap in facilities to rescue, treat and rehabilitate injured wildlife throughout the country,” said our CEO and Founder Dr Steve van Mil.

The fully equipped mobile hospital will operate from a custom-built semi-trailer based in the Northern Rivers NSW, and will be able travel throughout Australia to go where injured wildlife are in times of crisis. It is planned to be operational by early September 2020.

“Treating traumatised and injured native animals is a specialist field. Without specialists vets, nurses and the right equipment, rehabilitation and recovery is much less likely, putting the individual animal and full species at risk.”