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We are highly experienced, qualified, ethical and dedicated volunteer wildlife rescuers & carers, answering the call to rescue, rehabilitate and release to all native and indigenous animals on Magnetic Island.

25/12/2024

🌟Merry Christmas to all 🦘🎄
Have a safe and happy day, and always drive carefully and look after all our beautiful wildlife 🐨🦜

03/12/2024

🐦🥰Theres a few migratory Terns that have been found exhausted on the beach fronts.
It could be from a long flight, running into storms and hunger.
This little one is doing much better now and we'll release once this beauty is back to full health.
Please keep a look out for these lovely sea birds and give us a call if you see any struggling 🐦🥰

28/08/2024

🦘❤️There's lots of babies, young wallabies, and other species, around on our beautiful Magnetic Island, especially at the moment, and especially at night.

We urge you to please drive slowly and carefully.🙏🦘🐨

Although the wildlife seems to be in abundance, it only seems that way.
This is an island, one of the last refuges for wildlife like the endangered Koalas and precious protected Australian species.

Australian wildlife is seriously under too much pressure and threat on the mainland.

Please help us protect the wildlife, both land and sea of Magnetic Island.

There is no need to rush here 🐨🌿

27/08/2024

Aerial burning going on atm to burn off build up of leaf litter etc.
For more information - https://parks.desi.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/24439

If you see any injured wildlife, please get in touch with us or one of the wildlife groups on Magnetic Island 🐨🙏

12/03/2024

🥰 Please be careful when youre driving and parking as the stunning Red-tailed Cockatoos can be seen all over Magnetic Island at the moment, especially down at Horseshoe Bay. They walk around on the ground and road sometimes, so please keep an eye out for them.
A few of them return yearly to our sanctuary as they love the figs, and love making a big mess, but thats ok, they are absolutely beautiful.
Love nature and wildlife 🥰

12/01/2024

If youre fortunate, you will see these gentle giants around Magnetic Island.
They are often mistaken for a shark or dolphin, but once you see that beautiful face you'll never forget them 💗

24/12/2023

Wishing everybody a very safe and happy Christmas 🦘🐨🌟

13/12/2023

Quite windy and rough seas today.
We saw this beautiful young Brahminy Kite doing some fishing at Arcadia this morning.
I hope it keeps safe from those waves and catches a good meal 🦅🥰

14/11/2023

Another rescue baby brushtail possum who is lucky to be alive.
We feel we must inform everyone on Magnetic Island that there has been a high influx of possums that have been getting poisoned by rat bait.
We understand that some of you may not like possums but to use rat bait is a most horrific method.
The mother of this little one was poisoned by rat bait and died a horrific death 😢
But, if you have a possum issue, then please call us as we will try to trap it and rehome.
This is an island, 3/4 National Park, you came to live here with the beautiful wildlife.
So we urge you to consider what poison you are laying around as it just doesnt kill possums, it will poison any animal that comes in contact with it, including domestic animals.
We urge you to call us before any poisons are used.
Think before using these poisons please.
You have no idea how devastating it is to be called into rescue poisoned animals.
Thankyou 🙏🏼

28/08/2023

Update on "Thor" - the Baby Koala Rescue ❤️🐨
Meet Thor ⚡️- the little baby we found in our enclosure (see below post).
As you can see, he's going really well at the moment.
Such a sweet little boy. Big thankyou to the Koala Hospital Magnetic Island for their expert love and care 🙏

Now that Thor is on the road to recovery, we'll let you know that we have no idea where his mum is and sadly we know there are a number of irresponsible dog owners in our area(and other areas of MI). Thor could have dropped while mum was set upon by a dog 😪. There are very few other reasons why baby Thor was alone and hiding. Koala mothers are super protective and loving.

We are still looking for Mum, but we simply can't find her. We'll continue to look and hope, but we are furious at the irresponsible dogs owners, who we have repeatedly told to keep control of their dogs. Unfortunately they don't seem to care. We know it's not the dogs fault but pets/family members are only as good as their owners...having said that, you can understand what we're dealing with.....

The concern with baby Thor was he was so young, possibly dehydrated, possible pneumonia, and as he was so quiet possibly dying.
It was so fortunate we were doing the daily clean up, but hadn't moved the old pillow/couch for a few days!

Beautiful Thor ⚡️is delightful and oh so beautiful 😍 Let's hope he continues his journey to full health 🙏

Be kind to all animals, protect our wildlife and beautiful environment please 🙏

Magnetic island Wildlife Care- 0427 918 130 🦘🐨🦜

26/08/2023

Baby Koala 🐨 ❤️
We were doing a bit of a clean up in one of the enclosures and moved an old pillow, to our surprise there was this baby koala fast asleep tucked underneath!!!

Mum was nowhere in sight.
We were absolutely stunned and very worried about this baby, too small to be away from Mum.

So we called up the Magnetic Island Koala Hospital who took the little one into care.
We're happy to say the little one is doing well at the moment 🥰

We still haven't found Mum yet and are worried she may have been hurt by a dog, from an irresponsible dog owner...

With all the Koala habitat destruction going on over on the mainland (which is so shocking and so wrong), Magnetic Island is one place where they are relatively safe for now.

Please drive slowly around the island to avoid hitting any of our lovely wildlife. Koalas start moving around 345pm and throughout the night, but many other wildlife species move through the day. Please please please drive slowly 🙏
Be kind to all animals please🙏

Magnetic Island Wildlife Care - MIWC 0427 918 130

08/08/2023

We love our Koalas on Magnetic Island ❤️ 🐨 we love them everywhere in Australia 🇦🇺
We've had a special request to help save the Toowoomba Koalas. Main Roads are building a new highway straight through Koala habitat. Why cant these infrastructure and road designers avoid these areas? So tragic, lets help our Southern friends 🐨 please🙏
Here's the information.

"Please help save Toowoomba's koalas 🐨
The Department of Transport and Main Roads has proposed a new highway just west of Toowoomba, which will tear through mature koala habitat used for breeding and migrating during droughts.
Please sign the following Parliamentary Petition - if 10,000 signatures are reached, DMR will have to reconsider its highway proposal.
And then please share it with your friends and family who live in Queensland"

Yes we're certainly will sign 🐨❤️🐨❤️🐨❤️ please sign too 🙏🐨❤️
Here's the link https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/Petition-Details?id=3924

14/07/2023

Please drive slowly and safely around the island, especially from late afternoon onwards.
This young girl was clipped by a car and is healing.
We understand sometimes the Agile and Rock Wallabies can suddenly jump out in front of traffic, but we've also observed numerous vehicles speeding around for no reason.
Please take care and love the animals.

17/05/2023

🐨 ❤️🐨 ❤️
Koalas were moved to Magnetic Island in the 1930's to help save/protect the species from the multiple threats on the mainland.

All these years later, the population of Koalas on MI are vitally important as infrastructure, loss of habitat, human impact, feral dog threats, etc is leading to the massive decline in the Koala population on mainland Australia.

If this is not brought under control, it will lead to extinction, locally, state wide and country wide.
Please do your best to keep these beautiful animals safe.

For starters, stop cutting down their trees/home/habitat/food 🌳 and please keep your dogs inside your yard or on a leash when walking them.

Here are a couple of photos of a pair of wild male and female Koalas who have lived for years near our rescue site.
We checked in on them when we heard the "crying" noise Koalas will make when they're upset about something.
As we got closer, the baritone grunting of a male Koala was heard.

What was happening was the male was doing his best to attract the female and she was not interested at all!

Long story short, the male eventually left the female in peace, they both climbed into separate trees and went to sleep 😴 🐨 🐨

Please be careful on the roads, especially after 345pm as the Koalas begin moving around.

Remember there's no need to speed on an island.
Love nature, be kind to our beautiful wildlife.

Magnetic Island Wildlife Care - 0427 918 130

21/04/2023

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo 💥
While going around Magnetic Island, you may have seen and/or heard, these gorgeous birds! The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo's have a lovely and very distinct call (krurr-rurr-kee or krurr-rak) 🎶

There's 5 species of Black Cockatoos in Australia and 4 subspecies of Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. They're all beautiful, but we got to say we think our Red-tails on Magnetic Island are super beautiful 🥰

You can see them all over the island at certain times of the year. The best view is when you're swimming at Horseshoe Bay and they're up in the trees along the beach front.

Yep, Magnetic Island certainly is beautiful and home to so much stunning wildlife 🦜

Please drive slowly and watch out for all the animals 🙏

Magnetic Island Wildlife Care 🐨🦎🦜🐬🦘
For rescues and wildlife information please call us on 0427 918 130 or Inbox us and we'll get back to you asap 🏝 🌞 🌊 🥰

31/03/2023

Gliding beauty 🥰
While you're moving around the waters of Magnetic Island, you may be fortunate to see these gorgeous Whitespotted Eagle Rays whether you're swimming, boating or just walking beside the sea 🌊
This one was seen near Nelly Bay, but they are present all around the island.

They're quite special as they were once thought to be common around the world in various tropical areas, however it was discovered in 2010 that the ones in the Indo/Pacific region belong to a separate species!

Please be kind to all animals on our beautiful island, land, sea and air 🥰🙏

If you see any wildlife injured or in distress, please call us 24/7 on 0427 918 130.

25/02/2023

Please drive slowly around the island, especially in the evenings and night 🦘🐨🙏

Over the last couple of days, we have seen too many animals hit on the roads around the island 😢

We understand sometimes the animals can dart out on the roads and accidents happen. However, there are areas of roads on the island where extra care must be taken.

Around every hill, there are safety railings and all the wildlife are much slower navigating around them.

Hot spots are:
* The entire road between Horseshoe Bay, The. Forts to Arcadia.
* The hill of Gabul Way over to Nelly Bay, and
* The hill of Hawkins Point to Picnic Bay

Please slow down 🦘
There's no need to speed 🐨

The saddest animal hit this week happened on the Hawkins Point hill heading to Picnic Bay where a baby Rock Wallaby, like the one in this photo, was killed while trying to cross with its mother.

If you see anyone racing around the island at speed or driving stupidly, please get their number plate and report them.

Love nature, be kind 🦘🙏

13/02/2023

Wishing everyone a Happy Valentines Day ♥️

Magnetic Island is home to an array of Skinks and Lizards 🦎
One of the gorgeous skinks you may see is this little fella called the Orange-flanked Rainbow Skink!
If you're fortunate enough to see one of these skinks, quietly watch them and you'll see the beautiful colours of their skin, and their very interesting and unique swishing little tails as they crawl along !
As with all skinks and lizards, this very pretty skink plays a very important role in the ecosystem helping to keep the insect and spider population under control 🦎 ♥️

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Dinner is served your majesty 🤣 Our rescued now released brushtailed possum "Bongo" has found one of our wild possum boxes to live in. We have check on him so metimes early evening, as he was in bad shape on rescue, but he's doinh so well now. Such a sweety, and he loves a sweet potato snack! 🥰

Meet Miak - Orphaned, clipped by a car, starving, rescued, healing ❤️🙏 Please drive slowly on the island. There is no need to speed. Be kind to animals 🙏

Hannah ❤️🦘 - orphaned, rescued, over the worst, on the mend and a beautiful angel 🦘❤️ Thankyou to the kind person and their amazing gentle dog who found her 🙏

Quite windy and rough seas today. We saw this beautiful young Brahminy Kite doing some fishing at Arcadia this morning. I hope it keeps safe from those waves and catches a good meal 🦅🥰

Update on "Thor" - the Baby Koala Rescue ❤️🐨 Meet Thor ⚡️- the little baby we found in our enclosure (see below post). As you can see, he's going really well at the moment. Such a sweet little boy. Big thankyou to the Koala Hospital Magnetic Island for their expert love and care 🙏 Now that Thor is on the road to recovery, we'll let you know that we have no idea where his mum is and sadly we know there are a number of irresponsible dog owners in our area(and other areas of MI). Thor could have dropped while mum was set upon by a dog 😪. There are very few other reasons why baby Thor was alone and hiding. Koala mothers are super protective and loving. We are still looking for Mum, but we simply can't find her. We'll continue to look and hope, but we are furious at the irresponsible dogs owners, who we have repeatedly told to keep control of their dogs. Unfortunately they don't seem to care. We know it's not the dogs fault but pets/family members are only as good as their owners...having said that, you can understand what we're dealing with..... The concern with baby Thor was he was so young, possibly dehydrated, possible pneumonia, and as he was so quiet possibly dying. It was so fortunate we were doing the daily clean up, but hadn't moved the old pillow/couch for a few days! Beautiful Thor ⚡️is delightful and oh so beautiful 😍 Let's hope he continues his journey to full health 🙏 Be kind to all animals, protect our wildlife and beautiful environment please 🙏 Magnetic island Wildlife Care- 0427 918 130 🦘🐨🦜 #savekoalas #saveaustralianwildlife #savesustralia #stoprenewablenergyplowingdowncriticalhabitat

🦘♥️This little boy was in a car accident that left him injured and orphaned. He's healing well, hopping well, and on his way to full health and release soon♥️🦘 Please drive carefully on the roads, our wildlife is everywhere on Magnetic Island. Please dont speed🙏 Magnetic Island Wildlife Care - MIWC 0427 918 130

Beware of these hairy caterpillar. You may see them around your place but please don't touch with bare hands as they cause quite an intense sting, inflammation of the skin and more. We know of a number of dogs on MI who've lost their fur and were in agony after encountering them. Also wildlife, typically possums, have terribly impacted. These caterpillars are known to causes horses to abort babies, but they are just as deadly to all wildlife and domestic animals. Ingestion is the worst form with their stinging barbs penetrative internal organs. Be careful. If you suspect an ani al has been stung by one of these, please get them to the Vet as soon as possible. Magnetic Island Wildlife Care 24/7 rescue 0427 918 130

Beautiful Great Carpenter Bee 🐝 ❤️ Magnetic Island Wildlife Care 0427 918 130 🐝

Another beautiful Rock Wallaby's rescue ♥️🙏 So very beautiful 🦘🥰

Please keep this little girl in your hearts. She was attacked by dogs. She's over the worst of her wounds but needs much love and care. Fir dog owners please keep your dogs in a fenced enriched yard and or a leash when walking them. Thankyou - Magnetic Island Wildlife Care. We're open 24/7 for all wildlife help or emergencies 0427 918 130

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