Kanyana Wildlife

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For over 45 years Kanyana Wildlife has been providing hands-on specialised care and expertise to ensure our sick, injured, displaced and orphaned native animals are given a second chance.

Our Swamp Wallabies love visitors - come and meet them and our other sanctuary animals on a tour 🦘🦔🐢🦜🦉!Discovery Tours a...
14/06/2026

Our Swamp Wallabies love visitors - come and meet them and our other sanctuary animals on a tour 🦘🦔🐢🦜🦉!

Discovery Tours are a fun way to explore Kanyana and support our work with wildlife - you get a chance to peek into our wildlife hospital, see all the interactive displays in our Discovery Centre and meet our beautiful resident animals. Discovery Tours run every Thursday and Sunday morning, between 10am - 12pm.

Nocturnal Tours run on the first Friday and the second Saturday of the month, between 7 - 9pm. Nocturnal Tours give you a chance to explore Kanyana after dark, learn all about the fascinating lives of Australia's nocturnal animals and meet our beautiful night-time residents. You can see our breeding Bilbies digging, foraging and playing with their babies and you might even spot our Western Ring-tailed Possums, Brush-tailed Bettong or Eastern Barn Owl!

Tours and events can be booked through our website - or we can book a private tour for groups of 10 or more people! Email [email protected] to find out more.

https://www.kanyanawildlife.org.au/visit

Please try to check your vehicles and machinery for wildlife, when you are driving through remote areas 🦎This beautiful ...
13/06/2026

Please try to check your vehicles and machinery for wildlife, when you are driving through remote areas 🦎

This beautiful Long-nosed Dragon has found himself a long way from home, after he was discovered hiding inside machinery being transported from a mine site in Tom Price. Although we have no way of knowing what really happened, we believe that he may have moved into the machinery while searching for somewhere safe to hide (mine sites provide little habitat for wildlife). Thankfully he was uninjured by his ordeal, although he is showing signs of mild dehydration and hypothermia. He is currently being housed in a warm vivarium with plenty of live crickets to eat and dried leaves to hide in, while we plan his return home to his territory.

We are hoping to buddy and transport him with another Long-nosed Dragon patient that is currently in care at Perth Wildlife Hospital, but their patient may require a longer stay.

Long-nosed Dragons (and their fellow agamids, Gilbert’s Dragons) are sometimes known affectionately as ‘Ta-ta’ Lizards, due to their signature wave 👋 – which they perform after running across hot surfaces. They also wave, bob their heads and twitch their beautiful long tails during courtship. These arboreal lizards are found in hummock grasslands, shrublands and woodlands in WA, the NT, SA and QLD.

We hope he will soon have a chance to wave us goodbye 👋, as he heads back up into the Pilbara, where he belongs.

This is our LAST CHANCE to ask our government to protect our owls and other native predators from our most dangerous rat...
10/06/2026

This is our LAST CHANCE to ask our government to protect our owls and other native predators from our most dangerous rat baits 🦉.

Our federal government is considering a recommendation to formally declare second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARS) as *Restricted Chemical Products*, which will remove SGARS (brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, difethialone and flocoumafen) from public sale and restrict their use to licenced pest controllers.

Although the declaration will not be enough to protect wildlife from secondary poisoning by SGARS, it is the next step to limiting their harm.

It takes just 5 minutes to make a submission to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, asking them to formalise the retail ban!

Please say YES to Question 1 and NO to Questions 2 & 3.

⏰️ Submissions close TOMORROW, Thursday 11 June at 3pm, Perth time.

https://haveyoursay.agriculture.gov.au/declaring-restricted-chemical-products

Introducing WRAGWA 🦔🐢🦅!The Wildlife Rehabilitation Advisory Group of Western Australia (WRAGWA) is a collaborative allia...
09/06/2026

Introducing WRAGWA 🦔🐢🦅!

The Wildlife Rehabilitation Advisory Group of Western Australia (WRAGWA) is a collaborative alliance of Western Australia’s leading wildlife rehabilitation organisations.

Together, our member organisations care for more than 80% of the sick, injured and orphaned native wildlife admitted for rehabilitation across the state each year. We also support wildlife rescue, conservation, education, research and emergency response programs that benefit both wildlife and the communities that care about them.

WRAGWA was established to strengthen the wildlife rehabilitation sector through collaboration, advocacy, knowledge sharing and the promotion of best-practice wildlife rehabilitation. By working together, we can address sector-wide challenges, improve outcomes for wildlife and build a stronger, more sustainable future for wildlife rehabilitation in Western Australia.

Wildlife rehabilitation plays a vital role in animal welfare, conservation, community education and scientific research. Every year, tens of thousands of native animals receive care thanks to the dedication of wildlife rehabilitators, veterinary professionals, volunteers and supporters across our state.

If you are a wildlife rehabilitator and would like to learn more about how you can collaborate with WRAGWA and help strengthen the wildlife rehabilitation sector, we encourage you to visit our website for more information on Membership and Associate Membership.

Visit www.wragwa.org to learn more about our member organisations, our work and our vision for the future of wildlife rehabilitation and conservation in Western Australia.

Together, we can achieve more for wildlife!

Please help us look after our young owls, as they leave their parent's territories and start a life on their own 🦉!This ...
07/06/2026

Please help us look after our young owls, as they leave their parent's territories and start a life on their own 🦉!

This young Australian Boobook was recently found on the ground in a Maida Vale backyard, blinking painfully and unable to fly. When her kind rescuer rushed her into care, we found that she was showing signs of an impact: she was missing most of her flight feathers from her left wing and tail and a fluorescein stain revealed large superficial corneal ulcers in each of her eyes (superficial ulcers are actually more painful than deep ulcers, as they affect the nerve-rich outermost epithelial layer of the eye).

Thankfully, the ulcers have now resolved after a course of pain relief, lubricating eye drops and antibiotic eye ointments - but her flight feathers will take months to regrow 🪶.

It is a particularly sensitive time for her to be in care, as she has only recently become independent from her parents' feeding and dispersed from her natal territory. If she had not been hit by a car (the most likely cause of her injuries), she would still be out in the wild - developing her survival skills and learning how to fly, hunt and avoid predators. We have moved her to a large flight aviary in our outdoor pre-release unit, to reduce the risk of imprinting and stress, but she will require specialist care.

Thanks to her rescuer and to everyone on our team who has helped her so far 💚. Please see the comments for tips on keeping owls safe around your home and community.

Please take care when driving at night - especially during and after storms 🌩☔️🌪!This poor Tawny Frogmouth is currently ...
04/06/2026

Please take care when driving at night - especially during and after storms 🌩☔️🌪!

This poor Tawny Frogmouth is currently recovering in our nocturnal ward, after he was found cold, wet and injured in the middle of a road in Karragullen, on Tuesday night. When he arrived into the hospital, we found that he was showing signs of a traumatic impact, most likely as a result of a vehicle strike. Although his x-rays were clear, his anterior thoracic air sacs (delicate structures that form part of the avian respiratory system) have been ruptured and he has hyphaema or bleeding within the front chamber of his right eye.

We are treating him with anti-inflammatories and pain relief and our vets will be able to conduct a full intraocular exam and reassess his vision, once the bleeding has cleared from his eye. We hope he will be able to return home to his mate and home range, but his prognosis remains guarded for now.

We have seen a sharp increase in trauma cases since Perth’s storm season started on Sunday 😞. Please keep an eye out for injured, sick and displaced wildlife while driving or clearing up your property - and bring any animals straight to your nearest wildlife hospital ⛑️ (or to a 24 hour emergency vet, after hours).

We hope everyone is staying safe and warm during this wet and windy weather ⛈️🌀!Please remember to keep an eye out for a...
31/05/2026

We hope everyone is staying safe and warm during this wet and windy weather ⛈️🌀!

Please remember to keep an eye out for any injured, sick and displaced wildlife 👀, while you are out on the road or if you are cleaning up fallen trees on your property. Falling branches and trees are a serious injury risk for vulnerable animals and many may be suffering with fractures, ulcerated corneas, concussions, lacerations and internal injuries. Injured wildlife can be frightened, disoriented, in pain and vulnerable to cars, foxes and pets. Some may have lost their trees hollows or been blown off course during long flights.

Turtles are also at risk on our roads, as they are starting to travel between wetlands, in response to the rain and low pressure system.

🚑 If you find an animal in need of help, please gently catch it up in a towel and transport to us in a secure pet carrier as soon as possible (no food or water). You may need to use thick welding or gardening gloves. You can provide a safe source of heat by covering a heat pad or warm water bottle in a towel and placing it in the box, next to but not underneath the animal (so it can regulate its own heat). Please keep your car quiet and warm during transport.

☎️ Please message us anytime (or call a 24 hour vet, overnight), if you would like any advice about a rescue. If your call is about an adult kangaroo, large reptile or snake, please call the Wildcare Helpline on 9474 9055.

🌱 If you have any fallen leafy eucalyptus tips or small thin leafy branches (less than 2cm in diameter, as per the shot-hole borer guidelines), our patients would really appreciate them as well!

Thanks everyone and please stay safe.

STOP PRESS 📰 🗞We are running very low in the NEWSPAPERS we use every day in our hospital, isolation unit and breezeway, ...
30/05/2026

STOP PRESS 📰 🗞

We are running very low in the NEWSPAPERS we use every day in our hospital, isolation unit and breezeway, to keep our patients' enclosures clean and dry! If you have any newspapers in your recycling at home, we would love it if you could divert some our way, please ♻️ .

To save us time while making up enclosures, we would really appreciate it if everyone could:

✂️ please remove any STAPLED or GLOSSY sections first (we can't use these sorry)

📲 comment below or message us before you drop off, just so we can manage our shed storage (we have limited dry storage at this time of year)

🌿 If you don't have newspaper, but you do have a bucket of young, soft Eucalyptus, Banksia, Hakea, Woollybush, native Peppermint, Callistemon, Melaleuca or other local native leafy tips and flowers (no plant diseases, pesticide-free, woody materials

Address

120 Gilchrist Road
Perth, WA
6076

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 8am - 7pm

Telephone

+61892913900

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