2/12/09: Victoria Burning - Help Animal Fire Victims

Please review resources below to see WHO and HOW to help. PHOTOS: Help For Wildlife, Victoria (Australia)

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1. Animal Relief Efforts You Can Help. Millions Died...
EYEWITNESS TO THE FIRES — VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
KINSHIP CIRCLE DIRECTORY

•	HELP FOR WILDLIFE WILDLIFE IN FIRES: www.helpforwildlife.com/bushfires/how_to_help.html DONATE BY MAIL: Help For Wildlife, PO Box 181 Coldstream, VIC 3770, Australia ph: 0417 380 687
•	WILDLIFE VICTORIA’S URGENT BUSHFIRE APPEAL DONATE ONLINE: www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=43 BY MAIL: Jon Rowdon, President, Wildlife Victoria Reply Paid 84688 MELBOURNE VIC 3000 DIRECT DEPOSIT: Account Name: Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Account Bank Name: Commonwealth Bank BSB: 063 806 Account: 1007 7387
•	NIGEL'S ANIMAL RESCUE DONATE BY MAIL: Nigel’s Animal Rescue, PO Box 1096 Hartwell 3124 ph: 0427 533 083 ONLINE INFORMATION: www.animalrescue.com.au/fire_crisis.php
•	RSPCA — INJURED/DISPLACED COMPANION ANIMALS DONATE ONLINE: https://wic032p.server-secure.com/vs138364_secure/Default.aspx?ReferredFrom=rspcavic_header BY MAIL: Bushfire Appeal, RSPCA Victoria 3 Burwood Highway Burwood East VIC 3151 ph: 03 9224 2222 DIRECT DESPOSIT: RSPCA Bushfire Appeal BSB 083-153 A/c 868326451 Email your contact info to: accounts@rspcavic.org.au (name, address, date, amount donated)
•	IFAW / ASIA-PACIFIC DONATE ONLINE: www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/donate_now/index.php?msource=DR090202001
•	WILDLIFE RESCUE & INFORMATION INC EMAIL: secretary@wrin.asn.au DONATE ONLINE: www.wrin.asn.au/payments.htm BY MAIL: W.R.I.N. Inc., P.O. Box 2412 Bendigo, VICTORIA 3554, AUSTRALIA
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES + NEWS LINKS:
•	DOGS Victoria Bushfire Appeal
•	Australian Wildlife Health Centre / RACV Wildlife Connect 13 11 11
•	Millions of animals feared dead
•	Millions of animals dead in Australia fires
•	Koala rescued from Australia's wildfire wasteland
•	Wildfire toll could surpass 200
2/10/09: Kangaroos are seen amid a charred landscape in the aftermath of a bushfire which continues to blaze across Victoria, at Chum Creek in Healesville, Australia. Luis Ascui / Getty Images

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2. Nigel’s Animal Rescue: Send Money & Supplies ASAP
2/9/09, FULL STORY: Victoria Fire Crisis – Your Urgent Assistance Is Required

NIGEL’S ANIMAL RESCUE – CENTRAL HUB FOR DONATIONS & SUPPLIES:

SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS:

Hay, Straw Medical Supplies Transport for injured animals 5cm coplus & soffban 0.9% sodium chloride 1 litre bags Giving sets / Extension sets Silvazine / Baytril injectable Alfaxan CD / Solosite Heat pads/packs

Food Cat-Dog-Chaf Cages Transportable Collapsible / Temporary pens 4g and 22g catheters (prefer introcan but anything is fine) Idexx urea and creat slides Gloves / Swabs / Bedding Melolin 10cm x 10cm Tramal injectable / Temgesic injectable IV Drip pumps J 1ml, 3ml, 5, 10ml, 20, syringes

DONATE TO NIGEL'S ANIMAL RESCUE:

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3. Wildlife Victoria: Overwhelmed With Fire Victims
2/09, FULL STORY: Bushfires threaten wildlife survival – affected wildlife already in care

The fires have devastated our wildlife, including the loss of at least two wildlife shelters... Wildlife rescuers are preparing for one of the largest operations in our history once we can safely enter fire grounds... Unfortunately we cannot take volunteers at this time unless they’re already trained. If people want to help — please donate to the appeal.

FOR INJURED ANIMALS, ONLY: 13 000 94535 (13 000 WILDLIFE), 24 hours

DONATE TO WILDLIFE VICTORIA’S URGENT BUSHFIRE APPEAL:

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4. Help For Wildlife: Long Recovery Ahead For Animals

SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS:

PHOTO: Help For Wildlife, Victoria (Australia) POSTED COMMENT IN BEST FRIENDS AUSTRALIA NETWORK: http://network.bestfriends.org/foaaustralia/news/ The Help for Wildlife response team — based in the vicinity where Kinglake/Healesville fires occurred — are on standby to enter fire grounds when safe to rescue injured wildlife. They already have a number of animals in care and are expecting many more. Kangaroos and wallabies found in abundance in this area can take months to recover and require a great deal of dressings and medication.

silverzine cream / non-stick dressings saline / disinfectant/clorhexidine feed / hay (for starving wildlife)

soft bandages / vet wrap syringes / pain relief / antibiotics Donations for fuel (to carry out the extensive search and rescue)

DONATE TO HELP FOR WILDLIFE:

PHOTO: Parched koala bear gets a drink from a biker

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5. RSPCA: Emergency Aid For Companion Animals
2/12/09, FULL STORY: HOW RSPCA IS HELPING BUSHFIRE VICTIMS

HOW RSPCA IS HELPING BUSHFIRE VICTIMS:

DONATE TO RSPCA - INJURED/DISPLACED COMPANION ANIMALS:

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6. Wildlife Burning
2/12/09, FULL STORY: Animals fall victim to Australian fire

Sam, a koala saved from the bushfires, is treated 2/11/09 at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Center in Rawson, Australia. AP PHOTO. Animals fall victim to Australian fire SYDNEY — Wildlife rescue officials worked frantically to help the animals that made it through Australia’s worst-ever wildfires, but they said millions of animals likely perished in the inferno. Hundreds of burned, stressed and dehydrated animals -- including kangaroos, koalas, lizards and birds — already have arrived at shelters across the scorched region. Rescuers have doled out antibiotics, pain relievers and fluids to the critters in a bid to keep them comfortable, but some of the severely injured were euthanized to spare any more suffering.

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7. IFAW: Team On The Ground For Animals In Victoria
2/12/09, FULL STORY: Bushfire Emergency
FULL STORY: Bushfire emergency in Australia - a message from Erica Martin

	Photo © IFAW / M. Fillinger. 2/11/09, IFAW helps Victoria's animal victims IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) has sent an emergency relief team to help wild and domestic animals affected by the devastating fires in Victoria. Tania Duratovic is leading the IFAW team in Whittlesea. We arrived in Whittlesea (2/9/09) and set up in the staging area...
Today we traveled to Kinglake West and Kinglake Central — two of the worst hit areas. Remnants of trees and piles of rubble are all that is left of what used to people’s homes and indeed whole towns. People are happy...to see something emerge alive from the devastation. As one person recounted as they handed over a slightly burned ring-tailed possum, “We have lost our house, our neighbours and our pets but we found this little guy alive —please help him, I just want him to live.”
IFAW vet Dr. Howard Ralph administered first aid and the possum is now under the care of Help for Wildlife volunteers. Dr. Ralph, is a renowned vet, burns specialist and human doctor. He is helping local vets treat pets at the survivors’ shelter in Whittlesea. Photo © IFAW / M. Fillinger So far we have been able to provide immediate aid to many animals suffering from the effects of the fire including dogs, cats, horses, ducks, chickens, wallabies, possums, kangaroos, joeys, koalas, a peacock, a lyrebird, a goat, a dingo and an orphaned baby deer... ONGOING IFAW UPDATES FROM THE FIELD: www.animalrescueblog.org/2009/02/bushfire-update.html#more

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8. Survivors Of The Fire – Symbols of Hope
2/11/09, FULL STORY: Aussies find symbols of hope in two koalas

A koala nicknamed Bob puts his paw around fellow fire survivor Sam at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson, Australia. Colleen Wood / Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter via Reuters. Aussies find symbols of hope in two koalas SYDNEY — A bond between two burned koalas rescued from Australia's deadliest wildfires has provided some heart-warming relief after days of devastation and the loss of more than 180 lives and possibly millions of animals. The story of the koalas emerged after volunteer firefighter David Tree used a mobile phone to photograph and film the rescue of the bewildered female, since nicknamed Sam, that was found cowering in a burned-out forest at Mirboo North, 90 miles southeast of Melbourne.
But it was after reaching a wildlife shelter that Sam met and befriended another koala, nicknamed Bob, who was saved by wildlife workers two days before Sam, in Boolarra, about 110 miles from Melbourne... CONTINUE STORY
	Photos and video of Tree, 44, approaching Sam while talking gently to her, and feeding her water from a plastic bottle as she put her burned claw in his cold, wet hand quickly hit YouTube, making her an Internet sensation.

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