Wildlife Conservation Activities

Animals, plants, insects and even microbes have an important role in nature, so extinction of even one species can have great consequences.

Does everybody know the cassowary, a large bird that lives in Queensland, Australia? It is found in the tropical rainforests and primarily eats fruits. These forests exist are also home to plants that cannot germinate without being ingested by and passing through the digestive system of, cassowaries. The cassowary is an endangered species. If cassowaries become extinct, so may the plants that rely on the cassowary.

 From the perspective of conserving Earth’s ecosystem, AJWCEF aims to see sick and injured animals rescued and nursed back to health so they can be reintroduced into the wild. To this end, we support the Queensland Government’s efforts in wildlife conservation. Your support contributes to helping treat animals through the purchase of medicine and other necessities.

Rescuing animals that have lost their parents in road accidents is another important activity. Many of Australia’s fauna are marsupials, carrying and raising their young in their pouches. As such, it is common for the parents to be injured while the offspring is protected. In these cases, certified animal cares take over the role of the mother to raise the young until they are ready to be released back into the wild. Many of these carers are volunteers and will pay the costs of raising the animals themselves. AJWCEF has partnered programs, like those at Ipswich Koala Protection Society, to support these grassroot activists. The milk and blankets that were procured thanks to your support has saved the lives of many animals.

With urban development, there is an ever-increasing number of animals facing extinction. For this reason, only 130 northern hairy-nosed wombats remain, with those  only be found in Epping Forest National Park. To assist the conservation of these kinds of animals, AJWCEF has supported programs to relocate animals to safer regions, secure undisturbed natural habitats, and reforest eucalyptus forests.

In recent years, global issues of warming and other effects of climate change have become more  serious, and with a  dry climate, bushfires occur frequently in Australia. There is much concern that these changes in climate, along with bushfires, are having a grave effect on the ecosystem, necessitating ongoing monitoring. We will continue to partner with research institutes and universities to look further into these issues.