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Possumwood Bushfire Emergency Plan
This Emergency Bushfire Plan is based on the Possumwood Wildlife experience in both the Carwoola fire of 2017 and the Black Summer fires...
Rehabilitation for post-trauma stress
Quantifying Post- trauma Stress in Macropods and the Polyvagal Theory and Therapy in Stress Rehabilitation. This paper was delivered at...
Advanced Macropod Course 2023-24. Module one: Fence entanglement rescue, treatment an rehabilitation
The first of the six modules to be presented by Possumwood as part of its Advanced Macropod Course 2023-24. The Fence entanglement...
Advanced Macropod Course 2023-24
Our fourth Advanced Macropod Training Course is a Six-module course series. Join us on the 12th of November for Module 1: Macropod Fence...
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Advanced Macropod Course 2022 - Braidwood National Theatre, July 31
- BOOKINGS ARE NOW CLOSED - Purchase the course here: https://www.possumwood.com.au/product-page/advanced-macropod-course-2022 Topics:...
Rosemary is “Australia Day Citizen of the Year” for Bungendore
On Australia Day Rosemary was recognised for her services to wildlife rescue and recovery in the Palerang Shire at a ceremony at the...
Macropod Stress Research Agenda
The significance of stress on wildlife, particularly in mammals, is not fully appreciated by rehabilitators, zoos, conservation and...
Racquet
Everybody loves Racquet and Racquet loves everybody. He was found on the side of road with a severe head injury and fractured jaw,...
Swimmer
Swimmer is a very old male swamp wallaby. During the extended dry period in Summer he got himself caught in a swimming pool fence in a...
Flossy
Flossy was a tiny furless wombat when rescued from the pouch of her dead mother. She was raised with another larger wombat named Zany....
Crackles and Dr Who
Crackles was a 5kg kangaroo joey who was found alone in a paddock being attacked by a fox (28 October, 2013). He suffered fractured ribs,...
Tammy and Danny
Tammy had been lying near a farm dam for three days without her mother before being brought into care. She was 5kg and had pelvic...
Hope
Hope was a 6kg kangaroo that was caught in a wire fence. She had a compound fracture of one of the metatarsal bones which was pinned and...
Dennis
Dennis was a 25kg male wombat rescued on a freezing cold winter’s day. He was in a debilitated state with severe, deep and badly infected...
India
India was a 700g orphaned swamp wallaby. Everyone loved India, but as she grew bigger she became very agile and naughty. She would jump...
November new-comers
Possumwood had 10 rescues in November -a bit quieter than the previous month with 20 rescues. Steve was called to help a 20 kg Eastern...
Ill wind in Wamboin: What’s killing our young eastern grey kangaroos?
There has been a mystery illness killing the juvenile (last year’s joeys) Eastern Grey Kangaroos in the Wamboin /Bywong area over the...
2020 AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRE CRISIS
Preparing for the next wildlife catastrophe Almost all the 30 fire victims that came to Possumwood have now recovered and been released....
Possumwood to be on display in India
The Wildlife Trust of India has asked Possumwood to present its work with Australian wildlife in the Protecting Animals Seminar Series at...
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