Our Charities

WIRES has a network of over two thousand rescuers and wildlife rehabilitiators and around 400 supporting veterinary practices. These volunteers help almost 50,000 sick, injured, orphaned or displaced native animals every year. WIRES rescues all native animals - whether it is a duck stranded on a busy city railway station, a black necked stork blown way off course from another State, a flying fox caught in netting on a fruit tree, a stranded turtle on a beach, a python trapped under the bonnet of a car or a rare glider injured by barbed wire.

WIRES also acts as a voice for native animals, lobbying Governments over issues related to their welfare, their humane treatment and their conservation. They play an educational role in programmes for schools and talks to community groups to help people live in harmony with Australia's unique wildlife and understand its role in our environment.

Whatever their needs, WIRES is there for all of them. 

www.wires.org.au

In many countries, companion animals are much more than our best friends – they are part of the family. Sadly, this is not the case for millions of dogs and cats throughout China, where their lives and fate are much different. Bred in their thousands as livestock, raised in appalling conditions with no veterinary care, no free access to food and water, packed dozens to a cage and transported in filthy conditions to be slaughtered in the most vile and painful ways imaginable.  The scale of the cruelty is immense, but there is hope. 

Under the umbrella of the “Friends…or Food?” campaign, Animals Asia’s pets as therapy program Dr Dog sees over 350 “dog doctors” visiting hospitals, homes for the elderly, disabled centres and orphanages across Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Japan, India, Taiwan and Malaysia, spreading unconditional love and warmth to people in need, while highlighting the positive role that companion animals can play in society. 

www.animalsasia.org