helping hand to our native wildlife

helping hand to our native wildlife

Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to raise $131,252 to help fund our emergency medical treatment, long-term hospital care and specialist rehabilitation for sick, injured, and orphaned animals.

Taronga Wildlife Hospital Sydney cares for up to 80 marine turtles every year, many of which are admitted with severe injuries caused by entanglement in fishing lines and crab pots, as well as hook and plastic ingestion. We recently had a green sea turtle hatchling which was brought to Taronga Wildlife Hospital with a stomach full of plastic. It took six days for the turtle to pass all the plastic in its system, amazingly it survived and is now doing well.

Turtle Hatchling
Turtle Hatchling
Turtle Hatchling
Turtle Hatchling

Single-use plastic bags were banned as of 1 June, in NSW. From November, other single-use plastic items will be added to the list, such as straws, stirrers, cutlery, plates, bowls and cotton buds.

We are all aware of the detrimental impact plastics have on our environment and our wildlife, but did you know that over 33% of turtles and 42% of sea birds have ingested plastic in their lifetime?

We hope the NSW Plastic’s Ban will help reduce the number of turtles admitted to Taronga Wildlife Hospital in the future.

Turtle-y cool rehab update! Just look at this little guy go - view video!