The next wombat course is Sunday 18th September, online via Zoom. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (a link to the Zoom session will be sent to you) For further information see below or email our course coordinator, Michael Milne at laoko.training@gmail.com.
Our Annual General Meeting took place on Saturday 27 August. We’d like to thank all members who took the time to attend via Zoom. Our executive team has been confirmed for the next year as follows: President – Lisa Petroff Vice President – expressions of interest may be obtained by emailing laokosmwr@gmail.com. Secretary – Michael […]
LAOKO is holding a Basic Bird Course on Saturday 10th September from 9.30am at Snowy Monaro Regional Library (Cooma). We welcome Maryanne Gates as our course presenter. Maryanne is the Bird Coordinator for Wildcare Queanbeyan, one of our neighbouring volunteer wildlife rescue groups. She has vast experience caring for a variety of our feathered friends! ENROL HERE Or for further information email […]
Political parties and action groups have donated thousands of unwanted corflute posters to the SMWR / LAOKO mange program. Corflute plays a key part in the program as it is needed to make wombat burrow flaps, an ‘indirect’ treatment method. Free corflute has proven hard to find, so our mange program coordinator, Elena Guarracino put out the call to […]
Humane Society International Australia (HSI) has continued to fund the LAOKO wombat mange program with a generous $20,000 grant. Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue’s Mange Program Coordinator, Elena Guarracino said she is very happy and relieved and that HSI has continued to provide financial assistance for the mange program. The generous funding will pay for Bravecto® – […]
We recently received a much appreciated visit from Stacey Mole, the newly appointed Wildlife Heroes Project Manager at the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife to discuss the NSW Flood Emergency 2022 Grants made available through the Wildlife Heroes project, with funding from the NSW Government Environmental Trust. Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue (LAOKO) was one of seven wildlife […]
Snowy Mountains Wildlife Rescue received a much-needed financial boost recently from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). We were grateful to receive the annual cheque from NPWS for $2,500, which will go towards covering some of the costs incurred in rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife in the region. Our president, Lisa Petroff, says she welcomes […]
Many people may not know that there is a unique koala population in the Snowy Mountains. Koalas in the region have a number of interesting characteristics that set them apart from their northern relatives. Cold climate Snowy Mountain koalas are much bigger than the koalas in northern NSW, and research over the years has found […]
Ski season in the Snowies sadly heralds our peak season for wildlife rescue. Kangaroo, wallaby, wombat and possum joeys are often orphaned, having been retrieved from the pouch of their recently killed mother via motor vehicle accident (MVA). Nocturnal birds and other native creatures also often fall victim in this way. Rescued joeys are bottle […]
Back in January, a wombat was hit by a car on the Tantawangalo Mountain Road, between the mountains and the coast. She was severely injured and had to be euthanased by one of our trained volunteers. Afterwards, when checked, it was evident that the wombat had been shot near her spine, which would have disabled her prior […]