If you are looking for a gift for a friend or family member interested in wildlife rehabilitation, the perfect gift might be a gift card from Learn Bird Care...

If you love wildlife and are due a little gift, or you're looking for a great Christmas gift or stocking filler for your friends, family members or colleague...

Australia is being ravaged by hundreds of bushfires across several states and exhausted fire crews have been extremely grateful for the assistance of New Zea...

Wildlife coming into a human environment for care and rehabilitation are exposed to stress and/or reduced immune response from their original ill-health (e.g...

WReNNZ is excited to announce a new partnership with one of our Associate Members Learn Bird Care. Learn Bird Care is run by two of WReNNZ long-term members ...

In September, to celebrate 50 years of the Department of Conservation's Conservation Week, WReNNZ held our first Wildlife Facebook Photo Competition. The com...

Seabirds commonly get storm wrecked around New Zealand's coastline. Quite often they are found to be in poor or emaciated body conditions. Refeeding a bird i...

From the 14th to 22nd of September 2019, the NZ Department of Conservation (DOC) is celebrating their 50th conservation week. To help celebrate over 50 years...

When wild birds need to be rescued because they are sick, injured or orphaned they are likely to experience extreme stress in the process. Despite the best i...

On 5th June, World Wildlife Day, WReNNZ announced the winner of our Brinsea competition, which was Dr Andrea Wilson from Nga Manu Nature Reserve. "This is tr...

The WReNNZ Committee recently elected to award Honorary Life Membership to Rosemary Tully in recognition of the early training workshops she ran, that led to...

WReNNZ offered a Conference Scholarship for rehabilitators for the recent 2019 conference in May in Christchurch. There were some fantastic applications and ...

WReNNZ Wildlife Conference for 2019 was held 10-12th May at the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch with 15 speakers sharing a range of excellent wildlife info...

In the last year WReNNZ have moved to new membership models to encourage more people to get involved in wildlife rehabilitation, directly as rehabilitators a...

WReNNZ is deeply committed to best practice rehabilitation for New Zealand wildlife and focused on continuously improving training and support for rehabilita...

Working in construction on large projects is an interesting balance between getting the job done and minimising the impact on the environment. The advocates ...

Twenty three years ago, when I came to the Moeraki lighthouse for the first time, it was to learn how to feed and handle penguins from Janice Jones – the the...

Royal Cam is a 24 hour live stream of an albatross nest during breeding season, set up by the Department of Conservation (DOC) to help protect the Northern R...

As a child, I remember rescuing a bird from the mouth of my cat and trying to do my best for the wee thing. I recall making up a box for a bird with some pap...