Koala Ankle Sock

WIRES (NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service Inc.) is Australia's largest wildlife rescue WIRES has been rescuing and caring for wildlife for over 35 years and WIRES mission is to actively rehabilitate and preserve Australian wildlife and inspire others to do the same.

WIRES is licensed to rescue and care for wildlife in NSW and we have 3,000 volunteers in 28 branches. We receive around 170,000 calls to our 1300 line annually, including thousands of interstate calls where we provide rescue advice. Annually WIRES assists tens of thousands of native animals and plays a major role in national community wildlife education. Normally WIRES has several hundred thousands unique visitors to our website but in the first week of January 2020 we received well over a million unique visitors.

Following the catastrophic fires in NSW and Australia 2019 - 2020 WIRES will be focusing on increasing our capacity to rescue and care for more individual animals and pursuing additional opportunities to help wildlife more broadly, including partnering on projects to improve long-term outcomes for native animals.