Grab a raffle ticket, help support wildlife and go into the draw to win a Pet City Gift Card! Participants may enter as many times as they like during the promotion period. If you purchase a raffle ticket online, the gift card prize will be provided for online use only.

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ALL funds raised will be donated to WIRES (NSW Wildlife, Rescue, Information & Education Service Inc) within a week of the competition end date.

 

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Why donate to WIRES?

In WIRES history we have never seen a concurrent series of emergencies events like those that began in November. Hundreds of fires over weeks have burnt over 4.9 million hectares of land in NSW alone. Many animals were already struggling with a lack of water and food due to the drought. With the fires destroying unprecedented amounts of habitat, food shortages have increased and lack of suitable habitat will be a significant long-term challenge for surviving wildlife.

It is impossible to know how many animals have perished and it will be many months before the impact on wild populations can be better understood but ecologists at Sydney University have estimated over 800 million animals have been affected in NSW and over 1 billion animals in Australia since September. 

Summer is a frantically busy time for wildlife rescue and there are still over 100 fires burning in NSW. In December alone there were over 20,000 calls to WIRES 1300 line, a 14% increase on last year, and volunteers attended over 3,300 rescues. 

Thanks to the incredibly generous support provided by the national and international community in the first week of January, WIRES is now able to offer national emergency support to assist groups working with wildlife affected by these emergency events.

To help rescue sick, injured and orphaned wildlife please support WIRES Emergency Fund.