Every one of them has a road behind them

Animals in our care

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  In careWestern grey kangaroo · arrived March 2026

  Willow

  Pulled from her mother's pouch on the Sturt Highway at 900 grams, cold and barely responsive.

  Willow arrived weighing 900 grams — furless, hypothermic and about four months from the day she would have first put her head out of the pouch. Her carer kept her in a knitted pouch against a heat pad for six weeks, feeding a low-lactose formula every three hours through the night. She is now 4.1 kilograms, fully furred, and has begun grazing alongside two other western greys in the pre-release yard. If she keeps gaining, she will join the spring release mob.

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  ReleasedTammar wallaby · arrived August 2025

  Banjo

  A dog attack survivor from Kangaroo Island who spent eleven weeks learning to trust open ground again.

  Banjo came in with puncture wounds to his flank and hind leg after a dog attack near Parndana. Antibiotics and daily wound care kept infection at bay, but the harder work was behavioural — he flinched at every sound for weeks. Slow habituation in a quiet paddock, with no human contact beyond feeding, brought him back. He was released onto protected scrub in November 2025 and was sighted with a small group of tammars three months later.

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  In careRed kangaroo · arrived January 2026

  Pippin

  The smallest joey we have ever successfully raised — 310 grams, found by a truck driver at 2am.

  At 310 grams Pippin was on the very edge of what hand-rearing can save. A truck driver checked the pouch of a doe on the Barrier Highway, wrapped him in a beanie and drove him forty minutes to meet our rescuer. He needed two-hourly feeds, humidified warmth and constant weight monitoring for the first month. He is now over 2 kilograms and, remarkably, thriving. Pippin will be in care until at least early 2027.

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  ReleasedEastern grey kangaroo · arrived May 2025

  Harlow

  Struck by a car while carrying a joey — both survived, and both went home together.

  Harlow was hit near Mount Pleasant and sustained a fractured foot and severe bruising, with a furred joey still in her pouch. Cage rest is dangerous for adult kangaroos, so she recovered in a large, quiet paddock yard with the joey left in place throughout. Eight weeks later she was walking evenly. They were released together onto the same property she was found on, which is the outcome we always hope for.

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  Permanent residentRed kangaroo · arrived February 2024

  Dusty

  Blind in one eye and unable to judge distance in a mob — one of the few we could not send back.

  Dusty lost the sight in his left eye to an untreatable injury before he came to us. Releasing a kangaroo who cannot judge the position of a fence, a road or a dominant male is a death sentence, so after a long assessment period we made the difficult call to keep him. He lives on protected land with two other non-releasable animals and is the calmest teacher our new carers could ask for.

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  In careBrush-tailed rock wallaby · arrived October 2025

  Marlo

  An endangered species orphan whose rehabilitation is being run alongside state recovery ecologists.

  Brush-tailed rock wallabies are endangered in South Australia, so Marlo's care is coordinated with state recovery ecologists and follows a specific protocol: minimal handling, species-appropriate browse, and rocky terrain in his enclosure so he develops the foot strength his habitat demands. He is destined for a monitored release site rather than a general one, and every measurement we take is shared with the recovery program.