By Paul Medici | Manager, American Operations
Hello Mates!
The Australian Rainforest Foundation (ARF) received some great pictures last week from a partner of ours and a fellow member of the International Casowary Recovery Team which the ARF co-founded back in 2008. Annabelle Ollson is a veterinarian in Cairns, Queensland and she is a very important part of the cassowary recovery effort. She takes in and travels around Tropical North Queensland helping injured and sick cassowary. From car strikes, to dog bites to feral pigs chasing cassowary out of their habitat, without first responders and vets like Annabelle, injured cassoway wouldn't stand much of a chance. Recognizing first responders and community/grassroots operations is absolutely necessary and the Australian Rainforest Foundation is proud to be working with people like Annabelle and sharing some of their work with GlobalGiving donors. The International Cassowary Recovery Team hopes to raise a lot more awareness to the endangered cassowary and its World Heritage Listed habitat. The ARF is spearheading this effort and please know your donations are greatly appreciated.
This cassowary is recovering nicely and Annabelle says there is a great chance this cassowary will be released back into the wild. This is always the ultimate goal of cassowary recovery and rehabilitation. We'll keep you posted folks!! The final say so on releasing wildlife back into the rainforest is the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. If you have any questions on this bird or would like more details on the cause of the injury, where the injury occurred and so forth, please feel free to write me.
Also GlobalGiving donors, please read the following from Alison McQuade at GlobalGiving:
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Cheers,
Paul Medici
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