Wildlife Warriors Ltd

The charity continued operating in accordance with its primary objectives of protecting and enhancing the natural environment and wildlife, including responding to severe environmental conditions across the country. The Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital (AZWH) is the primary project of the charity and operates one of the world’s largest and busiest purposebuilt hospitals. It plays a vital role in attending to and saving injured Australian native species; it has continued to lead the way in wildlife care with 9,959 admissions during the 2021/22 year. The 2021/22 year witnessed an increase in patient numbers (up from 9,899 in the 2020/21 year). In February 2022 the AZWH completed construction and opened a specialised climatecontrolled Koala Intensive Care Unit, the ‘Perry MacFarlane Intensive Care Ward’ to provide space for specialised treatments of sick or injured native wildlife. This worldclass facility includes temperaturecontrolled rehabilitation areas and a stateoftheart hyperbaric chamber. The facility has been designed specially to treat native species affected by wildfires and drought and while the facility will focus on koalas primarily, it has also been designed to assist platypus and echidnas, both of which were drastically affected by the 2019/20 bushfire season. In addition to the hospital, the Australia Zoo Rescue Team acts as an animal ambulance to respond to wildlife emergencies and provides assistance seven days a week. Further to this, Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Worldwide has numerous projects currently being undertaken around the world, including but not limited to: 1) Investigation into soft shell disease in Sea Turtles an emerging disease? In partnership with Department of Environment & Science, and the University of Queensland. 2) Reducing the impact of antimicrobial chlamydia treatment on koalas’ health treatment trial. Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. 3) Monitoring the survival of rehabilitated koalas’ postrelease. In partnership with the University of Queensland. 4) Investigating flying fox paralysis syndrome. In partnership with the University of Queensland, Wildlife health Australia, and Griffith University. 5) Identifying diagnostic and prognostic indicators of health using Longitudinal Multivariate Analysis of northern koala Hospital Admissions. In partnership with the University of Sydney. 6) PointofCare microbiome therapy in koalas’ during antimicrobial treatment for Chlamydia. In partnership with the University of Queensland. 7) Investigating chlamydial infections in wild birds. In partnership with the University of the Sunshine Coast. 8) Supporting the Cheetah Outreach’s Guarding Dog Program in Africa and the Cheetah Outreach Program in South Africa to protect this endangered species from extinction. 9) Support of Ol Pejeta’s Conservancy a 110,000acre sanctuary which provides a home to East Africa’s largest population of black rhinos. 10) Elephant protection and conservation efforts in Cambodia