Darling Range Wildlife Shelter

We’re a not-for-profit, volunteer organisation that treats, cares for and rehabilitates Australian native wildlife.

Darling Range Wildlife Shelter is a volunteer, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to rehabilitate native wildlife and promote the value of biodiversity.

DRWS volunteers rescue, provide care and rehabilitate Australian native wildlife in need including threatened, endangered and migratory species. Our aim is to work towards their release back into their natural environment.

Darling Range Wildlife Shelter (DRWS), established 2005, is a volunteer organisation located in the Perth Hills. Our purpose is to rehabilitate wildlife and promote biodiversity.

Around 150 volunteers, aged 16 to 80 years, give over 30 000 unpaid hours annually; undertaking the rescue, rehabilitation and release of native wildlife in need. Wildlife is transferred to DRWS from state-wide.

To actively protect local biodiversity, DRWS volunteers install wildlife habitat boxes in response to human-wildlife conflict and environmental degradation.

DRWS has a dedicated team of volunteers who undertake wildlife rescues with a library of specialist equipment. Our rescue team works to safely and sensibly capture, restrain, and assess wildlife in need due to displacement, misfortune or disease.

Immature and severely compromised wildlife admissions, requiring around the clock care, are taken into the homes of our skilled and dedicated home carers.

Our vision is for communities which value and protect biodiversity.