Fundraising and Events

Do you want to fundraise and save wildlife?

• Download our Fundraising Application Form
• Check out our step-by-step guide to help you get started
• Email fundraising@wildlifewarriors.org.au for more info

Upcoming Events in 2012:

• January-April - 1 Million Kilo Challenge
• 19 February - Awakening the Dreamer: Plight of the Koala
• 25 February - HBF Rottnest Channel Swim
• 18 March - Sun-Herald Surf Swim
• 23-25 March - Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival
• 14-15 April - Australian Running Festival
• 30 June-1 July - Gold Coast Airport Marathon
• 15 July - The Age Run Melbourne
• 4 November - Noosa Triathlon Multi Sport Festival

If you have organised a fundraising event for the benefit of Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, please send us details as we would love to acknowledge it.

Awakening the Dreamer: Plight of the Koala

Sunday 19 February, 2012

Please join us as we discuss - and create - solutions for bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence for our shared planet.

When we work together, we find that every one of us does make a difference!

Morning and afternoon sessions - 9am-12pm & 2pm-5pm

Tickets $50 (concessions available) - No one turned away!

RSVP: Contact Fiona Kem Leiper on 0409 156 818

or email peacetrainps@iinet.net.au

Success Speed seminar donation

Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin recently accepted a cheque for $40,000 donated to Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors by Brett McFall, an online marketing guru who held a seminar on the Gold Coast in late November.

Brett recently visited the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital and was so inspired he decided to use his annual event to raise much-needed funds to support the facility. A MASSIVE thank you to Brett for his support!

KHAKI IT! School Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Peace Lutheran Primary School (Gatton, Qld) and their Environment Club - crowned winners of the 2011 KHAKI IT! School Challenge. This outstanding group of students successfully completed three challenges in the lead up to Steve Irwin Day, November 15, and have each won a trip to Australia Zoo and the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, as well as an Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors prize pack. Woohoo!

Support our Joey Ambassadors!

In the lead up to Steve Irwin Day, a group of passionate 4-17 year olds known as Joey Ambassadors will be presented a number of challenges encouraging them to Khaki It!, raising awareness and money for our conservation projects worldwide. These kids are the next generation of Wildlife Warriors, and come from all corners of the globe, from the UK to Canada and all around Australia.

Read more about our Joey Ambassadors,
or donate to their fundraising efforts

2011|2012 Entertainment Book

Purchase your new 2011|2012 Entertainment Book now for just $65 and receive over $15,000 in valuable offers you can use all year, at popular businesses and tourist attractions in your local area.

$13 from the sale of each book goes to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital! To order your copy visit their website or download the order form here.

Our wildlife patients need more Wildlife Warriors!

All patients at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital are treated on a “no fee” basis, with the hospital’s operating costs met by fundraising efforts and the support of a small number of sponsors. New equipment is essential in the provision of these services - you can help by donating online at our new Global Giving page

Your support will enable us to purchase vital equipment to give the best possible veterinary care to each and every one of the patients we treat. The ultimate goal for each of these patients is release back to the wild and this new equipment help us do so.

Please visit our new page and share with your friends and family - you can make a difference to the future of our wildlife!

Get your printer toners recycled

Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors and Imaging Technology Australia (ITA) are working together to recycle used printer toner cartridges to help protect our environment and wildlife.

Businesses are being encouraged to sign up to the ‘Recycling for Wildlife’ program. ITA donates funds from every empty toner cartridge collected via the program to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.

By recycling used Hewlett Packard, Canon, Brother, Lexmark and Samsung toner cartridges, you are reducing landfill and helping to save our precious wildlife. It’s easy to sign up and best of all, it’s free!

Just call ITA on 1800 077 347 or fill out the form on their website www.ita.net.au. ITA will send you a free recycling carton for you to recycle your used cartridges. Once full, ITA will then arrange a free collection service so you don’t have to worry about waste removal.

This is a great initiative to start your office recycling! Go green and walk a little on the wild side with ITA and Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors.

Beyond Reality Technology

Beyond Reality Technology is an innovative, privately owned audio/visual company with a reputation for an excellence in service across a varied range of commercial, retail and residential clients.

A percentage of profits from the sale of all AV products is donated directly to Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors for our conservation projects both here in Australia and around the world, including our major project the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. www.beyondreality.com.au

Stuck for gift ideas? Never fear, Kindred Gifts is here!

Choose from a wide range of quality kids, men's and women's gifts, as well as those quirky one-off items you'll keep for years.

Kindred Gifts shares the stories of the people who make each innovative gift so great, and are helping to make the world a better place by supporting the environment and the people and animals in it. Sounds like our kind of thing! Check out their website at www.kindredgifts.com.

Give the Gift of Karma

Karma Currency is an innovative not-for-profit organisation that allows people from across Australia to give the gift of a charity gift voucher, empowering the recipient to give to a charity of their own choice (hint: Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors!)

From medical supplies for our native Australian wildlife, to saving a tiger in the wild for 30 days, you can give the gift of wildlife conservation to your special loved one easier than ever before!

Visit Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors on www.karmacurrency.com.au and start giving today!

Become a Koala Crusader!

Did you know that Australia has the worst rate of mammalian extinction compared to any other country in the world? Unfortunately, the koala is fast becoming part of this statistic. The koala population is being ravaged by habitat loss and fragmentation, motor vehicle accidents, domestic pet attacks and most disturbingly, disease.

Chlamydial disease in koalas causes keratoconjunctivitis, urinary tract infection, kidney failure, infertility, pneumonia and flu-like symptoms and if not treated, causes a slow and painful death.

Koalas in the wild are also suffering from the koala retrovirus (KoRV), thought to cause leukaemia, bone marrow failure, cancers and an immunodeficieny syndrome ("Koala AIDS").

Unfortunately, research into these horrific diseases is labour intensive and costly. Wildlife Warriors and the Australian Wildlife Hospital have the expertise and the determination... all we need is the funding.

We need 6,000 generous people to donate $80 to cover the cost of research for the next two years.

Donations $80 and over will receive a limited edition Koala Crusader keyring and certificate for your generous contribution. Why not sign up your friends and family as a unique Christmas gift?

Donate today and become a Koala Crusader!

"We have the chance of saving the koala - if we do nothing, we will lose them... sooner or later."

Dr Jon Hanger, Director of Research and Ecological Services, Australian Wildlife Hospital.

Nab That Job - Raises Money for Wildlife Warriors

Nab That Job in Australia! is a dedicated website for assisting people who were not lucky enough to be born in Australia and are making the choice to migrate to our beautiful country.

Assistance is provided through connecting potential migrants with migration agencies, jobs, Australian employers and assisting them through their job application process.

Nab That Job in Australia! has always admired Wildlife Warriors Worldwide and our global wildlife conservation projects, and made the decision to donate 10% of their profits to assist Wildlife Warriors Worldwide to make even more of a positive impact on the planet and wildlife conservation.

David Babaii for WildAid

Support the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital and WildAid by purchasing David Babaii for WildAid hair care range with an exclusive blend of exotic, natural ingredients. These products are free of sulfates, parabens, petrochemicals and animal products, and are not tested on animals.

David Babaii for WildAid further supports the beauty in nature by donating 10% of all profits to WildAid, the global wildlife conservation organization, to help endangered animals.

Purchase these products online or direct from the Wildlife Warriors International Headquarters office or the Australian Wildlife Hospital.

Be a Hero for Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors

Everyday Hero is an online fundraising tool that allows individuals and groups to fundraise for numerous charities across Australia - including Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors!

Using Everyday Hero is useful if you are participating in some of the major fun runs around Australia. Dedicated Wildlife Warriors can collect sponsorship via this website in the lead up to their run to fundraise for wildlife conservation.

Visit the Wildlife Warriors Worldwide charity profile page on Everyday Hero to start fundraising for wildlife conservation today. The above fundraising events are listed on our page. Get fit and healthy while saving the world’s wildlife!

Charitable Recycling

Recycle your old unwanted cell phones!

If you live in the USA, you can recycle your unwanted cell phones by sending them to Charitable Recycling.

For every phone sent to them using the pre-paid shipping and packing label (download here), Wildlife Warriors USA will receive US$1 to go towards our wildlife conservation projects.

Please note, this shipping and packing label is bar-coded for Wildlife Warriors USA so there is no mistaking any phone sent to Charitable Recycling on our behalf will be credited to wildlife conservation.

Wooo-hoo!

Visit www.charitablerecycling.com for more information.

Choose Heritage to Raise Funds for Wildlife

Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors has joined with Heritage Building Society to raise funds for wildlife conservation, and you can help!

By opening a Community S@ver account with Heritage Building Society and nominating Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors as the community group you wish to support, you will be helping to raise money for our wildlife conservation projects.

The Community S@ver account is a high interest account which pays a quarterly grant to your nominated charity while letting you earn a high interest rate on your savings.

When you open an account, you will need to nominate the charity you wish to support, so make sure you choose Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors!

For further information or to open a Community S@ver account, visit your local Heritage Building Society branch, call 13 14 22 or visit www.heritageonline.com.au.

Charity Gift Cards

Everyday Hero is now also offering Charity Gift Cards. These gift cards allow the holder to make a donation to their favourite charity. Please enjoy this gift of giving, and donate to Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors.

For more information about the Everyday Hero Charity Gift Card Programme, please visit Everyday Hero and follow the links.

For further information about fundraising for Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, contact us.