Rapid population growth, habitat loss and disease are threatening Australia’s iconic native wildlife.

RSPCA is home to Australia's busiest wildlife hospital, providing care to over 27,000 sick, injured and orphaned native animals every year.

The demands on our Brisbane based Wildlife Hospital are ever increasing and have now exceeded its capacity to care by almost 400%.

Built to cater for just 5,000 wildlife patients, in its first year of operation in 2012 a total of 8,359 patients were cared for. Over a decade later, our same facility takes in more than 27,000 native animals per year for medical treatment and rehabilitation. This exponential growth has created an urgent need to build a new, expanded facility.

A better future for wildlife

In planning for the new facility and selecting a land location, it was important to consider not only the animal welfare hotspots, reducing time in travel and enabling faster, more effective triage and support, it was also important to reduce the impact to land, avoiding any clearing of healthy habitat that is often required in developments.

The Redlands IndigiScapes precinct in Capalaba offers up the perfect location. Working in with the natural landscape, the new RSPCA building design leans into the natural landscape to deliver appropriate low-stress rehabilitation environments and educational spaces without the need for land clearing.

This purpose-built facility will deliver a contemporary Wildlife Hospital that meets community expectations for wildlife treatment and rehabilitation, and responds to the increasing needs of our native species, supporting the future of wildlife for decades to come.

The RSPCA Wildlife Hospital at the Redlands will provide acute care for sick and injured wildlife with surgical theatres, ICU and recovery spaces.

For our vets and nurses, this means better facilities, better outcomes and more second chances for wildlife.

Bringing this project to life

A transformational project of this size requires an investment of more than $20 million to become a reality.

This project is proudly supported and funded by the Queensland Government, the Federal Government through the Saving Koalas Fund, our generous contributions form individual donors and the gifted land by Redland City Council.

  • $12 million commitment from the Queensland Government
  • $5 million in grant funding from the Federal Government under the Saving Koalas Fund
  • $3 million in generous contributions from individual donors
  • The land at IndigiScapes from the Redland City Council

You can help build a centre that can support proactive wildlife care through education, training and research, as well as emergency care.

Support our new Wildlife Hospital

Your support will deliver a Wildlife Hospital construction and fit out that includes:

  • Advanced surgical spaces and in-house laboratory and diagnostic services
  • Specialised treatment areas tailored to the needs of different wildlife species
  • Quarantine wards to safely manage wildlife with infectious diseases
  • A dedicated koala intensive care unit for critical cases
  • Safe, species-appropriate rehabilitation enclosures for birds and macropods

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