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Rehabilitation of protected animals policy

The department’s role in the wildlife rehabilitation sector is to set consistent standards of operation and establish a strategic framework for the licensing and delivery of wildlife rehabilitation services. This policy provides the framework for achieving these objectives.
Date:
Publisher: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Cost: Free
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-76039-045-7 / ID: EH20250210
File: PDF 951.48 KB / Pages 32
Name: rehabilitation-of-protected-native-animals-policy-250210.pdf
 
Tags: PolicyWildlife rehabilitation

Key elements of the policy include:

  • information about the wildlife rehabilitation activities regulated in New South Wales
  • our approach to licensing wildlife rehabilitation providers
  • the quality assurance standards participants in the wildlife rehabilitation must satisfy to be granted a licence to operate in New South Wales
  • provisions for managing activities undertaken by wildlife rehabilitation providers.

First published in July 2010; reprinted August 2020, December 2020, June 2022, July 2022, January 2024, May 2025, June 2025 with changes.