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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.
ISBN: 978-1-925754-36-0 / ID: EHG20240032
File: PDF 1.16 MB / Pages 56
Name: rehabilitation-protected-native-animals-policy-240032.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; reprinted December 2020; reprinted June 2022; reprinted July 2022; reprinted January 2024 with changes.