⚠️ Now Taking Expressions of Interest for Summer 2026 / 2027
This program is currently full due to high demand. See details below to express interest for future placements.
New South Wales, Australia
Expressions of Interest for Summer 2026 / 2027
Thank you for your interest in our Wildlife Rehabilitation & Farm Life program.
Due to strong demand and limited placement capacity, this project is fully booked for 2026. We are now accepting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for placements in Summer 2026 / 2027 and 2027 / 2028.
If you’re passionate about contributing to the care, rehabilitation, and recovery of native Australian wildlife, we encourage you to register your interest early.
This program operates within a small, home‑based wildlife shelter where each volunteer contributes directly to animal care — from feeding and enrichment to habitat maintenance and daily routines. Because the well-being of the animals and the quality of volunteer experience are our priority, placements are strictly limited. This is both to ensure personalised support for volunteers and to respect the capacity of the home‑stay facilities and wildlife carers on site.
More about this project
Based in New South Wales, this dedicated wildlife rescue and rehabilitation group raises and cares for injured and orphaned wildlife. After rehabilitation, the animals are released back into their natural environment. They also undertake domestic animal rescue, rehabilitation, permanent care and facilitates the re-homing and adoption of these animals.
Volunteers are involved in the care of both native wildlife and domestic animals and their release. Fire recovery efforts are still being undertaken on the property since the January 2020 Australian Bushfires, therefore, the support and assistance that volunteers give, enable the shelter owners to undertake this important work.
A typical day consists of the daily routines of feeding and watering the animals including bottle feeding the younger animals and throwing pellets to the older roos, cleaning cages& enclosures, building cages& enclosures, building and mending fences, playing with the animals, exercising the animals, wild animal rescue and release, domestic animal rescue, care& rehabilitation, domestic animal re-homing& adoption and intensive care.
Other activities include a kangaroo head count, treatments for farm animals (horses, pigs, goats, pigs, cats, etc), visits to the vet for animals’ treatment or the dairy to pick up some calves and horse transport.
Animals on site include Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Red Neck Wallabies, Bare Nose Wombats, Birds (Cockies, Galahs, Budgies), Chickens, an Alpaca, Sheep, Cattle, Goats, Dogs, Cats and a Pig.
Due to the bushfires that devastated the region, assistance is also required with vegetation management, fence repairs and fence replacement.
Volunteers must be minimum 16 years old, fluent in English and be able to take direction. Volunteers under 18 must demonstrate that they have lived out of home before and are independent.
Volunteers must be physically fit and able to work long days.
Volunteers are required to nurse and sit with young animals while feeding and exercising. They also need to go into enclosures and paddocks in order to feed animals and clean enclosures.
Fly or take a train or bus to Albury or Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Volunteers are picked up from there.
Wednesdays, all year round.
Home stay in a shared twin or private, sex-segregated rooms. Under 18 year old volunteers stay in a private room.
Breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner & snacks are provided. Vegans and vegetarians are catered for. Volunteers have access to kitchen and cooking facilities if they choose to prepare their own meals.
From AUD $121 a day
| Duration | Cost (AUD) |
|---|---|
| 1 week | $1235 |
| 2 weeks | $2100 |
| 3 week | $2965 |
| 4 weeks | $3830 |
| 5 weeks | $4695 |
| 6 weeks | $5560 |
| 7 weeks | $6410 |
| 8 weeks | $7260 |
| Each additional week | $850 |
What’s included:
- Pre departure support
- Project Information Pack
- Transfers from the airport/bus/train station to the project
- Accommodation
- Meals
- On the job training
- 24 hour in country support
- 24 hour O2E emergency phone
- Certificate of participation, if requested
*Please note some items are not included in the project fees listed above, such as flights, visas, vaccinations, travel insurance, snacks, spending money, local transport, in-country tours and return airport transfer (unless mentioned above). Please note that prices are subject to change without notice. Please ensure you have read the O2E Volunteers Terms and Conditions.
Gemma R.
United Kingdom
"The carers were incredibly warm and welcoming.
There are a variety of very very cute animals with
new arrivals all the time. I loved doing both the wild
animal care (mostly the non stop milk bottles!) and
also the bits around the farm. I had my own lovely
bedroom and we were fed like kings every night! "
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