The day of the wombat
By:Amy Middleton
| October-22-2009
This is how we're celebrating one of our favourite critters...
Yango (Photo: Kylie Piper)
Wombat Day is this week (22 Oct)... and we've got a celebration planned.
Society Administrator Kylie is heading up to Cedar Creek Wombat Rescue in the Hunter Valley, to deliver some much-deserved support for the plight of the noble wombat.
The Society ran a wombat fundraiser from April to June of this year, and we're thrilled to hand over in excess of $15,000 raised, to the wombat cause.
We already know that some of the funding will help build a release enclosure in Victoria, allowing rehabilitated wombats a safe probationary period before they head out into the Aussie bush.
Pictured is wombat orphan Yango, just one of the infants nursed back to health by the Cedar Creek organisation.
A big thanks to everyone who donated (that's on behalf of the wombats, too) and, to continue to help protect and preserve Australia's wildlife, please visit
Society donations.
Happy Wombat Day!
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