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Join our family of Echidna carers

NQ Wildlife Care runs courses throughout the year in Echidna care and rescue / become a member /take a course /grab the skills you need and start caring for our echidnas in your home

Being a carer is the most rewarding experience ever.

Becoming an Echidna carer

• Here at NQ Wildlife, we run carers courses as we like to give you the best chance of being the best carer you can be.
• Echidna species we have in Queensland is the Short Beaked Echidna
• The echidna is a spiny, ant-eating animal that lives in Australia and New Guinea.
• They are made to dig with sharp claws and sharp hair (their spines are actually their hair)
• They are egg-laying mammals!
• Slow moving with not good eyesight.
• Most echidna come into care after being hit by cars. So its human that are their biggest problem
• Most animals come off very poorly after an encounter with an adult echidna.
• Our Echidna course will give you the skills to handle these spiky little diggers and the knowledge to rehabilitate them so they can be released back into the wild.
• Echidna care is a speciality wildlife craft and you need special enclosures as they are diggers with great skills, and need to be kept really cool as well.
• You need a permit to rehabilitate echidna.
• This can be achieved by becoming a NQ Wildlife member doing our wildlife course and echidna care training’
• We look forward to having you join our Wildlife team of carers
• We rehabilitate to release!
  We give our wildlife the best possible chance of surviving once released back into the wild

For any information on rescuing/rehabilitating echidnas’ please call us at

NQ Wildlife Care on 0414 717 374

if you are interested in becoming a carer also please get in touch
we provide training, support and resources for our carers.