Tiny but Wild
Dear you,
Alongside our artwork, as of 2024, we are Tiny but Wild, a licensed DEECA* wildlife shelter based, like our studio, in our home in North Fitzroy, Melbourne / Naarm.
After being foster carers for RSPCA Victoria (2017–2021), and Grey-headed flying-fox carers for Bat Rescue Bayside (2020–2023), and as current Wildlife Victoria rescuers and carers (2021–onwards), this next step perhaps seemed written-in-the-leaves inevitable.
To try to make change for the better, we care for Grey-headed flying foxes and ringtails, for the main, assorted microbats, and other surprises, like Bingo, the Dusky antechinus, and Peanut, the Bush rat, along the way; all wild and glorious creatures we can care for in our tiny setup with a view to release.
Yours, ever with an eye and ear on alert,
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
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* Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA)
Support
Inspired by working with South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter, as part of Tiny but Wild, we operate a soft release program for the ringtail possums in our care, with the Koala Clancy Foundation, and have been doing so since 2022.
We care for the ringtails for roughly six months, raising them from around 80 grams until they are 600+ grams ready. Working this way, we have the means to raise two groups of four ringtails per year.
The Koala Clancy Foundation plants trees for koalas on farms and private land, creates new habitat and advocates for better protection of wild koalas. Koala Clancy Foundation is an independent registered charity and not for profit organisation.
Every tree they plant is future habitat to save the koalas, and future habitat for ‘our’ ringies too.
Support
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Koala Clancy Foundation
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Make a donation
Tiny but Wild is not a registered charity so we cannot offer tax deductible receipts, but any donations to Tiny but Wild will go directly towards rehabilitating the wildlife in our care.
All wildlife care work is voluntary, so any help is immensely appreciated.
Donate via Bank Transfer (EFT)
Tiny but Wild
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
BSB 313140
Account number 12480524
Alternatively, wing us an email.
On Marginalia, you can read about our animals in care and follow their journey from rescue and rehabilitation to release.
Recently ‘Tiny’, now gloriously ‘Wild’
This Grey-headed flying fox pup season (2023–2024), we looked after 54 Grey-headed flying foxes (both orphaned pups and adults recovering from entanglement injuries).
For more Tiny but Wild ‘tails’, follow along to learn more of what we do for the environment, and what we can all do, because hope, hope is an action.
Together, the two of us, Gracia & Louise, are Tiny but Wild.
WILDLIFE SHELTER IN NORTH FITZROY, MELBOURNE / NAARM
Contact
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GRACIA HABY & LOUSE JENNISON: 041 21 444 72
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WILDLIFE VICTORIA: (03) 8400 7300
(Report a Wildlife Emergency)
WIRES: 1300 094 737
(Report a Wildlife Rescue)
WARRIORS 4 WILDLIFE: 1300 352 923
The best way you can help an injured animal is to call for professional help. Big or small, any bat alone during the day needs help.
Please note: you need to be a qualified, vaccinated carer to handle bats.
Copyright © 2000–2024 Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison. All rights reserved.
Accessibility statement
Site built and polished by Gracia & Louise.
Hand-coloured lithographs by Fanny Anne Charsley from
The wildflowers around Melbourne series, 1867,
We are visitors living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders both past and present. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.
We are visitors living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders both past and present. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.
