Wildlife Volunteers
Mandurah Wildlife Rehabilitation is completely reliant on our volunteers who make the centre function. Volunteering at the Mandurah Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is a rewarding and enriching experience.
Your time at the center can be tailored to fit your schedule and needs, with no prior experience or knowledge required. Along with helping care for our animals, you'll have the chance to learn about our unique wildlife—what they eat, how they live, and ways to transform your garden into a sanctuary for native species.
We also have many other volunteer roles available. Explore the options below to find a role where you can make a meaningful impact on our native wildlife.
Volunteer Positions
Animal Care & Treatment
Become a wildlife carer and learn the joys of providing one to one care to those in need.
The Centre operates 14 shifts each week, with a morning and an afternoon shift every day. Most volunteers choose to participate in one shift per week.
Each shift team consists of a supervisor and 3 to 4 volunteers. The team is responsible for feeding the animals, monitoring their health progress, and maintaining cleanliness throughout the Centre.
The supervisor leads the team, assigns tasks, and possesses the expertise required to diagnose and treat the animals.
Volunteers receive on-the-job training, from the orientation team through to the supervisors, as also have the opportunity to participate in specialized training sessions
Non-Animal Handling Wildlife Volunteer Opportunities
If the direct contact with animals is not your thing, but you would still like to be part of the team, then cleaning, food preparation and laundry might be something for you.
A large part of any shift is made up of cleaning floors, attending to laundry, preparing animal food and cleaning cages.
Your assistance by helping with cleaning, food preparation and laundry means wildlife carers have more time to take care of more animals.
Habitat Enrichment Volunteer
A vital part of our work is to maintain an enriched environment for our animals through ongoing placement of browse into all of our enclosures.
Browse refers to native flowers, leaves, twigs and branches and are essential for providing a safe and nurturing environment for wildlife, as well as a vital food source.
Become an Enrichment volunteer and assist in maintaining fresh browse in our outdoor aviaries and indoor specialist enclosures.
Enjoy the outdoors whilst working up close and personal to our wildlife, and collecting browse from adjacent bush surrounds during the seasonal periods
Gardening and Grounds Volunteer
Do you love outdoor work? Why not join our team responsible for maintaining our gardens and surrounds.
Whether it be planting, pruning and caring for plants, weeding and raking of gardens, vegetable garden care, or tidying and sweeping around our centre, there is something for everyone.
Join our small team and reap the rewards of helping us to showcase our Centre.
There is always something that needs to be built or repaired at the Centre. We do get regular assistance from our Sponsor Alcoa and local businesses often do work for free, but many repairs are done in-house.
The Mandurah Wildlife Centre has a small team of very able volunteers who do a tremendous job keeping things together, but they can always use an extra hand.
Transport
Contribute by assisting to take wildlife to and from vet clinics.
This is an important activity.
By joining our Transport team, you will be providing a valuable service that means our animals get the best specialised service available.
Got some spare time and are willing to help out if you are free when called up?
Join us!
Wildlife Marketing & Social Media Volunteer
Our marketing team is responsible for the website, newsletter and social media. It also comes up with specific campaigns to increase fundraising and increase awareness. Have a look at the "Stories" on this website, to see some examples of what they do.
The team is in need of 2 or 3 volunteers who wish to help with the building of relationships with stakeholders, finding sponsors and educating the public about native wildlife.
We will be happy to have a conversation with anyone who would like to join our marketing efforts.
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Other Options to Volunteer at Mandurah Wildlife
There are more options to volunteer at the Mandurah Wildlife Centre, as you can see in the registration form below. Every volunteer at the Wildlife Centre helps our native wildlife thrive in their own way. All together we can make a difference,
We warmly invite you to attend one of our induction meetings, where you can experience first hand what it means to be a part of our volunteer team.
We look forward to meeting you soon!
Join our team today!
From May 2026 to the end of July 2026, we will not be able to accept expressions of interest for volunteers that would like to work work with the animals directly.
However, there are many other jobs and roles that you can do to help out at the Wildlife Centre.