Help Kaarakin get their Water & Power back on

Kaarakin Black cockatoo conservation centre is a not for profit organization dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating injured and sick native black cockatoos. Being the only facility dedicated to the conservation and rehabilitation of black cockatoos in western Australia we have a large influx of birds entering our care on a daily basis.

As it stands there are over 150 birds onsite some that are in the rehabilitation process and are waiting to be released back into the wild, aswell as black cockatoos who are unable to be released and are permanent residents here at Kaarakin. These birds along with the other native animals we have onsite such as our Dingoes, emus, & Kangaroos allow us to be able to educate the public on native wildlife and give them an insight to the decline of our endemic and endangered Baudins black cockatoo, Carnabys black cockatoo & our subspecies of Redtail black cockatoo "Calyptorhyncus banksii naso" which are classified as vulnerable.

With Perths recent wild weather we have had extensive damage to our 41 acre site. On Sunday night the we had a large marri branch fall down onto our main power line which supplies the power to everywhere on site. This means we have no power and no water . The damage was so extensive that it is going to take a week to fix and cost Kaarakin at least $7500 to repair. Kaarakin costs around $250,000 a year to run, and being a not for profit organization that's not government funded, we rely heavily on the help of our volunteers, donations, tours and education events to be able to keep the place running.

We have been lucky enough to have some wonderful volunteers who have lent us generators to use so that our birds can have heat on to help their recovery, our dingo food does not all expire and go to waste and for our caretaker to be able to have some sort of power to his house. Our phones, computers and toilets are all are out of action and our fridge that holds our birds fruit and veg as well as medications is currently out of action aswell. We are still have a massive amount of outgoing money to cover the fuel to run these generators so we are running at a loss.

Any small donations would be greatly appreciated to be able to pay for the repairs and get everything back up and running again to continue giving our animals the best quality care and our volunteers the best experience possible.

Kloe Balsley Volunteer & site coordinator at Kaarakin will be managing donation withdrawals and forwarding them on to Kaarakin Black cockatoo conservation centre