Annie Saunders
Chair
Capricorn/Gladstone
District 5

I reside on a small mixed fruit orchard in Calliope near Gladstone in Central Queensland.

My first interest in caring for wildlife came as a small child – much to my poor mother’s distress.  I often raised young lizards or rehabilitated injured birds, once bringing an injured Sooty Tern home in my school hat, from a High School science excursion to Caloundra.  During more recent years I have cared for birds, possums and macropods of many and varied sorts.  I am privileged to have been able to release from our property.  I have had the pleasure of being involved with the recovery team for the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat which allowed me the great joy of raising a Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat.

Early in 2003 I was invited to join the Steering Committee for the development of the Queensland Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (QWRC) to represent Central Queensland.  In August 2004 I was given the honour of being elected to the position of Chair of the QWRC and have been re-elected to that position.

Although I am currently not an active rehabilitator I am still passionate about wildlife rehabilitation.  Most of my time is taken up with the background work relating to establishing and running the peak body for wildlife rehabilitators in Queensland along with running our farm and a long arm quilting business.