Some of Australia’s most vulnerable species will be the stars of Oakvale Wildlife Park’s second annual Threatened Species Weekend at the end of the month.
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Following the overwhelming success of its first event last year, the Salt Ash wildlife park is going bigger in 2018 and will host a number of extra activities, talks and representatives from conservation groups on the weekend of September 29 and 30.
“It’s a weekend for us to spread awareness about the plight of our threatened species but also to have fun,” Oakvale curator Lachlan Gordon said.
“Last year was a huge success. It was our biggest event of the year.
“We wanted to make it an even greater success this year, which is why we decided to host it the first weekend of the school holiday.”
The park will observe a number of conservation events that occur in September each year during its Threatened Species Weekend.
These events include National Threatened Species Day (September 7), National Bilby Day (September 9), World Cassowary Day (September 26) and Save the Koala Month.
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To do this, Oakvale will host representatives from the Koala Preservation Society Australia, based at the Port Macquarie koala hospital, and the Australian Bilby Foundation.
Each is set to deliver a short presentation to park-goers across the weekend.
It is anticipated that a bilby will be brought along for attendees to see.
Other conservation groups that will guest speak across the weekend include Cedar Creek Wombat Rescue and Wildlife In Need Of Care (WINC).
There will also be a talk on the Tree Roo Rescue and Conservation Centre, based in Queensland.
The centre is a non-profit organisation that rescues and rehabilitates, orphaned or displaced Australian tree kangaroos.
Not just a weekend for talks, there will be roaming wildlife to meet, face painting, pony rides, art stalls, prizes and give aways.
Oakvale will also use the event to raise funds for its Save Our Wildlife campaign.
The campaign was established in 2017 to help conservation efforts for species that live at the farm, but also animals around the globe that are listed as threatened, vulnerable or endangered.