WA Wildlife Training Hub

Anna joined WA Wildlife (then Native ARC) in 2015 after completing her First Class Honours degree in history. Before changing to her history degree, she started her university career in computer science. She has spent some time working at a small animal practice as first a kennel hand and later a nurses assistant. At WA Wildlife (then Native ARC) she was a hospital volunteer and supervisor for several years and was involved in training many other volunteers and working closely with the vets before joining the staff at the end of 2020. She now works on a variety of projects for WA Wildlife alongside continuing to care for patients in off site rehabilitation, where she specialises in hatchling and nestling parrots.

Claire Trevenen holds a PhD in Literary & Cultural Studies from Curtin University. She worked in the tertiary sector as an Associate Lecturer and Research Assistant at Murdoch, Curtin, ECU, and Griffith University for thirteen years until her work with animals took precedence. In 2019, she began volunteering at WA Wildlife and soon became a Recovery Ward supervisor. From there, she took animals offsite for rehabilitation, became the Offsite Rehabilitation Coordinator, and helped to develop the training material for the Recovery Ward, writing the Isolation section. Claire assists on the practical training sessions— teaching handling, tubing, and subcutaneous injections. She also assists with rural training in Wildlife First Aid, and recently took over the training at WA Wildlife for administering subcutaneous fluids. She continues to run her own shift on Saturday evenings with a colourful, competent crew, and she always has animals offsite—at the time of writing, her home was occupied by five galahs and four pigeons.